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Anger as university scraps courses

THE axe has fallen on a raft of courses at one of Scotland's leading universities despite months of protest from academics and students.

demonstration: Glasgow University students and staff marched through the campus yesterday in protest at the cuts. Picture: Jamie Simpson
demonstration: Glasgow University students and staff marched through the campus yesterday in protest at the cuts. Picture: Jamie Simpson

Glasgow University’s ruling Court voted to push through a series of cuts that will result in the closure of a high-profile drug misuse research centre, an end to Slavonic Studies and the scrapping of a stand-alone Liberal Arts programme at its Dumfries campus.