The Herald newspaper carried an exclusive today (9 October) to announce that Dame Professor Sally Mapstone, Principal of the ...

The admissions process for getting to university can be a struggle for some people to comprehend. We wanted to make it clearer. This guide has been developed after several years of discussions about ...

The Scottish Funding Council has today (Thursday, 4 April) published its funding allocations for universities for academic year 2025/26. This follows the Scottish Government’s budget settlement for ...

The Scottish Government and Universities Scotland have today (Thursday 18 December) announced the launch of a new, joint process that will co-design a Framework for a successful and sustainable future ...

In 2019 Universities Scotland, along with partners from across the higher education sector, developed a guide to help make the admissions process to university clearer. This revised guide aims to ...

Professor Mark Parsons, Director of EPCC and Dean of Research Computing at the University of Edinburgh. EPCC, part of the University of Edinburgh, is the UK’s leading centre of Supercomputing and Data ...

All of Scotland’s 19 higher education institutions have decided not to participate in the revised Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) as proposed by the Office for Students (OfS). TEF is mandatory for ...

Following the outbreak of positive cases of coronavirus in student accommodation in parts of Scotland, university Principals met with the Minister for Further Education, Higher Education and Science, ...

Today the Commissioner for Fair Access, Professor John McKendrick has published his independent report Higher education – renewing the alliance for fair access. This is the sixth fair access report ...

Universities Scotland responds to the publication of the Scottish Funding Council’s (SFC) academic year 2024/25 indicative allocations to universities and higher education institutions. Professor Iain ...

New figures show economic benefit of international students in Scotland is £4.75 billion. Aside from London, international students in Scotland are among those to deliver the greatest financial ...

Universities Scotland has welcomed new global rankings which rates the sector in Scotland as one of the best in the world. The global rankings demonstrate Scotland’s strength in research with many ...