29th April 2023
Baroness Meta Ramsay reminisces on her time at the University of Glasgow and her friends from those days who went on to lead New Labour. Baroness Meta Ramsay’s career since graduating from the University of Glasgow has not been short of drama nor prestige. Since her days frequenting Gilmorehill as President of the Student Representative ...
7th April 2023
The Glasgow Guardian explores whether universities are doing enough to make academia accessible. Knowledge is a diverse substance. One which knows no boundaries to those who obtain it, regardless of gender, race, class or disability. Accordingly, it would seem that academia, a field of knowledge and study, should be an institution built upon such diversity ...
7th April 2023
Dealing with grief and the lack of compassion in the University’s ‘support structures’. My mum passed away at the end of my first year of university, and it was the hardest thing I have ever faced. She died at the end of April, and three days later, I found myself sitting in Bute Hall, trying ...
21st March 2023
The Glasgow Guardian outlines a range of student opinions regarding the Scottish Government’s proposed ban on disposable vapes. Led by Green MSP Gillian Mackay, a ban on the use of disposable vapes is currently being discussed in the Scottish Parliament. A large consideration in this proposal is the use of lithium batteries and the threat ...
1st March 2023
The Glasgow Guardian unpacks Glasgow’s status as the cocaine capital of the world and its stemming class divide. Scotland. A picturesque land of babbling brooks, evergreen trees, snowy mountain tops and even snowier noses. According to a 2022 Vice documentary, Scotland is now the cocaine capital of the world, in particular Glasgow, with Scotland having ...
20th February 2023
UofG students are engaging with direct action and risking arrest, for causes including the divestment of arms and fossil fuel industries. At 12.18 p.m. on 3 February 2023, two young women meet for a second time. Through the misty morning air, they recognize each other in a crowd of protestors around Glasgow University’s main gates. ...
30th January 2023
The Glasgow Guardian seeks to explore the whole package of flatmate living; the good, the bad, and the uncomfortable drunken conversations. It is a truth universally acknowledged that at some point or other, we, as university students, will likely have to experience the joys of shared accommodation. With this comes the chance to garner a ...
12th January 2023
The cost of living crisis is affecting us all. We speak to UofG students about the impact of rising energy bills on their standard of living. The cost of living crisis has engulfed the bulk of the population across the UK, with many families and students faced with the decision of either heating their homes ...
12th January 2023
Tom Gilbert explores the intergenerational divide between today’s queer youth and the queer elderly. “It stems from a deep fear of ageing ourselves. It’s almost impossible when we’re young and beautiful to look at someone we consider not attractive and realise we too are going to become that person.” I’m talking to Trevor Diamond, a ...
11th January 2023
As Divya Venkattu says goodbye to Glasgow University, she reminisces on her memorable time at UofG. It has been a few months since I moved out of my university accommodation to another part of the city. Life passes you by so quickly that any attempt to grasp a certain period in time in the palm ...
