21st February 2023
An investigation by The Glasgow Guardian has found that staff at the University have repeatedly broken the expenses policy. Examination of 30,000 separate expense claims in the academic year 21/22 show over 300 filings of subsistence claims exceeding the daily limit, an £8,000 Airbnb and lavish business lunches with no record of the business partners ...
21st February 2023
New report reveals allegations of antisemitism within UK university campuses have seen a 23% increase in 2020-22 compared to the previous two-year period. Yet following a Freedom of Information request (FOI) last year, The Glasgow Guardian learned that in the past three years there have only been two reports of antisemitism made by students via ...
21st February 2023
The Glasgow Guardian talks industrial action, sex discrimination and devolution with UCU Scotland presidential candidate Professor Jeanette Findlay. In her own words a “serious and realistic trade unionist”, Jeanette Findlay, a Professor of Economics at the University of Glasgow is running for presidency of the Universities and College Union (UCU) Scotland branch. After recently losing...
21st February 2023
The Office of Students deemed this number of referrals to be consistent with past years. An independent review of Prevent, the government anti-terrorism strategy, has found the number of referrals from higher education as “strikingly low”. However, the Office of Students said this number was consistent with years past. During the 2020-21 academic year, 47 ...
21st February 2023
The Scottish screenwriter talks to The Glasgow Guardian about his upcoming play Better Days, and club culture past and present. Ben Tagoe was a teenager when the title track to his one-person show, Better Days, was released. Featuring a raft of classic early 90s rave tunes, his crowdfunded production tells the story of Danny, a ...
21st February 2023
Cheap outfits, big wonky teeth but intellectually thorough: it’s everything queer culture should embody. In the middle of lockdown in 2020, a then largely obscure Bailey J Mills took to Instagram to post a video of herself in a Velma Dinkley costume, shaking their fundament furiously and raunchily, and slut dropping in a way that ...
21st February 2023
Data shows a 40% increase in Scottish university staff absence due to poor mental health in the past 4 years. Figures obtained by the Scottish Conservative Party via Freedom of Information requests (FOI), reveal an alarming increase in staff absence rates as a result of poor mental wellbeing and stress between 2018-2022. Over the 4-year ...
21st February 2023
Dune 2 and a new Hunger Games film may start a resurgence in the the genre. The Hunger Games became an international success as soon as it was released. It sparked a wave of other dystopian franchise films, such as The Maze Runner and Divergent, but each Hunger Games sequel made less money than its ...
21st February 2023
An investigation by The Glasgow Guardian has revealed a sharp rise in the numbers of students choosing to postpone their studies. Following a freedom of information request, The Glasgow Guardian can reveal that the number of undergraduate students choosing to defer their studies has risen to 323 for the 2022/23 academic year. This marks an ...
21st February 2023
Leah dissects her personal relationship with Glasgow’s libraries, and debates their future. Originally serving as archives, libraries have functioned as a record of humanity throughout history. Evolving from the legendary likes of the library of Alexandria to the modernist Beinecke at Yale University known as a “jewel box”, libraries have always been symbolic of knowledge ...
