Scottish LibDem leader, Willie Rennie MSP, has announced his party’s team of spokespeople. The team, with a gender balance of seven women and five men, sees Tavish Scott MSP (Shetland Islands) a former leader of the party, take up the role of spokesperson on Education and sport. The newly elected MSP Mike Rumbles (North East Scotland)…
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May
27
2016
Reaction to Sutton Trust report: Access in Scotland
Universities Scotland responded to a report on access to university published today [Friday, 27 May] by the Sutton Trust. The report, Access in Scotland, is a comparative assessment of widening access policy and performance across the UK. Commenting on the report, a spokesperson said: “Universities deeply share the First Minister’s commitment to enabling people to realise their…
May
26
2016
Universities Scotland responds to the Final Report of the Growing Value Scotland Task Force
Responding to the publication today, Thursday 26 May, of the Final Report of the Growing Value Scotland Task Force by the National Centre for Universities and Business (NCUB), Universities Scotland’s Director, Alastair Sim said: “Scottish business leaders make clear in this report that support for our universities is vital if the nation is to…
May
26
2016
EU Referendum: the issues as they affect higher education in Scotland
Our Director, Alastair Sim, has written an extended piece for The Scotsman’s ‘Scotland’s future series’, considering the EU Referendum. Alastair considers the impact losing EU funding could have on scientific research in his piece first published on Thursday, 26 May. Alastair: David Lurie is working on the next generation of MRI scanner. A scanner so…
May
23
2016
How your business can benefit from working with Scotland’s universities
Heather Alexander is Marketing Manager at Interface, the knowledge connection for organisations to universities and research institutions for the support they need to create and develop new products, services and processes. This free and impartial service has been designed to save businesses time and money in finding an academic partner and it has already helped hundreds of…
May
19
2016
Deputy First Minister, John Swinney MSP, appointed Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills
Universities Scotland has welcomed the appointment of Deputy First Minister, John Swinney MSP as Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills and Shirley-Anne Somerville MSP as Minister for Further Education, Higher Education and Science in the Scottish Cabinet reshuffle. The appointment of this portfolio reinforces the importance that The First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has placed on…
May
09
2016
Funding sources and fee income
Universities Scotland was asked for comment by the Herald newspaper for an article it published on Saturday 7 May about tuition fees from rUK and international students as a growing source of income in Scotland. The article follows publication of a report published by Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) Finances of Higher Education Providers 2014/15…
April
26
2016
Scottish universities see £16 million boost in philanthropic giving
Universities Scotland has responded to a report published in today’s Herald Newspaper which shows that philanthropic donations to universities increased by 42 per cent in 2014/15 compared to the previous year. The Ross-CASE Report 2016: Giving to Excellence: Generating Philanthropic Support for UK Higher Education found that philanthropic donations from alumni and other donors amounted…
April
26
2016
Philanthropy supports research which changes lives
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Siddharthan Chandran is the MacDonald Professor of Neurology at the University of Edinburgh and Director of both the Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neurone Disease Research and the Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic. Professor Chandran works in the emerging discipline of Regenerative Neurology, combining laboratory and clinical research to understand and work towards new therapies…
April
22
2016
What next for Scottish higher education after the 2016 Scottish Parliament election?
Scots will go to the polls on Thursday 5 May to choose who gets to form a Scottish Government for the next five years. With the campaign in full swing, and with just one more manifesto to be published, our Director, Alastair Sim, writes about what the outcome of the election could mean for Scotland’s…