Hillhead High School is a day school in Glasgow, Scotland, on Oakfield Avenue, neighbouring the University of Glasgow. Admissions It is one of the largest schools in Glasgow. History Grammar school Until 1972 it was a co-educational selective school. It then became a comprehensive school. Comprehensive In 1972 the local authority in Glasgow abolished the selectivity process and the school gradually became a comprehensive school serving its geographical catchment area of Glasgow's West End, and serving many pupils from wider afield who had attended the primary school. Former teachers Colin Campbell, SNP MSP from 1999 to 2003 for West of Scotland (taught from 1961 to 1963) School facilities The school has two buildings, the Main Building and the Terrace Building. It also uses the nearby Wellington Church for mass assemblies at October, Christmas, Easter and Summer. The X-shaped listed Main Building, acquired in the 1930s, is the larger of the two buildings, and is where most pupils begin their studies. Most of the school's classrooms and offices are situated on its four floors. Also in the Main Building is the library, where a career and exam advisor makes biweekly appearances. The main building was designed by E G Wylie in 1921, and construction finished in 1929. It is now protected as a category B listed building. Originally owned by the University of Glasgow, the Terrace Building was acquired by Hillhead in c.2001. This building is used primarily for applied studies. Notable former pupils Don Arrol, Glaswegian comedian and presenter of Sunday Night at the London Palladium in the early sixties Stanley Baxter, Glaswegian actor Menzies Campbell, former leader of the Liberal Democrats Kari Corbett, actress Prof Gordon Younger Craig, FRSE, geologist, James Hutton Professor of Geology 1967–84 University of Edinburgh, founder trustee of Our Dynamic Earth Prof Jack D. Dunitz, Professor of Chemical Crystallography from 1957 to 1990 at ETH Zurich, and known for the Bürgi–Dunitz angle Ian Dunn (d. 1998), gay and paedophile rights activist, founder of the Scottish Minorities Group Sir Alastair Dunnett, journalist and newspaper editor, Editor from 1956 to 1972 of The Scotsman, and from 1946 to 1955 of the Daily Record Islam Feruz, first footballer to play for Scotland under the school qualification rule Alexander Fleck, 1st Baron Fleck, chairman from 1953 to 1960 of ICI Laura Fraser, actress Janice Hally, playwright and scriptwriter Gilbert Highet, Anthon Professor of the Latin Language and Literature from