Gavin Newlands, SNP MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire North, has visited the Students’ Association of the University of the West of Scotland (SAUWS) to congratulate the incoming Student President on her election success. Emma Shotter, who currently serves as the organisation’s Vice President for Education was elected earlier this year and will formally take up her new post in July. Mr Newlands met with the President-elect to discuss the issues currently facing UWS students, and

Gavin Newlands, MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire North, has met with the local Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament, Josh Kennedy and Maria Alam, who have been campaigning hard over the recent decision by McGill’s Buses to scrap the Student Day Ticket. McGill’s announced recently that the £3 Student Day Ticket wouldn’t be offered from 22nd January onwards, leaving students to either buy adult day tickets at £4.20, or Student Weekly tickets at £15.71, when they may only nee

Gavin Newlands, MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire North, has welcomed the announcement from the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, that the SNP Scottish Government are committed to preserving free tuition and the student bursary for all eligible trainee nurses and midwives. The First Minister told delegates at the Royal College of Nursing Congress in Glasgow that the Scottish Government will retain the bursary support package for eligible nursing and midwifery students in Scotlan