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SFC in Ireland

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Skills and Lifelong Learning

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 28 April 2020

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.

What is SFC doing to tackle child poverty?

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Equality and Diversity

Last Updated: 9 January 2024

Published: 3 January 2024

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 […]

From Forth Valley, to the ends of the Earth

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Learning and Teaching

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 11 February 2019

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.

The Robertson Trust’s Journey to Success Programme

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Fair Access

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 11 February 2019

How the Robertson Trust's scholarship programme helps students from disadvantaged backgrounds into successful graduate careers.

CENSIS Vision Lab goes live

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Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 11 February 2019

If your business has a computer vision or imaging challenge, we’d love to hear from you, says Helen Sandison, Senior Engineer at CENSIS.

Spreading the word

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Skills and Lifelong Learning

Statistics

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 9 January 2019

SFC data interns to share insights at Edinburgh event.

Investing in the West End – the University of Glasgow’s new £1b campus development

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Governance

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 28 April 2020

The University of Glasgow’s new campus development and what it holds for the future of the West End.

Who Cares? Scotland and Care Day 2019

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Fair Access

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 28 April 2020

Vonnie Sandlan on Care Day 2019 and the difference it makes in the lives of care experienced people.

Ingenious and Enterprising Women

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Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 28 April 2020

How to tackle inequality in a system that isn’t going to “sort itself out”

SFC in Slovenia

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Funding

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 28 April 2020

Scotland shares its experience with our European partners.

New resources set to accelerate progress on fair access

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Learning and Teaching

Skills and Lifelong Learning

Research and Innovation

Fair Access

Last Updated: 16 January 2024

Published: 7 May 2019

Commissioner welcomes “step change” in understanding of what works in widening access.

New report charts progress towards fair access

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Fair Access

Last Updated: 16 January 2024

Published: 13 June 2019

Collective approach working but still work to do.

From an acorn…

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Funding

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 28 April 2020

Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts, University of Glasgow charts the global influence of single project funded nearly a decade ago.

Future Thinking

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Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 28 April 2020

SFC’s Dr Stuart Fancey on what research and innovation in Scotland look like post-2020.

Engendering STEM

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Fair Access

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 28 April 2020

Douglas Morrison reports on a project investigating why the gender imbalance in STEM jobs persists, and new ways of working with employers to address it.

REF 2021 consultation

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Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 8 January 2020

Codes of practice complaints and investigations process.

UMIS’s ‘Capturing Lives’

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Learning and Teaching

Last Updated: 14 February 2024

Published: 30 July 2020

University museums have been adapting to Covid-19 since March. Sarah Burry-Hayes discusses how they treated the lockdown as an opportunity to offer digital content and programming.

Nothing stops college innovation

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Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 4 December 2020

SFC’s Morven Pritchard looks at how colleges have adapted to keep their College Innovation Funds on track despite the pandemic.

Mapping Scotland’s learning pathways

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Statistics

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 15 December 2020

SFC has published a new statistical report looking at student transitions from college to university.

Putting public health into action

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Skills and Lifelong Learning

Last Updated: 11 January 2024

Published: 14 January 2021

One of almost 800 recipients of a fully funded place on one of the University of Aberdeen’s online short courses this year, school nurse Emily Rodger shares how she’s applying her studies in public health within her school community.

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