This week, Glasgow City Council has moved to put some distance between itself and the toxic licence legislation changes due to come into force on April 1st. Unveiled just last week, the proposed changes would effectively criminalize the city’s grassroots arts culture and D.I.Y music ethos. For those who haven’t got caught up in the [...]
The Queen Margaret Union will install some gender-neutral toilets after a request from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Society. The Union plans to convert the existing third-floor bathrooms into a unisex toilet. It would have no urinals and would make the existing men’s showers, said to be the better showers, on that floor [...]
Part 1: it will be “MyCampus, but not as we know it” The issues which made the implementation of MyCampus almost farcical when it launched in September should be resolved by the beginning of the next academic year, according to the university’s vice principal of learning and teaching, Frank Coton. Part 2: staff feedback to [...]
The issues which made the implementation of MyCampus almost farcical when it launched in September should be resolved by the beginning of the next academic year, according to the university’s vice principal of learning and teaching, Frank Coton. Coton, who was speaking at the principal’s ‘question time’, said that next year MyCampus would return but [...]
In a move to “protect the organisation”, former Glasgow University SRC president Stuart Ritchie is set to receive a resignation pay-off of nearly four thousand pounds. This payment was agreed upon before he tendered his resignation. The payment comes despite a resignation that concluded a divisive term of office [see “the story so far” graphic [...]
Monday’s open meeting with the Principal was a marked improvement for Anton Muscatelli, with only one call for his resignation. In stark contrast to the packed meeting in March, around 30 students turned out to put their questions to Principal Anton Muscatelli, and Vice Principals Andrea Nolan and Frank Coton. Students were asked to submit [...]
Recent investigations by the Glasgow Guardian have revealed A1 Outsource, a company based in Glasgow, has been falsely advertising management training schemes targeted towards graduates who have found themselves unemployed. The scam is designed to get as much free or cheap labour as possible for the company through offering an impressive resume of represented companies, [...]
Stuart Ritchie, President of the Glasgow University SRC resigned on 2nd November following revelations in qmunicate magazine [1] and the Glasgow Guardian [2] [3] about his conduct. A press release [4] from the remaining executive members states that they had unanimously asked Stuart Ritchie to tender his resignation. Following this, the Glasgow Guardian asked a [...]
President of the Glasgow University Students’ Representative Council, Stuart Ritchie, is again the subject of controversy surrounding his relationship with the university and his colleagues at the SRC. Emails released on 28th October by qmunicate magazine show that Ritchie argued on internal committees for a higher rate of fees for students. National Union of Students [...]
An email circulated around the School of Modern Languages and Cultures (SMLC) on behalf of John Macklin, Head of School, has revealed that the school has decided to suspend the postgraduate diplomas in Russian, Czech and Polish, despite the University Court’s statement in June that “the SMLC should maintain the teaching of the full current [...]
