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Shona Robison visit

Vice Principal and Head of College Professor Dame Anna Dominiczak was delighted to welcome Scotland’s Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing Shona Robison MSP to the University on Friday – offering an opportunity to discuss Glasgow’s innovative and successful widening participation agenda.

The Cabinet Secretary met and took questions from current students who have come through the School of Medicine’s Glasgow Access Programme (GAP), and heard from students of their experiences of widening participation schemes, and spoke of the positive role they can now play as ambassadors in encouraging others to consider a career in medicine.

The School of Medicine’s widening participation agenda has been particularly successful in the last few years in opening up opportunities to talented and committed students regardless of their background, with the first cohort of 35 doctors graduating in June of this year, and with 18 per cent of the total cohort of undergraduate students now having come through widening participation schemes.

Gordon Brown to speak on campus next month

Gordon Brown: My Life, Our Times
In Association with The University of Glasgow and Waterstones
Bute Hall, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ
Tuesday 7 November 2017
6:00 p.m

As Chancellor of the Exchequer (1997-2007) and Prime Minister of the UK between 2007 and 2010, Gordon Brown has been on the front-line of British and global politics for four decades.
My Life, Our Times, reflects candidly on an remarkable career; from almost losing his eyesight as a student at Edinburgh University, to his early days as an MP, then on to New Labour's 1997 landslide electoral victory, through the 2008 global financial crisis and the historic 2014 Scottish and 2016 European referendums.

Register to be there via the Eventbrite booking site

University Remembrance Service

All members of the University are invited to attend the Remembrance Service in Bute Hall on Sunday 12 November 2017 at 10.45am.

Please note that all staff, students, alumni and members of the public are welcome to attend.

Staff wishing to join the academic procession are requested to assemble in the Hunterian Museum by 10.30am. Academic Dress (gown and hood plus dark long tie for men) will be worn on this occasion. It is important that all wishing to join the procession should also email: staffgowns@glasgow.ac.uk  by Friday 3  November 2017.  

RTS Bursary for Phoebe

The Royal Television Society (RTS), Britain's leading forum for television and related media, has announced the recipients of its 2017 undergraduate bursary scheme, which aims to widen participation in media and related industries and support talented students from lower income backgrounds seeking to pursue a career in television.

One of this year's resipients, Phoebe Quinn from Glasgow, has been awarded £1,000 per year towards studying the BSc/MSci Computing Science course at University of Glasgow.

The 2017 bursary scheme offers 22 bursaries for Television Production and Broadcast Journalism students and seven bursaries for Computing and Engineering undergraduates, bringing the total amount invested in the two schemes this year to £87,000. The schemes are funded by the RTS with support from All3Media, who have sponsored two places.

 

 

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First published: 2 October 2017