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Scottish students celebrate funding 'victory' »

Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, Mike Russell, on a visit to City of Glasgow College

Scottish students are celebrating ‘a victory’ as the Scottish government unveiled a new student funding package. From 2013, students from the poorest families will receive a minimum income of £7,250 through bursaries and loans, with ...

Thu 23 Aug 2012 by Gareth Llewellyn | Read more »

Spending review good news for Scottish universities »

The Scottish Government’s spending review has been praised by the higher education sector, after committing to protect the Education Maintenance Allowance and a £7,000 minimum income provision for the poorest students. The review also...

Tue 04 Oct 2011 by Tom McCallum | Read more »

Funding body to crack down on class dodgers »

Empty lecture theatre

Students who consistently fail to attend classes could stand to lose individual funding support under a new recording system introduced by the Student Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS). The Attendance Data Record Project, which is this year being impl...

Wed 14 Sep 2011 by John Sheppard | Read more »

Edinburgh University's climate change group receives knockback »

A climate change group at Edinburgh University will have to make cutbacks after its bid for more funding was deemed "too ambitious". The group, Transition Edinburgh University, had been granted over £350,000 from the Scottish Government's Climat...

Wed 04 May 2011 by James Johnstone | Read more »

Fool me once... »

In the last month, The Journal has interviewed the leaders of all five major Scottish political parties. We begin today with Alex Salmond and Iain Gray, respectively the leaders of the SNP and Scottish Labour. One of these men, it is generally accepted...

Wed 20 Apr 2011 | Read more »

Liam Burns: Now more than ever, we need a united student movement »

Students at the recent Reclaim Your Voice rally outside the Scottish Parliament

You would be forgiven for thinking that I’d be terrified at the prospect of taking on the role of national president of NUS UK after the year my predecessor has had, but I’m really excited at the prospect. Excited because I’ve really ...

Tue 19 Apr 2011 by Liam Burns | Read more »

Labouring the point »

Last weekend, the Scottish Labour Party performed a surprise U-turn, reversing its stance on university funding and pledging not to introduce either tuition fees or a contribution for Scottish students in the next parliament. The party’s intentio...

Wed 09 Mar 2011 | Read more »

Time to pay the piper »

Edinburgh University's Old College

The clock is ticking on the future of higher education in Scotland. The democratic intellect is on borrowed time. In less than a month John Swinney, the Scottish finance secretary, must decide whether or not to restore tuition fees in Scotland. If he d...

Wed 27 Oct 2010 by Iain Macwhirter | Read more »

There's no such thing as a free education? »

Graduates

Reform Scotland believes that we need to re-examine the funding of higher education in Scotland in order to ensure a better balance, with both taxpayers and graduates contributing towards the cost of university education. We should be doing this bec...

Wed 13 Oct 2010 by Geoff Mawdsley | Read more »

The end of the experiment »

Robert Edwards

The Journal congratulates University of Edinburgh graduate Professor Robert Edwards on his winning of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Professor Edwards, who was honoured by the Nobel Foundation for his work in the development of in vitro fertilisatio...

Wed 13 Oct 2010 | Read more »

Waiting for payday »

It's that time of year again. A month after term began at most Scottish universities, and once again thousands of students are still waiting to receive their student loans. Although we report on this year's loans drama in this issue, it is not a new st...

Wed 13 Oct 2010 | Read more »

Napier to scrap popular communications course over "financial pressures" »

Napier University Craiglockhart Campus

Edinburgh Napier’s Communication, Advertising and PR undergraduate degree is to be discontinued, according to a letter sent to students this week. The letter, from Programme Leader Mark Passera, stated: “The University has decided to stop ...

Fri 23 Apr 2010 by Mairi Thomson | Read more »

Fewer Scots going into higher education »

Claire Baker 2

Shadow Education Minister Claire Baker has blamed the SNP government for a meagre rise in Scottish university students and called for a review of the sector. Higher Education Statistics Agency figures show that in 2008/09 the number of English student...

Wed 03 Feb 2010 by Tony Garner | Read more »

Recession or rejuvenation? »

In the past year, whilst industries went bust, the art world has been experiencing a boom, the reverberations of which can be felt rippling through the most oblique and surprising locations around Scotland and through ...

Wed 03 Feb 2010 by Rachael Cloughton | Read more »

Student finance: some cause for concern »

Adam Ramsay

Student finance in the UK is built on four planks: commercial credit, part time work, parental funding, and government support. The first three are beginning to crack. Commercial loans should never have been a key part of our student funding model. Pe...

Mon 27 Apr 2009 by Adam Ramsay | Read more »

University of Liverpool: It's economics or it's stupid »

The University of Liverpool is currently bogged down in controversy after it was revealed to be considering scrapping three of its academic departments. It should be remembered that, in abstract, it is by no means unusual for a university to close or r...

Mon 23 Mar 2009 | Read more »

Leading universities face research shortfall after English funding announced »

Oxford

Some of England’s top universities look set to be forced into research cutbacks next year while newer institutions will see a marked rise in available funds, after individual budgets for all universities and colleges in England were published last week...

Mon 09 Mar 2009 by Nick Eardley | Read more »

SNP breaks student loans promise »

Pounds

The SNP government in Holyrood has again failed to fulfil a major election promise to tackle student debt made in the run up to the 2007 Scottish Parliamentary elections. A consultation paper—published in December—that addresses the Scotti...

Mon 12 Jan 2009 by Ben Judge | Read more »

Scottish universities could fall behind, warns report »

UUK

English universities could become larger and better-funded than those in the rest of the UK, a report has warned. The study, released by the vice-chancellors' group Universities UK (UUK), has found that since devolution English institutions have grown...

Sat 10 Jan 2009 by Matthew MacLeod | Read more »

Scottish researchers get £4m windfall »

Grants worth a total of £3.87 million have been awarded to researchers by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) as part of a drive to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship in Scotland. At a ceremony in the Great Hall of Edinburgh Castle, educ...

Fri 03 Oct 2008 by Simon Mundy | Read more »

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