2nd March 2009
James Porteous The number of unopposed and vacant positions, in all but one of the current student elections, is a damning indictment of the level of student participation at Glasgow University, and the entire electoral process that serves to fill the numerous positions. As a result of various technical and apathetic reasons, two of the ...
2nd March 2009
As the part privatisation of Royal Mail is announced, James Maxwell explores the ideological chaos at the heart of the British Labour Party During the 1990s, the Labour Party quietly abandoned the language of the old left and adopted a less politically-loaded vocabulary. References to the ‘working-classes’ vanished and ministers began talking instead of ‘hard-working ...
2nd March 2009
Tom Bonnick investigates the murky waters of the organisations self-appointed to police the Internet for us There are few superlatives yet to be utilised in description of the Internet’s mind-boggling capacities. It is the world’s largest communication platform; the greatest tool for creative freedom for some, and creativity’s greatest threat to others. It is, according ...
2nd March 2009
In a country that feels constantly under attack, what progress can peace make? Chris Watt heads to Israel to investigate teenage conscription and militaristic attitudes in the region Sixteen-year-old Asher is tring to grow a moustache, but he’s not doing a very good job. At his stage of life you might expect him to have ...
2nd March 2009
George Binning hunts down the controversial James Cruickshank, editor of Glasgow’s infamous Digger magazine Imagine a publication with such relentless and detailed crime reportage that even the most scandalous tabloid journalists turn their backs in disgust. Imagine this magazine’s editor retreating underground and working from a secret office to evade the death threats he receives ...
2nd March 2009
As Bolivia celebrates its cultural identity, Robin Perkins travels to Latin America to witness one of the world’s most intriguing carnivals Bolivia may well be known for its lofty peaks, its indigenous population and its position as Latin America’s second landlocked country, however, what most people do not realise is that it is also home ...
2nd March 2009
Ishbel Begg In a landmark initiative, over a quarter of a million people have been recruited for UK Biobank, the world’s largest medical study. The multi-million pound project aims to provide the biggest bank of health information ever collected, so as to provide future researchers with data that can be used to identify links between ...
2nd March 2009
Craig McLellan The University of Glasgow’s Department of Urban Studies won two prizes at the recent Royal Town Planning Institute annual awards. The department, which launched a planning school in 2006, won an award for excellence in planning education. The planning school offers an MSc programme in real estate, planning and regeneration, which comprises five ...
2nd March 2009
Amy MacGregor The University of Glasgow will collaborate with Stanford University and the Caltech Institute in a £1.6 million project to investigate the commercial opportunities in the study of photonics. The collaborative programme, funded by the Science Bridges award from Research Councils UK, will see the Universities of Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, Strathclyde and St. Andrew’s work ...
2nd March 2009
Ishbel Begg The Right Hon. Charles Kennedy MP, last week launched this year’s Glasgow University Talent Scholarship drive. Designed to aid students who could face financial difficulties in taking up their place to study at Glasgow, fifty scholarships worth £1000 are being awarded each year. Mr. Kennedy, the current University rector, delivered the awards to ...
