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Swimmer Duncan Scott describes his experience of training throughout the pandemic and getting to the Olympics.

Karen introduces SFC’s new blog series about diversity.

SFC Chief Executive, Karen Watt, pays tribute to the early response by Scotland’s colleges and universities to the pandemic.

SFC-funded resources will support conversations about race, racism and whiteness.

SFC's Lynn Killick on how we can shape society through our approach to information.

How Dundee & Angus College have worked with local businesses to reduce emissions.

Reach is an SFC-funded widening access project for eligible secondary state school students interested in becoming a doctor, lawyer, dentist or vet. Here, Reach alumni write and talk about their experiences.

Dr Tim Storer from the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance shares a novel and innovative approach to making the often dreaded PhD viva examination less intimidating for students.

SFC’s Keith McDonald on the plan for Scottish universities to apply lessons from MIT’s innovation approach, following a recent visit to see ‘how the other half innovate’.

Angus Wark shares what it’s like working as a librarian at the National Library of Scotland.

Edinburgh College's Sue Clyne discusses the anti-racism work undertaken at the college which led to it winning the Inclusive College Award at this year’s CDN College Awards.

Are estranged students visible at your institution? Is there support for them? Do they know about it and do they access it?

Dr Andrew McDiarmid shows how dreams can come true as he celebrates his ten year journey from online access course to history PhD at the University. This blog originally appeared on the One Dundee blog: blog.dundee.ac.uk/one-Dundee.

National Ambition for Care-Experienced Students.

On International Mother Language Day, Gordon Wells reflects on the value of multilingualism.

Paul Fagan describes how West College Scotland, the University of the Highlands and Islands and Forth Valley College have developed their Meta-skills (to help SMEs develop theirs).

Rebecca Petford from EAUC Scotland attended last year’s Climate Change Conference and reflects here on her thoughts and experiences on its impact on Scotland's tertiary education sector.

In Scotland we use about 200 million disposable coffee cups every year, but that’s ok we can just recycle them can’t we? Actually no! Find out why reusable coffee cups are flying off the shelves and into SFC.

This weekend for Earth Hour Siôn Pickering writes about the need for Universities to cut back on emissions through reduction in business travel.