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UK Top Modern University 2026 💙🎓
(The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026)

UK's University of the Year for Graduate Jobs 2026 💼
(Daily Mail University Guide 2026)

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Today we observe Transgender Day of Remembrance. 🏳️‍⚧️

🧷 If you are looking for support or would like to know more about how you can support others, visit our website: www.gcu.ac.uk/currentstude...

#WeAreGCU #GlasgowCaledonianUniversity
Transgender Day of Remembrance, 20 November. The image includes a graphic with the following caption: Glasgow Caledonian is for you, me, him, her, they, them, us. The graphic features the colours of the LGBTQIA flag and a photo of our campus in the background.
November 20, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Glasgow Caledonian University is marking National Estranged Students Solidarity Week (24-30 November) by highlighting its comprehensive support for more than 600 estranged students currently enrolled at the University. 💙

Learn more ⬇️
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Glasgow Caledonian's busy campus during the Open Day in September 2025.
November 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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One week to go until our Winter Graduation ceremonies! 💙🎓

If you're graduating at the end of the month, head to gcu.ac.uk/graduation for everything you need to know about graduations.

#GlasgowCaledonianUniversity #graduation #graduations #Classof2025
Glasgow Caledonian University graduation ceremony at The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.
November 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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New research from Glasgow Caledonian University and @uofglasgow.bsky.social concludes that Generation Z is the most likely age group to buy clothes impulsively online. 👗

🔗 Read more: www.gcu.ac.uk/aboutgcu/uni...
Person shopping online.
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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📢 New festival coming to Glasgow with Boney M headlining 🎶

A Glasgow Caledonian University graduate who donated ambulances to help refugees in war zones is organising a cultural festival to raise funds for other vehicles. 👏

Learn more ⬇️
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/scottis...
Umran Ali Javaid with an ambulance car in the background.
November 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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A third-year computing student from Glasgow Caledonian University has won a prestigious technology competition after creating a groundbreaking app to help people with learning disabilities share their views. 👏

🔗 Read the full story: www.gcu.ac.uk/aboutgcu/uni...
Adam Bowie (fourth from left)
November 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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🧬🔬GCU has significantly strengthened its scientific teaching and research capacity thanks to a major donation of 24 advanced real-time PCR machines from biomedical company BioGrad

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Glasgow Caledonian University Receives Major Lab Upgrade With BioGrad PCR Donation | Glasgow City Of Science & Innovation
Glasgow Caledonian University has boosted its research and teaching capabilities with a major donation of cutting-edge laboratory equipment from biomedical company BioGrad.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Glasgow Caledonian University was proud to recognise outstanding contributions to Scottish healthcare at this year’s Scotland's Health Awards. 👏

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Glasgow Caledonian University was proud to recognise outstanding contributions to Scottish healthcare at this year’s Scotland's Health Awards. 👏 Our School of Health and Life Sciences Dean… | Gl...
Glasgow Caledonian University was proud to recognise outstanding contributions to Scottish healthcare at this year’s Scotland's Health Awards. 👏 Our School of Health and Life Sciences Dean Professor...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Team ResByte Games, a group of recent graduates from Glasgow Caledonian University, has been named one of four national winners of the Tranzfuser 2025 competition. 🎮

🔗 Read the full story: www.gcu.ac.uk/aboutgcu/uni...
Left-to-right: Adam Thompson, Andrew Proudfoot, Jamie Caldwell. Photo: Tranzfuser.
November 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Our MBA has been recognised as one of the best in the world in the 2025 Corporate Knights' Better World MBA Ranking. 👏

The Global MBA is available to study in Glasgow and London. Learn more ⬇️
www.gcu.ac.uk/study/course...
Corporate Knights Top 40 Better World MBA Ranking logo featuring a globe and a brown ribbon banner.
November 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Join us for our next Alumni Online Talk, featuring GCU graduate Stephen Mulvenna (The Coca-Cola Company). 💻

📅 November 13, 2025
🕒 4pm (UK time)

🔗 Register now on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/alumni-onl...
Alumni Online Talk with GCU alumnus Stephen Mulvenna, who currently works at The Coca-Cola Company.
November 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Datavysts, a new international project led by data researchers at Glasgow Caledonian University, is taking a fresh approach to artificial intelligence by using it to help people and communities. 🌍

Learn more on our website ⬇️
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November 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Professor Cam Donaldson is featuring in a new BBC series on the future of the NHS in Scotland. 🎙️

🔗 Listen now on BBC Sounds from 1hr 30mins into the programme: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Logo of BBC Radio Scotland and photo of Professor Cam Donaldson
November 4, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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GCU is leading a new international project to help close the skills gap in renewable energy and AI across Nigeria’s power sector. 💡
November 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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📢 The Trimester A exam timetable is now available on our website!

