About Us

• About us

• Council Board & committees

  • Council Board and committees

  • Committee papers

    • Committee papers

  • Council committees

    • Council committees

    • Access & Inclusion Committee

      • Access and Inclusion Committee Standing Orders
      • Access and Inclusion Committee

    • Audit & Compliance Committee

      • Audit and Compliance Committee Standing Orders
      • Audit Committee

    • QEGPC

      • Quality Equalities and General Purposes Committee
      • Quality Equalities and General Purposes Committee standing orders

    • Remuneration Committee

      • Remuneration Committee
      • Remuneration Committee Standing Orders

    • RKEC

      • Research and Knowledge Exchange Committee
      • Research and Knowledge Exchange committee standing orders
      • Dr John Rogers register of interests

    • Skills Committee

      • Skills Committee
      • Colin Hood register of interests
      • David J R Macrae register of interests
      • Janet Brown register of interests
      • John Stephen Carter register of interests
      • Martin McGuire register of interests
      • Petra Wend register of interests
      • Stuart Graham Leitch register of interests
      • Sylvia Halkerston register of interests
      • Skills Committee Standing Orders

  • Council membership

    • Alan Stannett
    • Professor Albert Rodger
    • Alison Jarvis
    • Anton Muscatelli
    • Audrey Cumberford
    • Janet Lowe
    • John McClelland
    • Keith Nicholson
    • About Laurence Howells
    • Lindsay Burley
    • Maggie Kinloch
    • Marlene Wood
    • Paul McKelvie
    • Robin Crawford
    • Council membership
    • Anton Muscatelli register of interests
    • Keith Nicholson register of interests
    • Laurence Howells register of interests

  • Council papers and meeting dates

    • Council dates
    • Council papers

  • Council Governance

    • Governance of the Council

• Who we fund

  • Who we fund
  • Colleges that we fund
  • Universities and Higher Education institutions that we fund

• Letter of guidance

  • Letter of guidance

• Our conduct

  • Access to information
  • How we communicate
  • How we consult
  • Our commitment to equality and diversity
  • Funding appeals
  • Information and communications technology (ICT) Policies
  • Our standards of service
  • Complaints against colleges and universities
  • Cothrom air fiosrachadh
  • Complaints against the Council
  • Equality and SFC
  • National Fraud Initiative
  • Public Services Reform Act
  • Salary Details

  • Monthly spend

    • Monthly spend reports

• Our organisation

  • Coherent Provision
  • Colleges and post-92 Universities
  • Communications Team
  • Finance and Corporate Resources Group
  • Funding Policy
  • Further Education Development Group
  • Learning, Governance and Sustainability Group
  • Our organisation
  • Research Intensives and SSIs

• Partner bodies

  • Partner bodies

• Strategic plan

  • Our strategic plan

• What we do

  • What we do

Funding

• Funding

• Capital

  • Capital funding

  • College capital projects

    • College capital projects

• Funding for Colleges

  • Allocation of funding

  • Teaching funding

    • College teaching funding

  • ESF

    • European Social Fund
    • European Social Funds - Investing in Recovery
    • European Social Fund Priority 5 AY 2011-12
    • European Social Fund Priority 5 AY 2012-13
    • European Social Fund Seminar

  • ESOL

    • ESOL - Additional ESOL funding
    • ESOL 2007-08
    • ESOL 2008-09
    • ESOL 2009-10
    • ESOL 2010-11
    • ESOL 2011-12

  • Strategic investments

    • Evaluation of SFC Strategic Investments

  • Student support

    • Bursary funds
    • Bursary support
    • Discretionary fund
    • Information for student support administrators
    • Student applications for funding
    • Student support
    • How does SFC develop student support policies?
    • Student support regulations
    • Student Support seminar 2012
    • Student Support Seminar 2013
    • What are EMAs?

