Yesterday, following my raising concerns that the latest City Council new recycling kerbside collection pilot excluded the West End Ward (and two of the other seven wards in Dundee), I met with the City Council’s Environment Director and the Head of Environmental Protection regarding the matter. We had a useful discussion and I did obtain assurances [...]
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Busy Friday …
Posted: May 19, 2012 in Dundee West Church, Lochee Park, Pentland, recycling, Riverside Drive, Roseangle, University of AbertayWillie Rennie on the SNP’s college funding cuts …
Posted: November 10, 2011 in Dundee College, Liberal Democrats, University of Abertay, Willie RennieDear Fraser, Today at First Minister’s Questions I asked if the SNP government would use some of the £67 million of extra funding they have received from our government at Westminster to fill the £40 million college funding gap. The SNP took the decision to cut college funding, which could threaten nearly 9000 student places [...]
Future of post-16 education
Posted: November 5, 2011 in Dundee College, University of Abertay, University of DundeeMeeting at the University of Abertay Dundee Last night, along with representatives from the University College Union (UCU) at the University of Dundee, the University of Abertay Dundee and London Metropolitan University and a UCU national representative, the National Union of Students (NUS), Abertay Students’ Association and parliamentary representatives from Labour and the SNP, I [...]
I am taking part in a public meeting in the University of Abertay Dundee’s main lecture theatre tomorrow night (Friday 4th November) at 7pm – details below :
The fifth AGM of the Dundee Fair Trade Forum takes place on Thursday 27th October at 7pm in Room 2522, Bell Street Building, University of Abertay, Dundee. The guest speaker for the evening will be Martin Rhodes, Director of the Scottish Fair Trade Nation campaign, who will give an update on Scotland’s bid to become [...]
Dundee’s universities – an update
Posted: September 30, 2011 in University of Abertay, University of DundeeAs readers of www.dundeewestend.com are aware, I have made clear my opposition to the merger of the University of Dundee and the University of Abertay Dundee, and I therefore welcome the apparent reassurance made by Alex Salmond at First Minister’s Questions yesterday that there would be “no forced merger” of our two universities. Let [...]
Call to stop any merger of Abertay University with the University of Dundee
Posted: September 24, 2011 in University of Abertay, University of DundeeI am quoted in today’s Courier indicating my concerns that the SNP government is trying to bulldoze Dundee’s two universities into a merger and there are significant detrimental implications from such a merger in terms of course availability and staffing. It would indeed be a sad day if the number of universities in the [...]
