University of Stirling students have joined other occupations taking place around the UK in support of UCU industrial action

THE UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING has become the latest scene of a student occupation in support of the ongoing UCU strike.

On the morning on 14 March, a group of Stirling students occupied the Logie lecture theatre in the university’s Bridge of Allen campus, stating their “direct support” for staff striking over pensions, and refusing to leave the building until their demands are met.

Kitchen Table Talks and film screenings in Edinburgh to consider the future of sustainable eating

TWO DOCUMENTARIES by director Zev Robinson on local food production and fishing and sustainability in Scotland will be premiered at Edinburgh University on 20 March, followed by a panel discussion and a Kitchen Table Talk on the future of food in Scotland.

One of Glasgow's most treasured community hubs is facing a fresh funding crisis

CAMPAIGNERS supporting one of Glasgow's most treasured community hubs have hit out after discovering that a bid for Scottish Government funding to aid in the regeneration of Govanhill Baths had been rejected for a second year. 

Rape Crisis Scotland says new prosecution service guidance could violate rape survivors’ rights

VICTIMS IN rape cases could be compelled to give evidence or face a warrant for their arrest according to new guidance from the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service – a move vehemently opposed by Rape Crisis Scotland.

The change was made in a bid to support prosecutions of rape cases, which are notoriously low in numbers compared with reports to police, and which have the lowest conviction rate of any crime.

Domestic Abuse Bill a “dangerous distraction” from the threat to support services, Sisters Uncut has said

SISTERS UNCUT EDINBURGH, a campaign group which forms part of a UK-wide movement against cuts to domestic abuse services, has said the Scottish Government should do much more to protect vital support services, and that the focus on criminal justice has sidelined this issue.

Students at Dundee University have staged an occupation in support of striking lecturers 

STUDENTS at Dundee University have occupied a management corridor overnight as part of nationwide student action in support of striking lecturers at universities across the UK who walked out of lessons at the beginning of February over proposed changes to their pensions. 

Around 20 students made their way into a management corridor on Monday 12 March, issuing a list of demands including that the university becomes a living wage accredited employer. 

BBC journalists will appeal to the United Nations (UN) for protection from Iranian authorities

THE BBC has launched an "unprecedented" appeal to the UN to protect its Persian service staff, the corporation says journalists at the BBC Persian service have been subjected to a campaign of harassment including death threats. 

The BBC said it is making the appeal, the first of its kind in history, to the United Nations to protect the human rights of BBC journalists and their families from persecution. 

Kezia Dugdale said the case for a second Brexit referendum was well made 

SENIOR FIGURES in Scottish Labour hosted a frank discussion on the party's approach to Brexit on Saturday, with former leader Kezia Dugdale saying her preferred outcome would be a second referendum. 

MEP Catherine Stihler also said claims some of Labour’s 2017 manifesto could not be implemented were “disingenuous”. 

Speakers at the RIC conference address the limitations of Corbynism in tackling the British establishment

UK LABOUR LEADER Jeremy Corbyn may be “a new kind of Labour leader”, but putting him in power will not solve the imbalances of the British state, argued speakers at the spring conference of the Radical Independence Campaign (RIC).