Scottish Universities strike amid pensions row
Higher Education
Jeremy Corbyn expresses solidarity with university workers as strikes begin
JEREMY CORBYN has sent “solidarity and thanks” to university workers as staff begin a month of walkouts in the latest stage of a bitter dispute over pensions.
Scottish graduates outperform rest of UK
STATISTICS published on Thursday 29 June show graduates from Scotland’s 19 higher education institutions have better prospects within six months of graduation than their peers in the rest of the UK.
Scots students ‘finding it harder to secure place at Scottish university’
It is increasingly difficult for Scots to get a place at university in Scotland, a new report detailing "significant challenges" facing the higher education sector has found.
Problems at our schools go beyond Curriculum for Excellence objections
I THOUGHT I would hate CfE, but I am still enjoying teaching.
University lecturers set for 48-hour strike over pay row
LECTURERS at UK universities will launch a 48-hour strike today after talks failed to resolve a pay row.
Row over Fife College move ‘conflict of interest’
A TAXPAYER-backed regeneration body lobbied for a college to build a new campus in a deal which could have netted its chairman a fortune.