@uwshsl Nurse Wins @GutsCharityUK Nursing Award
Congratulations to Lainie Lawson a UWS nursing graduate who has won the Nurse Recognition award at the Guts UK charity awards 2019. Lainie was presented with her award and a £1,000 prize at a dinner…
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Latest NSS Results Reveal High Satisfaction Levels with UWS Programmes
New results from The National Student Survey for 2019 (NSS) show that student satisfaction at UWS was over 90% in more than 14 of its academic programmes, with sports and exercise science achieving a 100%…
@uwshls Dementia & Multispecies Caring Workshop Report Available.
A very successful workshop event was held by our School on the 28th May 2019 at our Lanarkshire Campus which looked at ‘Dementia & Multi-Species Caring: Current Practice & Future Possibilities’ Fifty-eight people attended the workshop…
@NicolaSturgeon Opens @UniWestScotland Lanarkshire Campus
Our award-winning Lanarkshire Campus was officially opened earlier this morning (24th of June 2019) by The Rt. Hon. Nicola Sturgeon MSP, First Minister of Scotland. The event was a special opportunity to celebrate our sector-defining new…
Linda Presents at 30th Annual SNNG Conference
Linda Hannah (Lead of the Graduate Certificate in Neonatal Nursing programme) presented at the 30th. Annual Scottish Neonatal Nurses’ Group’s annual conference held in in Perth on Friday 7th June 2019. She presented with two…
UWS Rises in the 2020 Guardian University Rankings
We are absolutely delighted to announce a significant jump for UWS in The Guardian University Guide rankings for 2020. We have climbed to 106th from 114th in the UK out of 121 universities, with the…
Maureen Bell, Recognised in Queens Birthday Honours List
Our warmest congratulation go to our colleague Nurse Lecturer Maureen Bell who received an OBE in the Queens Birthday honours list released last week. Maureen was formerly nurse consultant for vulnerable children, NHS Ayrshire and…
Professor Tolson Speaking at RCN’s “My Right to Nursing” Debate for #DAW2019
As part of Scotland’s Dementia Awareness Week the Royal College of Nursing Scotland is hosting a Debate ‘My Right to Nursing’: Dementia as a Health and Social Care Issue on Thursday 6th June at 6pm in the Tollbooth,…
Welcome Findings in @ScotFundCouncil Widening Access Report
The Third Scottish Funding Council report on Widening Access to students from disadvantaged backgrounds was released on the 29th of May. The report shows that UWS continues to be Scotland’s leading university for Widening Access. The…
The UWS STARS Awards 2019
Congratulations to all the winners at our 9th annual Staff Appreciation & Recognition Scheme (STARS Awards) 2019 . The Awards ceremony weas held at Lanarkshire Campus this week. 100 guests attended the event comprising of shortlisted…