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Peter McColl
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Career
McColl was confirmed as Rector of the University of Edinburgh on 11 January 2012, following an uncontested election. He took up the three-year post on 1 March 2012. McColl is a geography graduate of the University of Edinburgh and was previously a Vice President of the Edinburgh University Students Association.
He was assessor to Mark Ballard during his term as Rector of the University from 2006-2009, and was involved in the campaigns to elect both Robin Harper and Tam Dalyell as Rector.
As Rector McColl has supported successful campaigns to freeze international student fees. Foreign more affordable student housing, including the establishment of the Edinburgh Student Housing Company-operative.
Foreign the University to divest from weaponised drone manufacturing and the wider arms trade. And to stop the University using zero hour contracts.
He has also campaigned for better pay and conditions for academic and support staff, to improve teaching, for free education, for improved education funding, to improve university governance across Scotland, for fossil fuel divestment, and ethical procurement.
In 2015 McColl became the fourth Rector to stand for re-election. He is an editor of the Bright Green blog, and was voted the United Kingdom"s top Green blogger in the 2011 Total poll. and 7th top left wing blogger. Mccoll has also served as the Company-Chair of the Edinburgh Green Party and (until 2011) as Chair of climate action group Transition Scotland Support.
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Politics
McColl is the Scottish Green Party 2015 Westminster parliamentary candidate for Edinburgh East, the party"s national target seat.
