The mysterious case of Gerry McCormac’s “remuneration” The University of Stirling’s Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Gerry McCormac, earned £247,165 a year in 2013-14, according to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests carried out by the…
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An Economics Professor from Stirling University, Prof. David Bell, has co-authored a report warning new powers coming to Scotland may be unworkable – and in the long run, could cost the Scottish budget…
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Families from a refugee camp in Jordan. Credit: Central FM Stirling’s representatives at Westminster and Holyrood, Steven Paterson MP and Bruce Crawford MSP, have issued statements condemning the recent terrorist atrocities in Paris,…
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A year after the Scottish independence referendum, where is Scotland now as a country? More importantly, where are we going? Dan Vevers speaks to the University's political societies to find out what…
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The General Election has been and men and women across Britain have exercised their right to vote. But do people in Britain realise the hard road to democracy that Britain has trudged? And…
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General Election 2015 was set to be a coalition extravaganza. For weeks we have had poll after poll tell us that the results were far too close to call, that no party…
MoreWhen the Labour Party emerged in 1900, strong political ideologies and identities arose within Britain and the rivalry between the two main parties began. However, in the past hundred years, Britain has…
MoreMeet Carly Fiorina. Minimum political experience, a Republican who tried to become Senator for California but failed, former CEO of Hewlett Packard, but a woman. She is now running for the Republican…
MoreVoting behaviour has evolved significantly in Britain over the centuries and it has been greatly influenced by the ever changing face of media. We know that in the eighteenth century, voting was…
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It is very easy to see why people are becoming dissafected with politics. In 2010, we did see turnout increase slightly, but with this up-in-the-air General Election just months away, we would…
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