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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.

Scotland’s colleges collaborate on new national #ChooseCollege campaign

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Learning and Teaching

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 12 May 2021

Wendy Grindle outlines how CDN have been successfully running their #ChooseCollege campaign this spring.

Future research assessment programme

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Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 19 May 2021

UK wide project launched to explore the future assessment of university research

Entrepreneurs graduate from new programme to help drive innovation

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Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 16 January 2024

Published: 1 July 2021

Today the first graduates of a ground-breaking new education programme for Scottish entrepreneurs were honoured in an online ceremony.

Going with the Flow

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Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 20 August 2021

Alison’s social enterprise company has a global mission and her ambitions have been supported through collaboration with college and university partners. She is interviewed here by @InterfaceOnline

Global experts to address Scotland’s CAN DO Innovation Summit

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Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 16 January 2024

Published: 17 November 2021

Global thought-leaders are set to join leading Scottish businesses at Scotland’s third annual CAN DO Innovation Summit early next year.

Partnerships and creativity pave way to NHS careers

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Learning and Teaching

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 16 May 2022

Rachel McFadden, a lecturer at West Lothian College, explains how her Health and Social Care students have been able to progress despite obstacles created by the pandemic.

SFC colleagues contribute to tackling the climate crisis

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Net Zero

Last Updated: 4 January 2024

Published: 30 September 2022

This Climate Week we want to share some of the things that staff at SFC have been doing in their own lives to help in fighting the climate crisis.

Mental wellbeing to be explored in 2023 NSS

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Statistics

Last Updated: 16 January 2024

Published: 28 October 2022

Change responds to concerns over the effect of mental wellbeing on student outcomes.

European Exchange to look at the impact of humans on marine life

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Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 9 January 2024

Published: 23 November 2022

PHD research, Emily Hague describes how SFC’s Saltire Emerging Researcher Scheme helped her in collaborating with researchers in Ireland and Denmark.

Out of adversity… came research connections

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Research and Innovation

Last Updated: 9 January 2024

Published: 20 March 2023

Dr Tim Storer, Director of Knowledge Exchange & Impact at the SICSA research pool and Dr Ali McIntosh, Director of SULSA, on a pandemic innovation with growing benefits for research.

Award winning Climate Action at Borders College

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Net Zero

Last Updated: 9 January 2024

Published: 9 August 2023

Following winning the Climate Action 2030 award at this year’s International Green Gown Awards, Robert Hewitt, Director of Estates and Facilities at Borders College outlines what they’ve been doing to fight climate change.

Supporting Care Experienced Learners – what next?

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Fair Access

Last Updated: 9 January 2024

Published: 21 August 2023

Who Cares? Scotland's Chloe Dobson looks at some of the specific actions that could improve higher education for care-experienced people and suggests the next steps forward for better support.

Fair access and inclusive economic growth 

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Fair Access

Last Updated: 9 January 2024

Published: 6 October 2023

Reflecting on SFC’s latest widening access report, Dr Paul Little argues that future economic success depends on harnessing the impact, innovation and expertise of Scotland’s colleges.

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