The exam diet runs from Monday 8 December to Wednesday 17 December 2025.

🔗 Check the exam timetable now on our website: www.gcu.ac.uk/currentstude...
Student studying in the George Moore Building
November 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Thinking about postgraduate studies? 🎓

Join us for our Postgraduate Open Evening on 6 November to find out more about studying at Glasgow Caledonian!

📅 Thursday, 6 November 2025
🕒 4.30pm - 6.30pm

🔗 Book your place now on our website: www.gcu.ac.uk/study/opendays
Poster advertising Glasgow Caledonian's postgraduate Open Evening, taking place on 6 November between 4.30pm-6.30pm. The image features a postgraduate student wearing a blue buttoned shirt in the Sir Alex Ferguson Library.
October 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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GCU's Dr Firdous Nazir has been named Academic of the Year at the prestigious Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Awards, recognising his outstanding contribution to innovation and collaboration between universities and industry. 🏅

🔗 Learn more: www.gcu.ac.uk/aboutgcu/uni...
Dr Firdous Ul Nazir at the prestigious Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Awards
October 30, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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A talented graduate from our MA TV Fiction Writing programme has been awarded a place on Channel 4's New Writers Scheme. ✍

Isla Robertson is one of 17 emerging writers from across the UK handpicked for the prestigious 9-month programme. 👏

Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/3LeSAsX
GCU alumna Isla Robertson and the logo of Channel 4.
October 29, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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A groundbreaking sexual health project that created innovative films to tackle STI stigma and boost testing among young people has won the 2025 BMA Foundation MEDFASH Award. 👏

🔗 Read the full story: www.gcu.ac.uk/aboutgcu/uni...
Photo shows (L-R) – BMA President Professor Dame Parveen Kumar, who presented the awards, André Bright, Amelia McInnes-Dean and Professor David Nott, who spoke at the awards.
October 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Every day, the GCU Widening Participation and Outreach Team works tirelessly to help make higher education accessible to everyone. 💙

Discover a day in the life of our Widening Participation and Outreach Team and how they make a difference ⬇️
www.gcu.ac.uk/aboutgcu/uni...
GCU student mentor with pupils during an outreach event.
October 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Leading physiotherapist Dr David Hamilton has showcased his expertise to millions of viewers after appearing twice in one week on BBC Morning Live. 📺

📽️ Watch now:

👉 segment 1: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

👉 segment 2: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Dr David Hamilton GCU Physiotherapist Dr David Hamilton with Morning Live’s resident GP Dr Punam Krishan and a physiotherapy student.
October 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Thanks to GCU research led by Prof Sharon Hutchinson & Prof Andrew McAuley, Scotland is on track to eliminate Hepatitis C ahead of the WHO 2030 target. Cases down 80%, deaths down 65% and over 80% treated. 👏
October 28, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Autumn vibes on our Glasgow campus 🍂

What's your favourite spot on campus this time of the year? Let us know below. ✍️
The Sir Alex Ferguson Library covered in vibrant red ivy under a clear blue sky. Students sitting outside on wooden benches in the patio behind the George Moore Building. The concourse between the CEE Building and the ARC gym under the blue sky. Exterior view of Glasgow Caledonian University's Annie Lennox Building with students walking nearby on a clear day.
October 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) proudly marks Care Experienced Week 2025, recognising and celebrating the achievements and resilience of care-experienced and estranged students across Scotland. 💙

🔗 Read more: www.gcu.ac.uk/aboutgcu/uni...

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Glasgow Caledonian University students on campus in July 2024.
October 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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The island communities of Barra and Vatersay in the Outer Hebrides are on the frontline of climate change, with rising sea levels and increasingly frequent, intense storms eroding coastlines and threatening homes and livelihoods. 🌊
October 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM