Local elections, and the vote students forget they have
With local elections due, a student guide sets out what is at stake in one council area — all 54 seats, and the decisions councils make about licensing, housing standards, bus subsidies and bins. Students can register at both a home and a term-time address and vote in local elections at either, which is the part most people do not know.
Psychological safety belongs in a funding framework
Two lecturers argue Scotland’s higher education funding review should account for psychological safety — whether staff and students can raise problems without cost — pointing out that the institutions in the deepest financial trouble are the ones where nobody said so early. It follows the assessment review ordered after a student’s death at Glasgow.