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This is a confusing article which seems to switch university title from Paisley University to West of Scotland without explaining competently. It should be clearly stated that the UWS only started Dec 2007RCM00 (talk) 19:09, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] Motto?

What's the university's motto? If it has one (Tongs ya Bass doesn't count), can someone add it here and over at List of mottos. THanks. -- John Fader (talk | contribs) 17:02, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I deleted part of a sentence that read more like advertising copy or promotional material ("...great place to study..." etc). This is surely inappropriate language for an encyclopedia. AlistairBerrill 19:39, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

The motto of Paisley College was 'Accingere in Ardua'. I do not know if the university has a motto now. Laurec 20:00, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] text referendum?

Can anyone cite a source for this? I can't find anything on it. I'm guessing local papers, but there's no mention of it on the SNP site that I can find.

There was also a referendum held at the UoP for the students, the results of which showed the students were against the name change. What happens now, I don't know.

[edit] Official - name change going ahead

The university court voted to go ahead with the name change, ignoring the student vote. There will be more press releases and PR on the subject to come.

[edit] University ratings

(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 22:07, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] University of the West of Scotland

I have merged University of the West of Scotland (old revision) here, on the basis that the institutional merger is complete, but the merged institution (i.e. including the former Bell College) is currently trading under the name "University of Paisley"[1]. In my view it's not worth having a stub up at University of the West of Scotland: it would just be a placeholder for a name that Paisley will (likely) assume in the future.

Editors might like to comb this article for inaccuracies: I've sourced some of it from the new website, but it (the Paisley website) looks as though it might need tweaking a bit: there are plenty of spelling mistakes, for a start. — mholland (talk) 11:55, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Hmm - this could be confusing. Manchester at least dug out their full name to distinguish between pre & post merger, but if the institution gets a new name then it may be best to use that to distinguish it all. Once a new name is in use can I suggest retaining the "University of Paisley" article as primarily historic/about the elements from Paisley in "UWS" (and also keep the Paisley and UWS categories separate, especially for alumni) and use UWS as a new article not a move? Timrollpickering 12:17, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
I agree. When a new name is approved, I'd support creating a new article for the institution established today, with a paragraph about how it called itself 'Paisley' for the first X weeks of its existence.
At least, I think that's what's going on here. I assume the Paisley name is being retained because Paisley is still authorised to be issuing degrees until the Government/Privy Council gets out its red pen. — mholland (talk) 12:38, 1 August 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Motto?

Should the University of Paisley page not be more than just a page redirecting to here and about the history of Paisley University and Paisley Technical College? 82.9.197.121 (talk) 19:05, 29 February 2008 (UTC)