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‘Systematic failures’ cause Hetherington club shutdown(0)
Sarah Smith
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Guardian has obtained minutes detailing the extent of the Hetherington Research Club’s (HRC) problems in the months before it was forced to cease trading in February.
The minutes, from a meeting of the Committee of Management (CoM) on January 25, 2010, indicate that the Club had been in trouble for months before any action was [...]
Highest turnout in five years for SRC elections
Anna Murray and Sarah Smith
The Students’ Representative Council (SRC) elections attracted the highest turnout in five years, after more than 2000 students cast their votes online.
The elections on March 3 and 4 saw seventeen students vying for the four positions on the SRC Executive and eighteen students standing for ten of the seventeen academic convenor [...]
Russell rules out Scottish tuition fees
Craig MacLellan
Mike Russell, Scottish Education Secretary, has ruled out the introduction of top-up tuition fees to Scottish universities in his first major speech on higher education since being appointed to the role.
Addressing delegates at the annual NUS Scotland conference in Dunfermline, Russell acknowledged that although university funding will come under increased pressure in the coming [...]
Scotland’s only postgraduate club closes down
Sarah Smith
Hetherington House has closed its doors for business after the Hetherington Research Club (HRC) Committee of Management (CoM) were told that any continued trading would be illegal.
After 54 years, Scotland’s only club dedicated to postgraduate, mature and international students ceased trading on February 19, after a period of operating on a day-to-day basis whilst [...]
