NUS Scotland hosted “The Big Student Election Debate” on Tuesday 20 April which saw leaders and representatives from Scotland's five main parties come together to answer questions submitted by students across the country.
The “Fearless Flat Hunting” campaign by the Students' Representative Council (SRC) is back and coming in full swing just as the academic year comes to an end. As part of the annual campaign to help those new to renting in Glasgow, this year’s top tips article features seven key pieces of advice from the SRC to give students an insight into the renting process and its pitfalls. The tips include paying attention to moving-related Covid guidelines, looking out for scams and being cautious around a
A number of University societies have taken part in "Go the Extra Mile" activities and raised money for charity. TEDx University of Glasgow, Glasgow University Hispanic Society (GUHS), and the Physiology Society all took part with their members raising money for both Cancer Research UK and the Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH). The Physiology Society, who challenged its members to walk 10k steps a day, raised over £550 and TEDx, who were running the length of a marathon during Marc
Glasgow University’s Career Service has launched a new campaign to reassure students who are set to graduate into a job market that has been turbulent since the beginning of the pandemic.
Yesterday, the Students' Representative Council held their Spring Elections hustings via Facebook Live, allowing candidates to briefly introduce themselves and take questions from the virtual audience. All four of the sabbatical positions are contested this year.
For the first time in TEDxUniversity of Glasgow history, the eagerly-anticipated and well-renowned main conference will be brought to all viewers in their homes, entirely virtually. "Distortion" is the theme of 2021's online event, which is to take place on the 6 March at 11am.
Scotland has produced some of the biggest names in the music industry both in Britain and on the global stage. Taking a look back over the music scene in Glasgow and beyond over the last thirty years, there are plenty of hidden gems, from a variety of genres, who were either under-appreciated at the time of their career or faded in fame in recent years. On top of this, there are numerous current artists who have not yet gained the recognition they deserve. We’ve selected our top thirteen Scottish artists as a recommendation for those looking to delve deeper into Scotland’s underrated talents – old and new.
The SRC have announced a three-day online Volunteering and Social Justice Festival will take place from 3 to 5 February. The festival will feature clubs and societies from all across campus including representatives from student media such as the Glasgow Guardian and Glasgow University Student Television as well as activism groups and charities like GU Amnesty International and Language4Water.
With “sex, drugs and rock and roll” being the defining, unholy trinity of the 1970s rock music scene, the role of the groupie was an important part of the rock star way of life. Groupies have featured prominently in pop culture ever since – from the romanticised, self-proclaimed “band-aid” Penny Lane in to in which Jack Black’s, thirty-something character, in one retrospectively questionable scene, assigned the vital role to three schoolgirls. Groupies are often depicted as young women or teenag
For those longing for an escape from this year’s endless doom and gloom, the announcement of the new series of wholesome cookery programme would have been welcome news. We should have been able to tune into Channel 4 on Tuesday 22 September at 8pm for an hour of baking mishaps and “soggy bottom” innuendos, but due to an emergency coronavirus statement from both the Prime Minister and First Minister scheduled for the same time, viewers were instead reminded of the all-too-real problems they may h
