The Scottish higher education system gave its model to the United States, Canada, Australia and elsewhere: today, university provision in the United States is truer to the history of Scottish higher education than Scotland is itself, both in its generalism and in the provision of professional subjects such as law as a second rather than a first degree. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when Scotland enjoyed a lead through the development of its native higher education tradition rather than being a ruletaker from an increasingly centralized British system, its strong focus on links
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