Education
Haldane attended Hamilton Park School, John Ogilvie Hall Preparatory School and St. Aloysius' College, Glasgow. Later, he studied at the Kent Institute of Art & Design in Rochester, Kent, and the Wimbledon School of Art in London for a BA in Fine Art in 1975.
He received a BA in Philosophy from Birkbeck College, of the University of London in 1980; a PGCE from the London University Institute of Education in 1976, and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of London in 1984. He holds honorary degrees from Saint Anselm College, New Hampshire, USA and from the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He was named one of Scotland's 'Brights' in a list of the 50 top Scottish intellectuals, artists, lawyers, scientists, etc. (Herald Magazine, 2001).
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