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New data reveals the economic impact delivered by Scotland’s 19 universities and higher education institutions at £17.1 billion and highlights that Scotland’s higher education sector offers a better economic return on public investment made in research and innovation than anywhere else in the UK, except London, with a benefit-to-cost ratio of nearly 11:1. As the Scottish Government focuses on its

The Glasgow School of Art’s Postgraduate Degree Show 2024 continues today with the launch of exhibitions across the School of Design, School of Innovation & Technology and the Mackintosh School of Architecture, which will run till Sunday 8th September. Each of the individual departments across the School provide an impressive glimpse into the innovation, creativity and energy that this new generation of

The Glasgow School of Art’s Postgraduate Degree Show 2024 opens in Glasgow from tomorrow in what is one of Glasgow’s largest public exhibitions of work from some of the world’s leading creative graduates.  The School of Fine Art exhibition opens on Friday 23 and runs until Thursday 29 August, presenting work from the MLitt Art Writing, MLitt Curatorial Practice and

A review by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA), the UK’s independent quality body, has expressed confidence in The Glasgow School of Art’s progress in continuing to monitor, review and enhance its higher education provision to enable effective arrangements to be in place for managing academic standards and the quality of the student learning experience. The review, carried

School Of Architecture Graduate, Euan Clarke, receives the GSA’s highest undergraduate accolade for his graduate thesis project: Datascape, Aygaldes Park, Marseille.  Photo – Andy Buchanan.  Euan Clarke, an MSA Stage 5 graduate from The Glasgow School of Art’s School of Architecture, received the 2024 Newbery Medal, announced today, Friday 12 July. Named after the GSA’s celebrated director Francis ‘Fra’ Newbery, the award is

Three students from The Glasgow School of Art’s Product Design Engineering course; Isabel Payne, Jake Lee and Jem Mitchell, have swept the top three positions in this year’s Design Innovation in Plastics (DIP) competition.  All three winners collect cash prizes and industry placements as part of their award. This year’s contestants were asked to design an off-grid product for independent

  Silversmithing & Jewellery Graduate Kyle Ferguson.  Photo credit Mark Cocksedge. Kyle Ferguson, a Glasgow School of Art student from Silversmithing & Jewellery’s 2024 graduate cohort has been awarded the prestigious New Designer of the Year Award during Week One of the 39th edition of New Designers.  The annual event celebrates the best emerging talent in the UK, featuring over 3,000 design

© Alan Mcateer photograph 2023   The Glasgow School of Art announced today (8th July) that Reiach and Hall with Purcell have been appointed to undertake the addendum to the Strategic Outline Business Case (SOBC).  The Strategic Outline Business Case was published in 2021 and the SOBC Addendum will identify the appropriate route to delivery of the faithful reinstatement of

Artist, jeweller, leading design educator and GSA alumna Professor Dorothy Hogg MBE (1945-2022) originated the Tree Project in 2018 as a way of celebrating the careers of talented Scottish design graduates in the field of Jewellery and Silversmithing whose professional lives, in diverse ways, demonstrated the positive impact of craft-based courses to successful careers.  Dorothy’s own distinguished role as Head of

Self portrait, Bread Street, May (1993), Sandra George. Courtesy of Craigmillar Now.  The Glasgow School of Art Exhibitions presents a solo exhibition of Sandra George (1957-2013), as part of the open Programme for Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2024.  Born in Nottingham, Sandra George lived the first seven years of her life in Jamaica with her mother, before moving