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Scottish Students Going for Gold this Summer

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Student Interests

Last Updated: 16 January 2024

Published: 8 July 2021

Seonaid McIntosh is the first of many student athletes stories we'll be looking at this summer.

80% of students satisfied despite COVID

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Statistics

Last Updated: 16 January 2024

Published: 15 July 2021

NSS finds almost 80% of respondents studying in Scotland are satisfied with the quality of their course.

Responding to the Pandemic through Upskilling

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Skills and Lifelong Learning

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 22 July 2021

Dr Gill Murray of Heriot-Watt University discusses how they are using SFC’s Upskilling Fund to help come out of the global pandemic.

School college partnerships set to grow

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Statistics

Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 15 September 2021

New report shows potential for 12 percent or school pupils to study with a college

Paving the way to health and care jobs

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Last Updated: 16 January 2024

Published: 25 October 2021

The Education Minister learns how West Lothian College is equipping COVID workers for new jobs .

Government go-ahead for review recommendations

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Funding

Research and Innovation

Fair Access

Governance

Learning and Teaching

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Student Interests

Net Zero

Last Updated: 16 January 2024

Published: 26 October 2021

The Scottish Government has broadly accepted the recommendations of SFC’s review of Tertiary Education and Research.

Developing meaningful virtual placements during COVID-19

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Skills and Lifelong Learning

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 15 December 2021

How do you provide students with work placements during a pandemic? Creativity, collaboration and a can-do attitude was the answer at Borders College.

Finding solutions for tackling poverty

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Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 11 February 2025

Published: 28 March 2022

Today’s research impact case study looks at Glasgow Caledonian University’s work to alleviate poverty.

Collaborating to eliminate hunger

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Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 11 February 2025

Published: 30 March 2022

Today we look at the work being done by the University of Aberdeen to end hunger and achieve food security.

A hotbed of innovation in Mumbai

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Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 16 January 2024

Published: 4 April 2022

Today’s research impact focus is on how the University of the West of Scotland is changing lives in India

Improving energy efficiency

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Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 10 February 2025

Published: 11 May 2022

Researchers at Robert Gordon University are helping to make our homes greener in the move to net zero

Scottish higher education institutions sign Academic Integrity Charter

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Learning and Teaching

Last Updated: 16 January 2024

Published: 4 July 2022

All of Scotland’s HE institutions have signed a UK-wide Academic Integrity Charter, developed by the Quality Assurance Agency.

Skilfully meeting employers’ needs

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Funding

Last Updated: 7 February 2025

Published: 11 August 2022

SFC has published new guidance for the University Upskilling Fund with a breakdown of 2022-23 allocations.

Skills for the green revolution

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Net Zero

Last Updated: 9 January 2024

Published: 4 October 2022

To coincide with the 2022 Scotsman Green Skills Conference, college principal, Simon Hewitt, describes how Scotland’s colleges are providing skills for the green revolution and putting partnerships at the heart of future success.

Testing a revised approach to skills alignment

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Skills and Lifelong Learning

Last Updated: 9 January 2024

Published: 24 October 2022

SFC Chief Executive, Karen Watt, describes the Regional Pathfinders and SFC’s role in developing a revised approach to skills alignment.

Learning Places Scotland 2022

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Net Zero

Last Updated: 16 January 2024

Published: 14 November 2022

National event to share best practice around learning estates takes place on 15 and 16 November.

Shaping future investment

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Governance

Funding

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 24 November 2022

New strategy lays out approach to investment in Scotland’s college estate.

Quality in colleges and universities – we’re not that different

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Learning and Teaching

Last Updated: 9 January 2024

Published: 23 February 2023

Nichola Kett, Head of Quality Assurance and Enhancement at Edinburgh University, reflects on her SFC secondment as we progress with the development of a common approach to quality in the tertiary sector.

Motoring to success

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Skills and Lifelong Learning

Last Updated: 9 January 2024

Published: 8 March 2023

This International Women’s Day we celebrate women’s achievements and forging change. Student Tori-Leigh Adams describes how West Lothian College has put her on track to run her own business.

Forging alliances for the future

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Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 16 January 2024

Published: 9 March 2023

Investments announced for new research partnerships in brain health, energy and food.

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