11th January 2024
The former deputy first minister best known for bungling student’s predicted grades during the COVID-19 pandemic has been given a job at the University. The MSP for the Scottish National Party John Swinney has been given a role in the University of Glasgow as an honorary professor at the Centre for Public Policy. According to ...
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
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 ...
20th April 2022
Craig Williamson reflects on the Covid-19 death toll surpassing six million. On 9 March 2022, the global death toll of the Covid-19 pandemic hit six million. That number might be hard to conceptualise – it’s more than the entire population of Scotland, and roughly 10 times that of Glasgow. No matter how we try to ...
4th April 2022
Over two years on from the initial outbreak of Covid-19, The Glasgow Guardian examines how researchers at the University of Glasgow contributed towards tackling the pandemic. The MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR) has played a significant role in the genetic surveillance of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, numerous vaccine trials, and critical public health ...
28th February 2022
The added stress of the pandemic has made life harder for teachers, too. It’s a Tuesday morning at 8:30am. Three years ago you’d be on the train, heading for the city towards your impending 9am lecture in the Boyd Orr building with a Starbucks latte in hand. Now, you are in bed – still pyjama-clad ...
27th February 2022
The leader of the study says the topic of home drinking is one that needs to be monitored as we move out of the pandemic. Lockdown restrictions throughout 2020 contributed towards a rise in more people in both Scotland and England drinking at home, according to a recent University of Glasgow study. The research, done ...
17th January 2022
We need to start addressing the serious effects that long Covid is having on students. It’s the part of the pandemic that everyone wants to forget. The alienating and exhausting part. But if you’re living with long covid then you can’t just forget, because it overwhelms you. My mum hasn’t been the same since March ...
16th January 2022
Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli writes on why inflation is the biggest test yet for central bank independence in The Conversation. Sir Anton Muscatelli, Principal of the University of Glasgow, has published an article about the current state of economic inflation during the Covid-19 pandemic. In his essay for The Conversation, the economist discussed a rate ...
5th January 2022
Melisa Korkut discusses the reported period changes following the Covid-19 vaccine. In recent months, claims of people noticing changes to their periods after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine have emerged on social media. This likely came as such a shock because the possibility of menstruation changes as a side effect is not included in the patient ...