• Funding decisions

  • Funding Decisions
  • Previous Funding Decisions

• Funding Outcomes

  • Funding Outcomes

  • Access & inclusion

    • Access outcome

    • Access to high demand professions

      • Access to the high demand professions
      • Access to the high demand professions details

    • BRITE

      • BRITE

    • Care leavers programme

      • Care leavers programme
      • Care leavers programme evaluation and progress
      • Developing a Quality Mark for Scottish Colleges

    • Case studies

      • ESOL Dundee College
      • Lift off to Success
      • Stow College
      • The Study China Programme
      • UHI Video Conferencing

    • Equality & diversity

      • Disability guidance notes
      • Disability resources
      • Equality and diversity
      • Equality and diversity information and resources
      • Guidelines for creating an accessible environment
      • Impact assessment results

    • Learning for All

      • Learning for All
      • Learning for All 2010
      • Learning for All 2011
      • Learning for All 2012

    • External Links

      • Access Inclusion and Progression links

    • Schools for Higher Education Programme

      • Schools for Higher Education Programme

  • College regional structures

    • College regional structures outcome

    • Case studies

    • External links

    • Partnerships

      • Partnerships

    • Regions

  • Governance

    • Adam Smith College Review
    • Governance outcome

    • Case studies

      • Construction Improvement Club
      • City of Glasgow College
      • Queen Margaret University
      • University of Dundee
      • James Watt College
      • Learning in Future Environments case study

    • Efficient Government

      • Efficient Government

    • Financial sustainability

      • Financial sustainability

    • Institutional governance

      • College and university governance

    • External Links

      • Effective Institutions links

    • Sustainable development

      • Specialist Review
      • Sustainable development
      • Sustainable Development Conference 2009

    • TRAC

      • Transparent Approach to Costing

  • Knowledge Exchange

    • Knowledge Exchange outcomes

    • Business

      • For Business

    • Case studies

      • University of Abertay Dundee
      • Concrete given new lease of life through knowledge exchange partnership
      • Glasgow School of Art
      • Heriot-Watt University
      • Marine power research project
      • Scottish Medical Visualisation Network
      • Queen Margaret University
      • Queen Margaret University chocolate research
      • Energy-efficient food processing
      • University of West of Scotland

    • Innovation Centres

      • Knowledge Exchange

    • External Links

      • Knowledge Exchange links

    • SPIRIT strategic competition 2009-12

      • SPIRIT: strategic competition 2009-12

  • Learners

    • Learners outcome

    • Case studies

    • Externallinks

    • ICT Strategy

      • e-Learning

    • Quality assurance & enhancement

      • Quality assurance and enhancement
      • Learner engagement
      • Quality enhancement of learning for staff
      • Quality in Scotland's colleges
      • Quality in Scotland's universities

    • SCQF

      • Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework

  • Provision

    • Provision outcome

    • Case studies

    • External links

    • Gaelic language

      • Gaelic language

    • Patterns of provision

  • Research

    • Research outcome

    • Case studies

      • The Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World
      • Scottish Universities Life Sciences Alliance (SULSA)
      • Instant scans give extra insights into causes of illness
      • Scottish Imaging Network
      • Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
      • Scottish Institute for Policing Research

    • Global engagement

      • Global engagement

    • External Links

      • Research links

    • Researcher career development

      • Researcher career development and postgraduate research students

    • Research excellence

      • History of the development of the REF Framework
      • Research assessment
      • Research Excellence Framework

    • Research Pools

      • Research Pools

    • SRDG

      • Strategic Research Development Grant

  • Skills & employability

    • Skills outcome

    • Case studies

      • ESOL Aberdeen College
      • Adam Smith College
      • ESOL Banff and Buchan
      • Energy Skills Academy
      • Case study GCU Employability
      • Kilmarnock College
      • Open University - skills utilisation success
      • Scottish Textiles Project

    • Employability & enterprise

      • Employability and enterprise

    • Learning to Work

      • Learning to Work Two consultation responses
      • Learning to Work
      • Learning to Work Two: Work Placement Projects
      • Monitoring and evaluation

    • External Links

      • Employability and Skills links

    • On Track

    • Skills Committee Resources

      • Skills Committee Resources

      • Skills Newsletters

        • Skills Committee Newsletter

• Funding policy

• Outcome Agreements

  • Outcome Agreements Overview

• Funding for Universities

  • University funding allocations

  • KE funding

    • Funding for Knowledge Exchange

  • Research Funding

    • Funding for Research

  • Teaching funding

    • University teaching funding

Further Education Development

• What FED does

Guidance

• Guidance Search

• Capital Projects

  • Building Ambition
  • Guidance for capital projects
  • Learning Landscapes in Higher Education
  • Post Occupancy Evaluation

