Student administration/Student relations management, University of Glasgow

University of Glasgow

Student administration

Student relations management

General Council

University of Glasgow Students' Representative Council

Departmental staff/student liaison committees

Before 1858, the only involvement of the students in the government of the University was in the election of the Rector. From the foundation of the University, the Rector was elected annually by the whole body of the members of the University, masters and students alike, voting in their four nations. The Universities (Scotland) Act, 1858 entrusted the election of the Rector to the matriculated students alone. From this date, the Rector became mainly concerned with representing the students on the University Court. Women students became eligible to vote for the Rector in 1892 when Queen Margaret College became the Women's Department of the University.

The 1858 act also gave the body of graduates of the University a certain share in the administration by the establishment of a General Council. The Council considered all questions affecting the well being and prosperity of the University and could make representation on any such question to the University Court.

A Students' Representative Council was instituted in 1885 with the aims of representing the students in such matters as affected their interests and affording a recognised means of communication between the students and the University authorities. It obtained statutory recognition by an ordinance (Ordinance No.60. General, No.22) issued by the commissioners under the terms of the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1889. The ordinance gave the Council the power to petition the Senate on matters of teaching and discipline and to petition the University Court on any other matter affecting the students. All matriculated students of the University were eligible to vote in the election of representatives. Women students were represented from 1894 by the Queen Margaret College Students' Representative Council, which was organised on the same footing as the university men's Student Representative Council but remained a completely separate organisation until 1898 when the two were amalgamated.

Students were also involved at departmental level. From the 1960s, students in every class were represented by one or more class representatives who sat on a staff/student liaison committee, the purpose of which was to convey matters of student concern to the Head of Department.

Senate minutes 1730 to date Ref: GB 0248 GUA SEN 1/1
 

Senate scroll minutes 1771-1839 Ref: GB 0248 GUA 74018
 

Senate meeting papers c18th century-1998 Ref: GB 0248 GUA Senate papers
 

Records of General Council 1859 to date Ref: GB 0248 GUA DC 183
 

Court minutes 1860-1997 Ref: GB 0248 GUA C 1/1
 

Court papers 1861-1964 Ref: GB 0248 GUA C 1/4
 

Indexes to Senate minutes 1873-1919 Ref: GB 0248 GUA SEN 1/2
 

Clerk of Senate's letter books 1876-1911 ref: GB 0248 GUA 17069-17098
 

Records of Students' Representative Council 1886 to date Ref: GB 0248 DC 157
 

Records of Queen Margaret College Students' Representative Council 1894-1898 ref: GB 0248 DC 233/2/16/1/1-2
 

Court agendas 1894-1925 Ref: GB 0248 GUA C 1/3
 

Court camera minutes 1900-1944 Ref: GB 0248 GUA C 1/2
 

Court camera papers 1906-1944 Ref: GB 0248 GUA C 1/5
 

Senate out letter books 1913-1947 ref: GB 0248 GUA 58533-58571
 

Minutes of School of Social Study and Training 1928-1943 Ref: GB 0248 GUA SST 1
 

Minutes, agendas and memoranda of meetings of Department of Politics 1968-1976 Ref: GB 0248 GUA POL 1
 

Title of function/activity taken from Elizabeth Parker's Function Activity Model (report compiled for JISC). Function and activity description compiled according to GASHE's Standard for Creating Function and Activity Descriptions.