16th March 2013
Imants Latkovskis Having worked as a charity fundraiser is like having worked in porn. It almost necessarily involves saying “I was young, naive, and needed the money,” which was my case exactly. Chuggers (charity muggers), the cheerful people in bright jackets that have become almost unavoidable on high streets and doorsteps, do get a lot ...
16th March 2013
Frances Bell Whatever your thoughts on the No More Page 3 campaign, you’ve got to admit that it’s been pretty impressive. Started by self-identified ‘non-campaigner’ Lucy-Anne Holmes last September, the original petition has gained worldwide attention, sparked extensive debate in the UK media and achieved over 63,000 signatures – of which the SRC is one ...
16th March 2013
Chris Sibbald The Daily Mail’s coverage of the Glasgow University Pole Dancing Society reminded me of a Twitter exchange I had with the SRC and its President at the end of 2012. On the 7th November, Mr. Harrison triumphantly announced to his followers that on behalf of the SRC, and the students of the University of ...
16th March 2013
Prof Mike Barrett Roy Mwenechanya Roy Mwenechanya, a University of Glasgow PhD student within the Wellcome Trust Centre, is one of 10 children, born in the copper mining town of Kitwe around 400km north of the Zambian capital, Lusaka. As a child, Roy, like others in his class was taught about Dr Livingstone, the Scottish ...
16th March 2013
Sam Wigglesworth Louise Wilson The University of Glasgow has received only a 1.3% increase in funding for teaching and research from the Scottish Funding Council (SFC), 1.9% down from the Scottish average. Similar gaps in funding between the Scottish average and the other ancient universities of Scotland, such as Edinburgh, St Andrews and Stirling, have ...
16th March 2013
Clare Saltiel Returning to my flat after being at home for Christmas is always difficult; after home cooking and seemingly unlimited central heating, the prospect of dealing with my dodgy boiler seems particularly unpleasant. We may be poor students, roughing out Glasgow’s winter months (pretty much October to March) in flats with single glazing, with ...
16th March 2013
Hannah McNeill 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 the UK’s universities, ...
