Talk:Glasgow Caledonian University

message: *Agree about the proespectussy feel of the schools... was an almost straight copy from the website... probably infringes NPOV but it is only a basis until I can re-read it and fix it to become more neutral [and dare I say factual].
*Could be a very big list to list all the subjects... possibly I could just list the bigger ones?
*Well 98% of Glasgow's student nurses attend Glasgow Caledonian.  Is the numerically accurate enough?
*Pfft... Caledonian offers Diploma and Degree undergraduate nursing.. but there are differences between caley's BA(Hons) and Glasgow's BN(Hons) - I could mention them possibly.
*League tables.. easy to sort out.  Caley's position is rising
*Many different hospitals in about 5 health boards.. maybe we could mention the health boards.???
*Teaching quality... there is and actually had a title in for it but I got bored after a while and couldnt be bothered.  Physiotherapy got an excellent, nursing highly satisfactory if my memory serves me right.
*Campus Development is on my list
*Photos are on my list and maybe an interactive campus map... if my skills extend that far [and wiki lets me]
*Don't have a rector/lord rector.[remember this is a post-1992 uni]
*There was an asylum on the site and I read similar stuff about its failings on google groups but I will have to do some researching to validate it... If I remember correctly there was a BBC News article.
Thanks for the comments... Panthro 17:17, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
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message: I am concerned at the apparent hijacking of this article as an advertising platform for the university, for six reasons.
1. Much of the content is from the prospectus, thereby effectively offering free advertising in an encyclopaedia.
2. Two unfavourable references have been removed without explanation for the change in previous edits (along with a major edit quite rightly removed, which was entirely unsubstantiated, but upon checking did return matches from the Glasgow Herald (with the full stories only being available upon payment)).
3. Listing of entirely flavoured content, including...
'Glasgow Caledonian University has established a distinctive identity in terms of its flexible, vocationally orientated academic programmes, its emphasis on life-long learning and the wide range of client groups it serves.' 
'Having been patron of the College since 1944, the Queen was pleased to accede to the request in 1975 that the College became known as The Queen's College of Glasgow.' (over dramatisation)
'The University works towards the Scottish Parliament’s policy of social inclusion regarding improving access and widening participation in higher education through non-traditional routes and sectors.'
4. Alumni are generally regarded as those who lasted long enough to graduate with degrees.
5. The references removed without account being given were from a forum dedicated to the university.  Amongst the posts were details of claims of statistics being falsified to improve the university's league table placement.  After tables based on these new statistics appear, there is an entry here regarding the sudden improvement.
6. Despite many unfavourable events in the university's short history, and this being a larger entry than most universities, there is only one sentence offering mildly unfavourable content.
: Can you identify which edit introduced material directly from the prospectus?  If it's verbatim copy of, or a paraphrasing of, the prospectus then the article is a copyvio and the offending revisions must be deleted from the article history (in practise that means if revision X adds the copied material, X and all subsequent revisions will have to be deleted). -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 21:54, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "Glasgow Caledonian University has established a distinctive identity in terms of its flexible, vocationally orientated academic programmes, its emphasis on life-long learning and the wide range of client groups it serves. It offers programmes in all of the SHEFC funding groups except medicine/dentistry and teacher education. In May 2002, it launched the first Scottish Centre for Work Based Learning. The vision of the University into the new millennium calls for it to be "innovative in programmes, learning and research, inclusive of all sectors of society, and responsive to the needs of the individual". The University works towards the Scottish Parliament’s policy of social inclusion regarding improving access and widening participation in higher education through non-traditional routes and sectors. Currently the University has approximately 15,000 students, 1,500 staff, 25% of students studying part-time, 66% of students over the age of 21, and more than 700 International students from over 70 countries. (Source:Glasgow Caledonian University)"
7. I am a former member of staff and have various documents I would wish to refer to when adding content.  The documents are on paper, how can I show them here?  Some are between Dr Johnston and the university's solicitor and reflect extremely badly.  Could these be shown legally?  I also have a government report that was never published at the request of Dr Johnston which questions the integrity of university management. It runs to over 100 pages, how can I cite from this?
Also I had searched details from the Glasgow Herald to confirm details of various things but (for example) it now returns :-
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/smgpubs/656097981.html?did=656097981&FMT=ABS&FMTS=FT&date=Jun+28%2C+2004&author=Elizabeth+Buie&pub=The+Herald&desc=Honours+students+threaten+exams+action%3B+Lecture+notes+on+diet+%27were+potentially+dangerous%27
This was an article explaining the university found there to be nothing unsatsfactory after students on a placement in hospital had been told what they had been trained was out of date and could kill patients.  But this summary hardly shows this, however the entire article does.  I kept the actual newspaper, how can I display it?  (its the Glasgow Herald from 28th June 2004).
Sorry, I normally do far simpler entries, but realise with matters like this far more substantiation is required.
Transnistria 23:39, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  This is an encyclopaedia not advertising space. 

message: Is anyone else agreed that the neutrality of the article is not in question anymore with Pearlse edit?
Panthro 15:09, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Neutrality

message: (I'm posting this to all articles on UK universities as so far discussion hasn't really taken off on Wikipedia:WikiProject Universities.)
There needs to be a broader convention about which university rankings to include in articles. Currently it seems most pages are listing primarily those that show the institution at its best (or worst in a few cases). See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Universities#University ratings. Timrollpickering 22:06, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: University ratings

message: -No proof of their claims most likely a troll- Aarongaming100 (talk) 16:12, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
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message: It is the only Holistic Risk Management course in UK, not just risk management. Can someone find a source as i do that course and here that a lot?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.62.251.34 (talk) 17:43, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
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