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Planning the digital revolution

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Learning and Teaching

Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 9 October 2020

Report takes a bold look into the future and how to prepare for it .

£730,250 confirmed to support Students’ Associations

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Student Interests

Funding

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 27 January 2021

The Scottish Funding Council has today confirmed the allocation of £730,250 for Students’ Associations.

Report confirms fair access success

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Fair Access

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 29 January 2021

New HESA data indicates progress in equality drive.

University demand at record high

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Fair Access

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 19 February 2021

UCAS figures show a 12.4 per cent rise in applicants to Scottish universities.

Empowering young people

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Fair Access

Last Updated: 16 January 2024

Published: 14 May 2021

How one college’s use of SFC’s child poverty funding is creating life changing opportunities.

Understanding and shaping the world through numbers

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Statistics

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 19 May 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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Net Zero

Funding

Last Updated: 16 January 2024

Published: 25 May 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 January 2024

Published: 3 June 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 January 2024

Published: 18 June 2021

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

Fair access target met two years early

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Statistics

Fair Access

Last Updated: 16 January 2024

Published: 30 June 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 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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Research and Innovation

Fair Access

Governance

Learning and Teaching

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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

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