'Universities should merge' urges rector

ABERDEEN and Robert Gordon Universities should merge, according to Aberdeen's rector.

Comic actor Steven Robertson, who replaced Green MSP Robin Harper as rector in 2008, called for the move to create a stronger university.

At a meeting of the cross-party universities group at the Scottish Parliament yesterday, he said it did not make sense for each to have their own law school. And he said that if Aberdeen aspired to be in the top 100 universities in the world it needed to offer all subjects including architecture, at which RGU excels.