6th February 2015
Gina Mete News Editor The University of Glasgow has agreed to name more of its buildings after women and academics from other marginalised groups, following lobbying by the Students’ Representative Council (SRC). The “Patriarchitecture” campaign saw the SRC urge the University’s senior management, the Equality and Diversity Strategy Committee (EDSC) and the Estates Committee to ...
6th February 2015
Hannah McNeil Deputy Editor Glasgow University has expressed serious concern over new measures the UK government is introducing to prevent people from developing “extremist” beliefs at university. The University, among other groups, fear that this bill will curtail the right to freedom of speech. The government has introduced a counter-terrorism and security bill which has ...
6th February 2015
Catherine Vallis Writer You are probably not registered to vote. Last year the government changed the registration process to ‘a voting system fit for the 21st century’ so that rather than one person registering everyone in their household to vote, each person has to register themselves individually. This is perfectly fine if you are a ...
6th February 2015
FOR Chris McLaughlin Writer Some people don’t like the fact that newspapers have named the driver whose collapse at the wheel of a bin lorry lead to the deaths of six pedestrians in Glasgow in December. However what they like or don’t like counts for nothing, so tough. I was actually very tempted to end ...
6th February 2015
Fraser McGowan Deputy News Editor A “critical situation” has arisen in relation to the accommodation of class tests, according to a working group established by the Learning and Teaching Committee of the University Senate. The Class Test Accommodation Working Group reported that the Bute and Hunter Halls could “no longer be considered prime space for ...
6th February 2015
Keir Watt Writer The University of Glasgow has launched a £15 million gene sequencing project in partnership with the University of Edinburgh and Illumina, a world leader in sequencing and genomics. The project will install fifteen HiSeq X sequencing instruments divided between both universities. The HiSeq X, created by Illumina, is the most powerful sequencing ...
6th February 2015
Scott Wilson Writer A report by the Selecting for Excellence project group has found that fifty per cent of schools and colleges in the UK did not provide any applicants to study medicine at British universities in the last three years. Half of those who applied to study medicine attended a private or grammar school, ...
6th February 2015
Robyn Bell Writer Research carried out at the University of Glasgow has been judged to be among the best in Scotland and the UK, in a report published by the Research Excellence Framework. The findings of the report, published on 18 December 2014, demonstrate that the University has not only maintained its reputation for excellence ...
6th February 2015
Eilis Slater and Gina Mete Writer & News Editor Second year psychology students are suffering the consequences of overcrowding in lectures, and are facing higher academic expectations because the University’s Admissions Department has taken in more students than in previous years. The large intake of students has resulted in lectures being split in two and ...
6th February 2015
Fraser McGowan Deputy News Editor The Council of Senate at the University of Glasgow has submitted a response paper to the Scottish Government’s consultation on the Higher Education Governance Bill, in which it outlines a number of objections to the proposals made by the Scottish Government in relation to the reform of higher education governance ...
