Campaign goes on to save Stow College

Staff from Glasgow’s Stow College lobbied the Scottish Parliament on 4 May as part of their campaign to save the threatened college.

It is facing removal of its funding unless a large number of courses trensfer to the newly merged City of Glasgow College.

As SiU went to press, UNISON Glasgow City Branch officers were hoping to meet with the Scottish Funding Council to try to take the issues forward, having been told by the Scottish Government that it could not step in.

Stow College removed itself from the merger process involving the Metropolitan College, and the other colleges planning to form the new City of Glasgow College.

Glasgow UNISON’s Jim Snell said, “Despite the withdrawal, the Scottish Funding Council still wants certain courses and student numbers to be delivered from within the new college structure”.

“However if Stow does this then it will be longer be a viable college, so in essence it is being forced to the merger table or to huge uncertainty.”

The lobby was the start of a wider campaign to include the EIS and the STUC given Stow delivers a huge number of TU courses.

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