Archive for December, 2009

More Resignations Needed Over Loans Fiasco

December 23, 2009 View Comments

Today Liberal Youth has called for more senior staff at the Student Loans Company (SLC) to resign after the decision of both the SLC’s Director of Marketing & Customer Services, Martin Herbert, and Director of ICT, Wallace Grey to leave following the recent report in to the recent failure of the SLC to provide students ...

News

Penny for the Students?

December 4, 2009 View Comments

Students, led by members of Liberal Youth Scotland, gathered at the Student Loans Company HQ in Glasgow today to protest against the incompetence of the SLC in failing to pay student loans to tens of thousands of students, leaving many of them struggling, with some dropping out or even being forced to work in STRIP ...

News

Guest post from George Lyon: Copenhagen or bust – Join The Wave!

December 2, 2009 View Comments

Copenhagen or bust for climate change Sir David King, the Government’s former chief scientific advisor, has called climate change ‘a far greater threat to the world than international terrorism’. He is right. We must mobilise against global warming and Copenhagen will be the rallying point. Labour’s time in office has seen rising carbon emissions, plans ...

Events

Young Lib Dems Hold Flashmob Against Student Loans Company Incompetence

December 1, 2009 View Comments

  Students from Liberal Youth Scotland will show their anger at the Student Loans Company’s incompetence and bonus culture on their doorstep, by holding a flashmob outside their office on Bothwell St, Glasgow, this Friday 4th December. Commenting, Liberal Youth Scotland President Ruaraidh Dobson said: “It’s outrageous that the SLC has paid its executives huge ...

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