THE AGM of the Unite West of Scotland Branch, which I chair, was a tense affair because the main components of the branch, Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) and Glasgow School of Arts (GSA) both face funding crises.The GCU management have announced plans to cut up to 100 posts through a “targeted” voluntary redundancy scheme in response to an estimated deficit of £10 million which is a result, management claim, of reduced numbers of international students, mainly due to a collapse in recruitment at the university’s London campus — a debacle covered by the Financial Times.