7th December 2021
The first instalment of our new series explores the stereotype of Australia as a “perfect vacationland”, a gross contradiction of the terrors of its history that are still active today. I’m sure I’m not the only Australian that frequently gets asked why I’d ever want to live in the UK when I could be back ...
7th December 2021
Should we let Gaelic lie in its grave with Latin and Greek? Or should we do our best to keep it alive in Scottish culture? On 7 March 2021, 93-year-old Vera Timoshenko passed away in the Kamchatka Krai region of Russia. In her, Bering Aleut – a dialect of Eskimo-Aleut – lost not only its ...
7th December 2021
With the Scottish government trialing a four-day work week, Basilia Weir examines how this will benefit students. I really like this whole “I don’t dream of labour” movement going on right now. Not long into my time at university, I got into a tailspin about my future. It’s not that I didn’t know what I ...
7th December 2021
Views Columnist Alisha explores the chaos of concerts, and how this madness can be better contained. Concertgoers tragically succumbed to injuries sustained at the Astroworld music festival in Houston, Texas, with 10 people dying in total. Recently, the BBC reported that a nine-year-old boy had passed away from injuries that resulted from the massive crowd ...
7th December 2021
The “Fibre before the Fibre” project aims to bridge the educational inequalities caused by lack of access to the internet highlighted by the pandemic. A new collaborative initiative seeks to bridge the digital divide in access to online educational resources exposed by the Covid-19 pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa. The “Fibre before the Fibre Project” is a ...
7th December 2021
The new company, established just last year, has won the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Colin Campbell Mitchell Award. University of Glasgow spinout Vector Photonics has been awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Colin Campbell Mitchell Award in a ceremony at the Academy’s Enterprise Showcase on 16 November. Named in honour of one of Scotland’s most ...
7th December 2021
Launched in collaboration with alcohol awareness week, the campaign aims to help students struggling with their relationship to drugs and alcohol. The University of Glasgow Student Representative Council (SRC) is developing a harm reduction campaign centred around drug and alcohol use. The harm reduction campaign was launched in collaboration with alcohol awareness week, which was ...
