23rd February 2018
Liam King Writer Liam King explores where the University’s motives lie regarding campus redevelopment The Learning and Teaching Hub is the first building in the University’s £1bn Campus Development programme. Unless you have been away from campus recently, you will almost certainly have noticed the building site adjacent to the Boyd Orr. At £90.8m, it ...
20th February 2018
Michaila Byrne Writer A comprehensive look at the motivations and attitudes surrounding the strikes In the coming days strikes are expected to affect around 60 universities over a four-week period. Affected universities include Queen’s Belfast, Brighton, Cardiff, UCL, Oxford, Manchester and Glasgow. As part of this national dispute, the University of Glasgow can expect to ...
2nd February 2018
Rona MacNicol Writer Is Glasgow University doing enough to encourage students’ healthy eating on campus? With a seemingly inherent addiction to avocados, nutribullets, and Instagram fitness videos, the “millennial” generation, many of whom are students, seem to have sussed out healthy living far better than their predecessors. Indeed, studies repeatedly find that younger generations have...
29th January 2018
Rachael Bunyan Reporter “I wish there was a way to warn people and say ‘Listen, this happened. Don’t apply to the University of Glasgow. Go somewhere else. Do something else’”. The Glasgow Guardian reported in November that many graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) from the University’s School of Social and Political Sciences had suffered financial difficulties ...
27th January 2018
Louise Wylie Writer There are few things more controversial in the modern world of work than the zero-hours contract. Some view it as an exploitative tool of businesses undercutting workers’ rights, others as a flexible arrangement for those employed in part-time work. The Labour Party want them banned and unions are increasingly mobilising against them. ...
25th January 2018
Georgina Hayes Views Editor Harassers adapt to intersectional politics, on campus and beyond This article contains information about and descriptions of sexual assault, harassment and/or violence that some may find triggering or upsetting. Unless you’ve been living under a pop culture rock (or, perhaps, aren’t as obsessed with awards season as I am), you ...
15th January 2018
Jacob J. Nicol Writer Jacob Nicol investigates the infamously poor library etiquette of Glasgow University students My time served in this institution will soon be coming to an end. However before I leave, I feel compelled to address a disturbing development that has only gotten worse during my time here as a student. This unspoken ...
22nd December 2017
Roisin McCarthy Investigations Editor Roisin McCarthy speaks to Director of CAPS, Phil Quinn An open letter from the SRC to the University’s Senior Management Group (SMG) was recently released. The content outlined a growing concern for the significant rise in student admissions alongside a request for the SMG to re-evaluate its spending on resources such ...
10th December 2017
Selena Drake & Harry Vizor Deputy Editor & Features Editor Graeme Eddolls talks to The Glasgow Guardian about how he became an employee at QinetiQ following his studies at the University of Glasgow In our final interview of the series, Graeme Eddolls tells us how he found work following his degree in Physics with Astrophysics. ...
10th December 2017
Gustav Jönsson Writer The Students’ Representative Council (SRC) recently sent a letter to the Senior Management Group (SMG) detailing worries about student over-recruitment. This year, the University has accepted over 1000 more students than it did last year. The SRC says that this may lead to the overall student experience being “dangerously side-lined” and that ...
