28th February 2024
40% of Student Council set to be vacant, while two of four ‘sabbs’ to be elected unopposed Polls in the Students’ Representative Council Spring elections have opened this Wednesday morning, following a short campaign. Among the 41 positions up for grabs, however, only 5 have more than one candidate running, raising concerns about the continuing ...
18th February 2024
A no-nonsense guide to the SRC elections taking place at the end of the month. Elections are currently taking place for positions on the Students’ Representative Council (SRC). The SRC is one of four student unions at the University of Glasgow, being responsible for representing the interests and views of the student body to the ...
6th October 2023
Democratic deficit at the SRC as only 3 of 17 elections are competitive, and 8 positions to remain vacant. Reflecting a wider trend of uncontested and undercontested elections in students’ unions, only three of the seventeen Glasgow University Students’ Representative Council’s Autumn 2023 elections are set to be competitive. Following the closing of nominations on ...
4th July 2023
Upon leaving office last week, former GUSA President Vivek Pandya stated the role is about delivering for students and not “cosying up” to the university. TW: mention of gender-based violence GUSA hasn’t exactly had a noble history. The sexual allegations brought against Paddy Everingham, a previous GUSA President, showed that the culture that enabled Everingham’s accused ...
28th February 2023
Polling for the sabbatical positions within the SRC will open via the UofG Life app at 9am on Wednesday 1 March. The sabbatical positions, those are the most senior student positions within the SRC, are: SRC President (one candidate: Hailie Pentleton), Vice President Education (two candidates: Jordan Hunter and Ross Whip), Vice President Student Activities ...
21st February 2023
The student representative council has released an open letter calling the University’s plan to raise rent in University-owned student accommodation by 9.5%, calling the increase a “shocking imposition”. The rise in rent was, according to the SRC letter, brought on by the University benchmarking its rent prices against those of privately owned accommodations- which typically ...
7th January 2023
The University has failed to accept the SRC’s demand that student numbers be capped until 2027. The only demand, out of the four, that the University set out an adequate response to was the demand that the SRC be involved in planning for the 23/24 academic year in regards to incoming students. In response to ...
22nd November 2022
The University of Glasgow has been asked to review its policy relating to student numbers. The Student Representative Council (SRC) has launched a campaign entitled “Cap Student Numbers Now!” demanding the University of Glasgow cap the number of students admitted each year until 2027. A gradual increase of a maximum of 1200 students will be ...
3rd October 2022
Katarina discusses why the SRC should not concede to legal pressure from anti-abortion societies. *The author recognises that some people who may get an abortion do not identify as women and fully supports the right of any pregnant person to an abortion. The Student Representative Council is affiliated with over 300 student societies on campus. ...
6th May 2022
The extra money will allow the SRC to introduce an extra Advice Worker and a Gender-Based Violence Counsellor. The Student Representative Council (SRC) has secured extra funding from the University of Glasgow to fund two new student support roles. The money will provide a new full-time advice worker, who will begin working in the new ...
