26th November 2014
Chris McLaughlin Writer In October, a resolution was brought before the National (sic) Union of Students seeking to condemn ISIS and offering support to the Peshmerga Kurdish fighters in eastern Turkey facing them down. What could possibly be less controversial? After all, everyone condemns ISIS, don’t they? Well not the NUS, who rejected the proposal. ...
26th November 2014
Lee Marsden Writer While I was President of the Model UN society, I was accused of promoting the genocide of the Palestinian people, for doing the same thing that GUES and the Dialectic Society did last week – we dared to host a debate with Israel having a voice. The complaints about our Israel-Palestine ...
26th November 2014
Sam Wigglesworth & Tess Milligan News Editor & Writer It was released at the end of October that debt for Scottish students had risen by 69% for the last academic year, with reported figures as high as £430 million. This is the highest the figure has ever been for Scottish student borrowing. It is largely ...
26th November 2014
Murdo Croll Writer The Glasgow Guardian has received several reports from students frustrated by issues with MyCampus over the course of the current academic semester. The University’s online administrative system, with which every current student will be intimately familiar, has been blamed by some for randomly un-enrolling them from courses. This has lead to academic ...
26th November 2014
Nathan Stilwell Writer Last year nearly 150 Glasgow University students were forced into unfinished accommodation in the East End, because of an oversubscription of halls allocation. Due to the large number of new students needing housing, the majority were made to share rooms and sleep in bunk beds. Students had to live with faulty and ...
26th November 2014
Matthew Sharpe Writer Religious figures in Scotland are expressing concerns about the ‘secularisation of society’, following the news that the Humanist Society Scotland ...
26th November 2014
Louisa Kuehme Writer The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS), Scotland’s largest educational trade union recently found that Scotland’s university lecturers face heavy workload pressures, high levels of work-related stress and are concerned about management and leadership in their institution. The analysis by the EIS found that 70% of higher education (HE) staff would classify themselves ...
26th November 2014
Theodora Varelidi-Strati & Alastair Thomas Writer & Deputy News Editor Leading academics from the University of Glasgow have spoken out against the safety regulations for fracking in the UK. Dr. Rob Westaway and Professor Paul Younger from Glasgow’s School of Engineering recently published a report in the Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, calling for ...
26th November 2014
Aidan Kerr Writer A team of University of Glasgow researchers have completed a successful science outreach project, which brought science to over 6,500 Glaswegians in some of the city’s most deprived neighbourhoods. The Scottish Government’s “Talking Science” grant of £25,000 enabled the University’s Community Led Ambassadors Network (CLAN) to deliver free workshops and other events ...
26th November 2014
Chloë Bell & Tsveta Rafaylova Writers The Glasgow Guardian has discovered that the University of Glasgow falls short of the von Prondzynski recommendation that university governing bodies should have a minimum of 40% female representation. In 2011, Professor Ferdinand von Prondzynski, principal of Robert Gordon University recommended that each of the governing bodies at university ...
