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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 »

Edinburgh University begins search for new Rector »

Staff and students at the University of Edinburgh have begun the process of electing a new Rector of the University. Nominations are now open and the new Rector will be appointed next year, replacing journalist and broadcaster Ian Macwhirter who becam...

Wed 30 Nov 2011 by Tom McCallum | 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 »

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 »

Personalities and politics »

George Foulkes A graduate of the University of Edinburgh with a degree in Psychology, the Right Honourable Lord George Foulkes of Cumnock MSP—to quote his full title—currently represents the Lothians region for the Labour party in the Scottish Parliam...

Wed 28 Jan 2009 by Paris Gourtsoyannis | Read more »

"Be nice to George!" - but how could I not? »

It’s when you meet George Galloway face to face that you realise he is a figure defined by the battles he has fought. Though it may be a concession to the cliché that people always look taller on television than they do in real life, the f...

Mon 26 Jan 2009 by Paris Gourtsoyannis | Read more »

The spirit of '68 »

Even London was considered a sideshow to Paris’ cobblestone throwing conduct of 1968. Mick Jagger summed it up lyrically in a song the same year, “In sleepy London town there’s just no place for a street fighting man.” Edinburg...

Tue 09 Dec 2008 by Guy Robertson | Read more »

Democratic principals »

Charles Kennedy

A curious alchemy is bringing the cutting edge of modern Scottish educational thinking into contact with one of its most distinctive and historic features. The Scottish government’s Higher Education Task Force—a gathering of the educational...

Thu 02 Oct 2008 by Charles Kennedy | Read more »

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