23rd February 2021
As of 6 April, people will need to have an annual salary of at least £25,000 to begin repaying their student loans in Scotland. The Scottish government is set to increase the earnings threshold for people paying back their student loans this year. Introduced as part of a new repayment plan for people in Scotland ...
23rd February 2021
University states it expects students to follow the rules and will use “disciplinary measures when necessary”. Data released by Police Scotland reveals that the West End has had the most police callouts and penalties for house parties in Scotland. Between 28 August 2020, when the police were first given the power to break up parties, ...
23rd February 2021
Gay sex deserves to be treated as frankly as straight in modern media. During the pandemic, streaming services have provided us with an opportunity to escape the monotony of our daily lives at home, taking us on socially distanced adventures from our living rooms. When casual dating is limited to a socially-distanced walk in Kelvingrove ...
23rd February 2021
Dental students will be subsidised with a bursary of up to £6,750 to cover the costs of this decision. All Scottish dental students will be forced to repeat a year of their studies because of the interruption of practical teaching due to Covid-19. This affects all dental students at the universities of Glasgow, Dundee, and ...
23rd February 2021
Ahead of Milan fashion week, Olivia Marrins details what it will look like on-screen. As nearly every social event is rescheduled, cancelled, or taken to Zoom, it is no surprise that Milan fashion week has traded up bustling live venues for digital runways. This fashion exhibition showcases autumn/winter 2021/2022 collections across January and February through ...
22nd February 2021
Examining why this legislation would be problematic. Over the past year, the Western world has seen many examine the sentiment and impact of statues in our societies. How we define, display and recite our heritage has thankfully taken on new significance, especially in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement. However, despite the criticism ...
22nd February 2021
The Emperor has never looked so good. From literary retellings to stage adaptations, from art and cinema to poetry and metaphor; the one collection of stories to which the western tradition is perhaps most indebted is Greek mythology. Stories of gods and heroes told millennia ago still echo strongly in the popular culture of today. ...
22nd February 2021
From Spotify to Soundcloud, writer Joe Evans wonders if there is any platform available for musicians to share their music free of exploitation. Does anyone remember when Taylor Swift removed her entire catalogue from Spotify in 2014? Don’t worry if you had forgotten, her three-year stand against the pathetic rates Spotify pays artists ended after ...
18th February 2021
Theatre-lovers reminisce of happy times and the importance of theatre, hopeful to return to the buzz of the box office queue soon. What a year it’s been. From fighting forest fires to combatting a pandemic, we’ve all faced adversity. Yet there’s one group that’s been ignored in this pandemic; a group we turn to time ...
18th February 2021
Taking a look at the Covid-19 passport debate. In the chaos of the past year, the extensive outcomes of the Covid-19 pandemic have somehow simultaneously brought humanity together and divided us as we’ve been forced to face the contingent dangers of our frailty. As we seem to be reaching the hopeful horizon of widespread vaccinations, ...
