Ahead of the Minister for Further Education, Higher Education and Science, Richard Lochhead MSP, giving evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Education and Skills Committee on Wednesday 27 January 2021, Universities Scotland provided evidence to update the Committee on the impact of the staggered restart of teaching in higher education. 

In the briefing, we call on the Scottish Government to offer critical worker status to university staff who are supporting students still in residence, delivering essential teaching, and undertaking research functions. We also highlight the importance of ensuring students who legitimately use the wellbeing exemption to make a permitted change of household do not then find themselves subject to on-the-spot fines and inadvertent criminalisation.

Read the full briefing here.