5th November 2015
On Friday evening, the Guardian caught up with Glasgow’s world Muay Thai champion Keith Mclachlan. The Super Featherweight is currently ranked number one in the UK, a feat even more impressive considering he only took up the sport at the late age of 25. The Maryhill-based fighter’s 10 year fighting has brought success after success. ...
5th November 2015
Susan Park Writer The Independent recently published an article highlighting that, according to research group Atos, the 13th of October is the day when the largest number of University students travel home. They collected this data by looking at the use of 16-25 railcards registered by people from non-University towns. The general consensus is that ...
5th November 2015
Lindsay Middleton Writer Unless you have been hiding under a huge rock, you will have noticed how popular baking has become over the past few years. This is no longer a pastime reserved for grannies, cosy mums or home economics classrooms. Baking, alongside healthy eating, thick-rimmed glasses and bone-broth is undeniably cool again, and a ...
5th November 2015
Tess Milligan Writer For months, there has been a lot of hype about the release of Spectre, which was always going to be the case when you take into account that it may be Daniel Craig’s last film playing the legend that is Bond… James Bond. The opening of the film really puts the viewer ...
5th November 2015
Peter Silke Writer We are surely in the midst of a Golden Age of TV – the second Golden Age if you include the period of live TV dramas from the late ‘40s until the advent of videotape in 1956. It doesn’t take an academic to attribute the start of the modern age to the ...
5th November 2015
Rhys Harper Online Editor A campaign co-founded by a Glasgow University student have taken their petition for improvements to be made to tackle LGBTI+ bullying in Scottish schools in front of the Scottish Parliament. Jordan Daly, a third year Sociology student, started the TIE (Time for Inclusive Education) campaign with his friend Liam Stevenson to ...
5th November 2015
Annina Claesson Writer In June this year, all Japanese national universities received a shocking note from the education minister Hakubun Shimomura: either axe their humanities and social sciences departments or convert them into programmes that “better meet society’s needs”. This, of course, meant natural sciences and engineering courses. Not even law, economics or teaching training ...
