Talks scheduled to try and end college strike row

One student who has been affected by the action is Ryan Donachie, a mature student studying humanities at Glasgow Kelvin College.

He was due to complete an assessment on Monday but this was delayed because of the strike, and he does not know when the assessment will now take place.

Mr Donachie – who was recently elected as the college’s student president for welfare – told BBC Scotland News that he supported his lecturers’ cause and believes the college sector needs to be better funded.

He said: “Students have seen quite significant impacts over the past year. EIS FELA members have quite regularly been out on strike throughout the year to a point where we were almost seeing one strike a week.

“That has meant we’ve had assessments moved, we’ve had assessments changed.”

Mr Donachie said that because of the disruption, any student on a course which runs for more than a year would automatically move on to the next part of the course.

However, he was worried that this could actually harm any students who were not actually ready to move on.

Three more strikes are due next week with four the following week.