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To complement the publication of the annual progress report for Graduate Apprenticeships (GAs), Professor Sally Smith writes about the benefits of GAs for individuals, employers and universities.

Scotland is Now is a brand new international marketing campaign for Scotland.

Interface partnership helps business growth in rural Scotland.

What happens when you get primary school kids together with undergraduates and PhD students to some of the key challenges we face in healthcare and climate change?

A student carer’s testimony on the difficulties student carers can face in their studies, and the award initiative underway to better understand the barriers they face.

Russell Moore, a HNC Childhood Practice student from Dunblane shares his story on what it’s like to prepare for a career in childcare at Forth Valley College.

A year in the life of SFC.

Barry Faichnie from Glasgow Clyde College looks at how increasing electric vehicle (EV) ownership is helping to tackle the climate emergency, and why colleges are well positioned to meet the demands of training and upskilling that comes with the move to EVs.

This year COVID-19 has upturned so many areas of society and the education sector is no different. Our Director of Access, Learning and Outcomes, James Dunphy explains why the pandemic makes our goals to widen access even more important.

The 2021 CAN DO Innovation Summit was a platform for sharing hard won insights and exciting new ideas for the future according to Dr Stuart Fancey, SFC’s Director of Research and Innovation.

SFC’s Jenny Jamieson makes the case for a larger and more diverse community of innovators

This summer we are looking at a number of Scottish athletes who have come through the Winning Students scholarship scheme.

This Scottish Careers week, Tracey Innes from the University of Aberdeen tells us why she loves working in the career’s team and why Careers Week is so important.

In the hands of the SFC-funded Brain Health ARC, the Bio-Hermes dataset offers the Scottish dementia research community a platform for new ideas, collaboration and early career development. Millie Mather explains more in our latest guest blog. During my working hours, I can be identified as the sole person in the room without a PhD in […]

Pioneering colleges forge ahead in peer influenced choice support for South of Scotland school pupils.

Our new ‘Data Request Form’ is a short and easy-to-use form which will ask you to tell us about your request, for example, how you intend to use the data provided.

Continuing the theme of international collaboration to share learning, Ken Rutherford talks about the work he’s led with SFC colleagues to support reform in the Republic of Ireland’s further education and training sector.

Interns Maya Zealey and Manuela Vergel joined SFC in our policy team this summer and undertook research into the role of SFC in tackling child poverty. Tackling child poverty is one of the Scottish Government’s highest priorities. The Child Poverty (Scotland) Act 2017 established in statute the government’s targets to tackling the issue of one […]

How a “bold” decision to apply for college started a journey that’s led to a pioneering trip to Antarctica for Dr Kirsty Robb, antibiotic resistance researcher at the University of Strathclyde.