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Campaigner elected Edinburgh rector in one-horse race »

Peter McColl

Green activist and former Edinburgh University Students’ Association sabbatical officer Peter McColl has been elected unopposed as the new Rector of the University of Edinburgh, in a result widely hailed as a victory for the student movement. Mr...

Thu 12 Jan 2012 by Marcus Kernohan | Read more »

Time to pay the piper »

Edinburgh University's Old College

The clock is ticking on the future of higher education in Scotland. The democratic intellect is on borrowed time. In less than a month John Swinney, the Scottish finance secretary, must decide whether or not to restore tuition fees in Scotland. If he d...

Wed 27 Oct 2010 by Iain Macwhirter | Read more »

Call for vice-chancellors to break their silence on tuition fees »

Call for vice-chancellors to break their silence on tuition fees

Scottish university heads should engage in debate on alternative forms of higher education funding, according to Edinburgh rector Iain Macwhirter. Mr Macwhirter, elected by students earlier this year, said that vice-chancellors should be doing more to...

Wed 25 Nov 2009 by Constantine Innemée | Read more »

Out of the sun and into the court »

Ian Macwhirter

Edinburgh University's newly elected rector has urged students to “hang in there” as the economic climate looks bleaker than ever. In his first interview with The Journal since his election last month, Iain Macwhirter warned of the tough t...

Mon 09 Mar 2009 by Megan Taylor | Read more »

Macwhirter elected Edinburgh rector »

Ian Macwhirter

Sunday Herald journalist, Iain Macwhirter has defeated George Foulkes MSP to become the University of Edinburgh's 50th rector. The results were announced this evening at the university's Old College after voting from staff and students on both Wednesd...

Thu 12 Feb 2009 by Evan Beswick | Read more »

Rectorial candidates face off one last time »

Teviot Debating Hall was the venue of the final battle between the two candidates for the position of rector of the University of Edinburgh on the evening of Tuesday 10 February. Following voting on Wednesday and Thursday, either Iain Macwhirter or Lo...

Thu 12 Feb 2009 by Amy Magowan-Greene | Read more »

Foulkes attacks Sunday Herald while defending Eversheds connection »

George Foulkes

Lord Foulkes of Cumnock MSP, one of two remaining candidates running for the position of rector of the University of Edinburgh, has accused the Sunday Herald of conducting a smear campaign against him ahead of this week's vote. In an interview wi...

Wed 11 Feb 2009 by Paris Gourtsoyannis | Read more »

The rectorial round table »

Iain MacWhirter and George Foulkes

It always makes an interviewer’s life easier when his subject fits neatly into the popular caricature; when three do so at once, you feel positively spoiled. Together for the first time, the three candidates for the Edinburgh University rectorshi...

Wed 11 Feb 2009 by Simon Mundy | Read more »

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