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Guidance for Foundation Apprenticeships 2024-25

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Skills and Lifelong Learning

Last Updated: 11 An t-Iuchar 2024

Published: 11 An t-Iuchar 2024

Guidance for colleges on the delivery of Foundation Apprenticeships in Academic Year 2024-25.

Consultation on ceasing publication of Students Eligible for Funding

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Statistics

Last Updated: 3 An t-Sultain 2024

Published: 5 An Lùnastal 2024

This consultation seeks views on our proposal to cease publication of the Students Eligible for Funding statistical publication.

University Financial Statements 2023-24

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Governance

Last Updated: 5 An t-Samhain 2024

Published: 25 An Dàmhair 2024

This Call for Information requests copies of audited 2023-24 financial statements and associated supporting information.

College Financial Statements and Returns 2023-24

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Governance

Last Updated: 13 An t-Samhain 2024

Published: 13 An t-Samhain 2024

Let’s talk about race

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Fair Access

Last Updated: 4 Am Faoilleach 2024

Published: 16 Am Màrt 2021

SFC-funded resources will support conversations about race, racism and whiteness.

What I know about knowledge

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Fair Access

Last Updated: 4 Am Faoilleach 2024

Published: 3 An Dùbhlachd 2019

SFC's Lynn Killick on how we can shape society through our approach to information.

Working with local business to reduce emissions and learn about electric vehicles

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Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 4 Am Faoilleach 2024

Published: 17 An t-Ògmhios 2021

How Dundee & Angus College have worked with local businesses to reduce emissions.

Reach out and aim high

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Fair Access

Last Updated: 14 An Gearran 2024

Published: 27 An Cèitean 2022

Reach is an SFC-funded widening access project for eligible secondary state school students interested in becoming a doctor, lawyer, dentist or vet. Here, Reach alumni write and talk about their experiences.

Going down to Massachusetts

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Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 4 Am Faoilleach 2024

Published: 28 An Giblean 2020

SFC’s Keith McDonald on the plan for Scottish universities to apply lessons from MIT’s innovation approach, following a recent visit to see ‘how the other half innovate’.

The Mystery Filling

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Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 4 Am Faoilleach 2024

Published: 22 An t-Ògmhios 2020

Angus Wark shares what it’s like working as a librarian at the National Library of Scotland.

Anti-Racism at Edinburgh College

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Fair Access

Last Updated: 9 Am Faoilleach 2024

Published: 21 An Dùbhlachd 2022

Edinburgh College's Sue Clyne discusses the anti-racism work undertaken at the college which led to it winning the Inclusive College Award at this year’s CDN College Awards.

Turning the tables – using Reverse Vivas to Demystify the PhD Examination Process

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Student Interests

Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 15 An Lùnastal 2024

Published: 15 An Lùnastal 2024

Dr Tim Storer from the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance shares a novel and innovative approach to making the often dreaded PhD viva examination less intimidating for students.

Hidden and overlooked: estranged young people in higher education

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Fair Access

Last Updated: 4 Am Faoilleach 2024

Published: 11 An Gearran 2019

Are estranged students visible at your institution? Is there support for them? Do they know about it and do they access it?

From access course to a PhD

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Fair Access

Last Updated: 4 Am Faoilleach 2024

Published: 28 An Giblean 2020

Dr Andrew McDiarmid shows how dreams can come true as he celebrates his ten year journey from online access course to history PhD at the University. This blog originally appeared on the One Dundee blog: blog.dundee.ac.uk/one-Dundee.

National Ambition launched for Scotland’s care-experienced students

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Fair Access

Last Updated: 16 Am Faoilleach 2024

Published: 14 Am Faoilleach 2020

National Ambition for Care-Experienced Students.

Mediating multilingualism – in Scotland and India

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Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 4 Am Faoilleach 2024

Published: 21 An Gearran 2020

On International Mother Language Day, Gordon Wells reflects on the value of multilingualism.

The Critical Engineer: change through the lens of Covid

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Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 4 Am Faoilleach 2024

Published: 8 An Dùbhlachd 2020

Paul Fagan describes how West College Scotland, the University of the Highlands and Islands and Forth Valley College have developed their Meta-skills (to help SMEs develop theirs).

COP26 – then, now and in the future

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Net Zero

Last Updated: 4 Am Faoilleach 2024

Published: 5 An Giblean 2022

Rebecca Petford from EAUC Scotland attended last year’s Climate Change Conference and reflects here on her thoughts and experiences on its impact on Scotland's tertiary education sector.

Pathfinders_DataReport

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Last Updated: 6 Am Màrt 2025

Published: 6 Am Màrt 2025

ESS Final Overarching Report Pathfinder Learning Sessions

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Skills and Lifelong Learning

Last Updated: 7 Am Màrt 2025

Published: 7 Am Màrt 2025

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