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A time for change

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Governance

Last Updated: 16 January 2024

Published: 20 October 2020

SFC publishes findings from Phase 1 of its Review of Colleges and Universities.

Pioneering simpler access to Scotland’s public data

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Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 20 November 2024

Published: 20 November 2024

Professor Roger Halliday is the Chief Executive Officer of Research Data Scotland. Here, he introduces its pioneering new Researcher Access Service.

Male? Thinking of Early Years? You should have NO fears!

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Fair Access

Last Updated: 11 January 2024

Published: 11 February 2019

Chris Palmer – Dumfries and Galloway College graduate and current student at the University of Glasgow writes about what it’s really like to be a male working in childcare.

Fighting back against cyber attacks

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Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 28 April 2020

The Scottish Funding Council’s David Beards writes about the rising tide of cybercrime and how to keep your data safe.

Graduate Apprenticeships – what an opportunity!

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Skills and Lifelong Learning

Last Updated: 9 January 2024

Published: 20 December 2022

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.

Creating an international voice for Scotland

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Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 11 February 2019

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

University partnership generates renewable energy expansion in Argyll

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Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 16 January 2024

Published: 7 January 2019

Interface partnership helps business growth in rural Scotland.

Winning grapes and other health innovations

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Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 28 April 2020

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?

Going Higher and Further for Student Carers

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Learning and Teaching

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 28 April 2020

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.

Fathers in Childcare

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Learning and Teaching

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 28 April 2020

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.

Tales of the unexpected

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Research and Innovation

Fair Access

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 8 January 2020

A year in the life of SFC.

Why do we need electric vehicles?

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Skills and Lifelong Learning

Last Updated: 26 January 2024

Published: 18 September 2020

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.

Widening Access to education is crucial – especially during a global pandemic

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Fair Access

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 22 December 2020

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.

Ensuring an innovative future

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Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 4 February 2021

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.

Post pandemic, we can’t afford to ration innovation

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Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 16 July 2021

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

Scottish Student looking ahead to Beijing in 2022

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Student Interests

Last Updated: 16 January 2024

Published: 20 August 2021

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

Why I still love working in the careers team

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Skills and Lifelong Learning

Last Updated: 1 February 2024

Published: 13 November 2023

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.

Science as a team sport

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Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 24 May 2024

Published: 22 May 2024

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 […]

Learners leading learners into tech

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Skills and Lifelong Learning

Last Updated: 6 February 2025

Published: 6 February 2025

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

SFC’s new Data Request Form

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About SFC

Last Updated: 15 May 2024

Published: 15 May 2024

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.

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