The paper has reported on sex tourism in Vietnam,[3] racist door policies of Glasgow nightclubs[4] and conducted the first ever independent staff satisfaction survey which revealed doubts about the university management strategy.

In 2004 Guardian revealed a CIA officer was working as a lecturer in the Politics department[5] and a year later that Glasgow University Union had been spending part of its grant on a pornography channel subscription,[6] money which had been intended for front line student services.

In the same year, it ran an undercover investigation into sub-standard and dangerous student housing, which was described by the editor of The Herald as "campaigning journalism at its best".

[7] In 2006, it also reported that university management were rewarding big donors with honorary degrees.

More recently, the Guardian covered debategate,[9] which hit national media headlines after two female students from Edinburgh and Cambridge were reportedly heckled in a sexist manner by members of the Glasgow University Union.