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Understanding and shaping the world through numbers

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Statistics

Last Updated: 4 Am Faoilleach 2024

Published: 19 An Cèitean 2021

An SFC insider talks us through why maths and numbers are so important this National Numeracy Day.

Investing in our planet’s future

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Funding

Last Updated: 16 Am Faoilleach 2024

Published: 25 An Cèitean 2021

Over £30m available to Scottish universities in 2021-22 for climate emergency projects.

Supporting student entrepreneurship at NCL

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Student Interests

Last Updated: 4 Am Faoilleach 2024

Published: 3 An t-Ògmhios 2021

Ross Brand discusses how NCL has supported student entrepreneurship and how this evolved throughout lockdown.

Celebrating higher education

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Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 16 Am Faoilleach 2024

Published: 18 An t-Ògmhios 2021

National HE Awards recognise achievements in supporting students, communities and the NHS.

Fair access target met two years early

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Fair Access

Last Updated: 16 Am Faoilleach 2024

Published: 30 An t-Ògmhios 2021

New figures show 2021 target met by 2019 and equality at tertiary level for most deprived groups.

Scottish Students Going for Gold this Summer

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Student Interests

Last Updated: 16 Am Faoilleach 2024

Published: 8 An t-Iuchar 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 Am Faoilleach 2024

Published: 15 An t-Iuchar 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 Am Faoilleach 2024

Published: 22 An t-Iuchar 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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Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 4 Am Faoilleach 2024

Published: 15 An t-Sultain 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 Am Faoilleach 2024

Published: 25 An Dàmhair 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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Research and Innovation

Fair Access

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Learning and Teaching

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Student Interests

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Last Updated: 16 Am Faoilleach 2024

Published: 26 An Dàmhair 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 Am Faoilleach 2024

Published: 15 An Dùbhlachd 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 An Gearran 2025

Published: 28 Am Màrt 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 An Gearran 2025

Published: 30 Am Màrt 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 Am Faoilleach 2024

Published: 4 An Giblean 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 An Gearran 2025

Published: 11 An Cèitean 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 Am Faoilleach 2024

Published: 4 An t-Iuchar 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 An Gearran 2025

Published: 11 An Lùnastal 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 Am Faoilleach 2024

Published: 4 An Dàmhair 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 Am Faoilleach 2024

Published: 24 An Dàmhair 2022

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

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