Glasgow MSP welcomes prestigious marketing award

Sandra White, MSP for Glasgow, has today welcomed the announcement that Glasgow City Marketing Bureau has won the UK’s Best Convention Bureau at the 2011 Meetings and Incentive Travel Awards for the fifth time in a row.

Glasgow beat off stiff competition to win the award, which is voted on by over 3,000 meetings industry professionals, triumphing in a shortlist which London, Liverpool and Manchester failed to even make.

Sandra White calls for proposed cuts to be withdrawn

Sandra White MSP for the Glasgow Region today voiced her serious concern over the proposed cuts at Glasgow University with the First Minister Alex Salmond.

Speaking at First Minister’s questions Ms White asked the First Minister whether he agreed that the proposals, which would see a huge reduction in the study of modern languages; the provision of nursing courses and adult learning courses, were not in the best interests of the university and Scotland as a whole.

Sandra White MSP for the Glasgow Region has spoken out against proposed cuts at Glasgow university put forward by the universities principal and management group. The cuts would see a huge reduction in the study of modern languages; the provision of nursing courses and adult learning courses and have been roundly condemned by academics and students alike.

The universities principal has previously stated that the university must make these cuts in order to proposals have been put forward as part of the universities cost cutting programme that according to Mr Muscatelli need to be carried out or ‘the institution could run out of money by 2013 if they took no action to address cuts in public funding’.