• Funding Guidance

  • Intake targets

  • CollegeFundingGuidance

  • UniversityFundingGuidance

• Governance Guidance

  • Govenance & sustainability guidance

  • Financial memorandum

    • Financial memorandum
    • Mandatory requirements

  • Financial sustainability

    • Call for information: Strategic plan forecast for higher education institutions 2012-13 to 2015-16
    • Provisions for enhanced pensions
    • College and university governance

  • Institutional governance

    • Institutional governance guidance

• Mergers

  • Mergers guidance introduction

  • Background

    • Background (College reform)

  • Communication

    • Communication issues
    • Communication issues and approaches
    • Consultation and engagement methods

  • CultureLeadership

    • The behaviour of institutional leaders
    • The importance of culture
    • Culture and leadership
    • Leadership and trust

  • DefiningMergers

    • Defining mergers and federations
    • Decision in principle to merge or federate
    • What are the distinguishing features of mergers and federations?

  • MergerContent

    • Content of the merger proposal
    • Evidence in support of the merger proposal

  • MergerProcess

    • Consider and agree the model of merger
    • Guidance on the appointment of the Principal
    • Making the case for merger or a federation
    • Consider aspects of culture
    • Due diligence
    • Early discussions with staff and students
    • Merger implementation
    • Options appraisal
    • Pace of the development of the merger
    • Agreement of the governing bodies
    • The merger process
    • The role of the Project Manager
    • Begin preparing the merger or federation proposal, including the business case
    • Discussions with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator
    • Begin discussions with the Scottish Government

  • ModelsofMerger

    • Impact of models of merger
    • Models of merger key considerations
    • Models of merger

  • Resources

    • Resources

  • RoleCouncil

    • Role of the Council

  • StudentEngagement

    • NUS Scotland support
    • Student engagement

  • WhotoContact

    • Who to contact

• Outcome agreements

  • College outcome agreements guidance
  • Meeting notes of the Thematic Working Groups
  • University outcome agreements guidance

• Submitting statistical information

  • Submitting statistical information

  • DataCollectionSchedule

    • Statistical data collection schedule

  • Further Education statistical data

    • Further Education statistical data
    • Guidance notes 2009-10
    • Guidance notes 2010-11
    • Guidance notes 2011-12
    • Guidance notes 2012-13
    • Guidance notes 2013-14

    • Data 2012-13

    • Data 2013-14

      • FES 2013-14

  • Higher Education statistical data

    • HE statistical data

Housekeeping

• Copyright © SFC

• Glossary

  • Glossary

NewsInformation

• News, Events & Circulars

• Circulars

  • Circulars

• Consultations

  • Consultations

• Deadlines

  • Deadlines

• Events

  • Student Support Seminar 2013

• Media centre

  • Communications contacts

    • Communications Contacts

  • Facts & figures

  • News digest

    • Scottish Funding Council SFC News

  • Picture Gallery

    • Picture Gallery

  • Press Releases

    • Press Releases

  • Using the SFC logo

    • Submit a case study
    • Using the SFC logo

• Tenders

  • Tenders and procurements

• Vacancies

  • Vacancies
  • Background information
  • Data Protection notice

ReportsPublications

• SFC reports and publications
• SFC corporate publication schedule

Statistics

• Statistics

• Headline Statistics

  • 0910

    • Headline statistics 2009-10

  • 1011

    • Headline statistics 2010-11

• FE estates management data

  • FE estates management data

• Further education statistics

  • EMA online

    • EMA online

  • FE Performance Indicators

    • Student and staff performance indicators for Scotland’s further education colleges
    • Financial performance indicators
    • FE Performance Indicators

  • FES Online

    • FES Online

  • Geographic data

    • Geographic data

  • Infact database

    • Infact database

• Higher education statistics

  • HE estates management data

    • HE estates management data

  • HE Performance Indicators

    • Participation indicators for Scottish HEIs documents
    • HE Performance Indicators

  • Statistical bulletins

    • Statistical bulletins

• IGS Committee

  • Institutional Group on Statistics Committee

• Participation

  • Participation

• SAGE Committee

  • Statistical Advisory Group for Further Education committee