Dumfries Degree Closure Scandal Rumbles On

We reported the campaign to save jobs and course options at the Dumfries Campus of the University of Glasgow. The jobs were saved (at least temporarily), but the courses were cut. It leaves Dumfries as a joke ‘University Town’- as the campus is  without any of  the degree options of any mainstream university (no Arts, Humanities, Literature, History, etc.).  How did the University of Glasgow get away with this?

Well, the student representative, Stuart Richie, from the Glasgow Campus whose job was to represent Dumfries students, has been found to be cahoots with the University management. He failed to stand up for the students he claimed he would support on all sorts of matters, so its no surprise many suspect he failed to stand up for the Dumfries students too. Doubts that seems to have grown, with reports in Glasgow Guardian that Mr Richie was given a pay off worth several thousand of pounds (£3,804 to be precise) authorised by senior University figures in order to ‘protect the organisation’ (their words). Management know how to protect their own.

Mr Richie is unlikely to entirely disaapear. In 20 years tike, expect him, like other shamed Glasgow University figures, such as Liam Fox, to have a well-paid ignoble political careers.