7th February 2013
Hannah McNeill & Claire Diamond The library at Glasgow University made over £90,000 in library fines between September 2011 and December 2012. Only 3.8% of this money was used to replace lost books. This statistic has come to light after a Guardian (The important national one. Not us – Ed) investigation revealed that 101 of ...
7th February 2013
Sam Wigglesworth The Student’s Representative Council (SRC), in December, took a vote to sign a petition which aimed to remove The Sun‘s page 3. The campaign is run through the website change.org, and is asking Dominic Moran to “drop the bare boobs” from The Sun newspaper and to “stop showing pictures of young women in Britain’s most widely ...
7th February 2013
Bethany Robb Car parts and bike retailer Halfords has struck a deal with the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) to become the first private sector organisation to host cost-effective, practical driving tests, with a hope to carry out said tests on university campuses. Young drivers and students are increasingly frustrated with the long waiting lists for ...
7th February 2013
Louise Wilson Strathclyde police have once more issued a warning to those using cash machines in the West End, following evidence of various machines being tampered with. A student from Glasgow University recently contacted the SRC after a cash machine they had tried to use had devices attached to it. An iPod had been set ...
7th February 2013
Bethany Robb Kathryn Stevenson Recent research has revealed that using social networking websites could be detrimental to graduate job prospects if ‘inappropriate’ photographs appear on pages, with the infiltration of potential employers to the media realm. One in five bosses have dismissed an applicant because graduates have displayed drunken photos on their social media profiles. ...
7th February 2013
Tuula Ritakari Graduate employment is expected to rise in 2013, claims High Fliers Research. Their recently published study found that 48% of graduate employers in Scotland have entry-level jobs available. Overall the availability of UK graduate jobs is anticipated to rise by 2.7%. Scotland has the second highest amount of graduate jobs in the UK. ...
7th February 2013
Oscar Peake Jeanine Raw A marine biology research and education station in Scotland used by many Universities has had it’s annual government funding removed, and is likely to close at the end of the month – generating much protest from academics and others alike. The University Marine Biology Station Millport (UMBSM), located in Millport on ...
7th February 2013
Oliver Milne The £67,000 of the University’s block grant to the Queen Margaret Union, which had been suspended by the University Court’s Student Finance Sub-Committee, has been reinstated and will arrive with the £90,000 which is due this month. The reversal of the original decision – which was made on the Tuesday of Freshers’ Week ...
