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About SFC

Last Updated: 4 December 2024

Published: 25 February 2020

This privacy notice advises what personal data we collect, how we use it, what your rights are in relation to your personal data and how to contact us if you have any questions or concerns about the use of personal data.

TQEF: Enhancing the student learning experience through partnership 

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Quality

Last Updated: 30 September 2024

Published: 16 April 2024

This briefing has been designed to provide you with information about the development of Scotland’s Tertiary Quality Enhancement Framework (TQEF).

WorldSkills UK Competitions: An Incredible Journey for Our Students

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Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 13 January 2025

Published: 10 December 2024

Lisa Nicholson from New College Lanarkshire writes about what WorldSkills means to the College, its students and employers.

Scottish Students competing at the Tokyo Olympics

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Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 23 July 2021

Swimmer Duncan Scott describes his experience of training throughout the pandemic and getting to the Olympics.

Scottish Research Alliance for Energy, Homes and Livelihoods

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Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 13 January 2025

Published: 13 January 2025

Professor Mette High reflects on the first year success of the Scottish Research Alliance for Energy, Houses and Livelihoods.

Let’s talk about diversity

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Fair Access

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 28 April 2020

Karen introduces SFC’s new blog series about diversity.

What the COVID-19 emergency is teaching us about our institutions

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Learning and Teaching

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 22 June 2020

SFC Chief Executive, Karen Watt, pays tribute to the early response by Scotland’s colleges and universities to the pandemic.

Let’s talk about race

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Fair Access

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 16 March 2021

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

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Last Updated: 12 January 2024

Published: 12 January 2024

What I know about knowledge

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Fair Access

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 3 December 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 January 2024

Published: 17 June 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 February 2024

Published: 27 May 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 January 2024

Published: 28 April 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 January 2024

Published: 22 June 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 January 2024

Published: 21 December 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 August 2024

Published: 15 August 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 January 2024

Published: 11 February 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 January 2024

Published: 28 April 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 January 2024

Published: 14 January 2020

National Ambition for Care-Experienced Students.

Mediating multilingualism – in Scotland and India

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Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 21 February 2020

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

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