12th April 2016
Ben Henderson Writer It’s no big secret, we’re all living in an ever more commercial society. The dividing line between the public and the private sector is becoming ever more blurred as the invisible hand is scooping up wider and wider parts of what were once untouchable cornerstones of our state. The National Health Service, ...
12th April 2016
Aileen Booth Writer Buzzcut is an artist led theatre festival which began its life in the winter of 2011. Each year over 50 performers descend upon the Govan area of Glasgow for five days of affordable food, drink, and most predominantly, entertainment. Performers travel from any number of different locations and range from amateurs to ...
11th April 2016
Lauren Holt News Editor Glasgow University are allowing students to bring their children into the university library. Susan Ashworth, a University Librarian, confirmed the stance of the University library to Elliot Napier, the SRC Age Equality Officer. Napier believes this is a positive step in making student parents’ lives easier. “We’re really pleased that the ...
11th April 2016
Fraser McGowan Editor The University of Glasgow has taken possession of the former Western Infirmary site, which will enable the £1 billion expansion of the Gilmorehill campus over the next decade. The University’s plans for the Western site include the creation of a Research and Innovation Hub; new buildings for social sciences, the Institute ...
10th April 2016
Rhys Harper Online Editor In the dusk of last year, the coughing, wheezing music industry – that is to say its surviving, thinned-down record companies and young bloggers pitched up in squalor, were rocked in a way few imagined still possible in this digital, post-iTunes age. As you, your mum and your Luddite uncle know ...
8th April 2016
Nathan Stilwell News Editor The Mathematics and Statistics Building will be demolished in December to allow for the construction of the planned Learning and Teaching Hub. Plans are underway to relocate students to a temporary teaching space that will replace the eight lecture theatres currently located in the Maths building. Staff and students have raised ...
6th April 2016
Anna Mackenzie Writer According to a recent study by High Fliers Research, the number of graduate vacancies available to students is at a high, but roles are increasingly left unfilled because students are becoming too picky to accept them. In its annual Graduate Market study, High Fliers found that among the UK’s top 100 employers, ...
5th April 2016
The Glasgow Guardian spoke to two students staying in Murano Student Village to see if they thought living in student halls proved to be value for money. Alisha Toner: “I would say some of the recently refurbished flats and rooms with double beds are probably worth it but, for our flat, £480 is definitely overpaying ...
5th April 2016
Fraser McGowan & Alastair Thomas Editors It is hardly surprising, in an era in which higher education has become so commercialised that even Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary would blush to think that the amount students are asked to pay for the privilege of living in student halls has more than doubled since 2002. Inflation has ...
4th April 2016
Alastair Thomas Editor Students attending the University in September will be paying £113 a week (£480 a month) to stay in Murano Street Student Village or Cairncross House. This is now double the price of the halls from 2002, when a single room cost £56 a week. The price of the University of Glasgow’s student ...
