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Student support and fees part 4: Benefits and student loan repayment
Reading time: 2 minutes
This four-part blog series is intended to help MSPs and their staff with queries they receive on student support eligibility and entitlements. It covers support…
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Student support and fees part 3: Support for Higher Education students
Reading time: 5 minutes
This four-part blog series is intended to help MSPs and their staff with queries they receive on student support eligibility and entitlements. It covers support…
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Student support and fees part 2: Support for Further Education students
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This four-part blog series is intended to help MSPs and their staff with queries they receive on student support eligibility and entitlements. It covers support…
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Student support and fees part 1: Eligibility and applying for funding
Reading time: 4 minutes
This four-part blog series is intended to help MSPs and their staff with queries they receive on student support eligibility and entitlements. It covers support…
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Guest blog: The impact of financial challenges facing Scotland’s universities
Reading time: 5 minutes
This guest blog from Dr Dely Lazarte Elliot and Professor Sajjad Hussain of the University of Glasgow looks at their research carried out as part…
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Accreditation and regulation of qualifications
Reading time: 6 minutes
A blog that explains the accreditation function in Scotland and briefly provides a comparison to England and Wales.
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The Final Countdown to election 2026: Programme for Government 2025-26 – Building the Best Future for Scotland
Reading time: 26 minutes
This extended, long-read blogpost provides a summary of the Scottish Government’s Programme for Government 2025-26 and highlights areas that are likely to be of particular…
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UKRI Policy Internships at the Scottish Parliament – what are they all about?
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Academic research can have a crucial role in the formation and scrutiny of policy. One of the ways in which PhD students can engage with…
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National Care Service Update: September 2024 – January 2025
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The story of the National Care Service Bill so far, and news of a (possibly) surprising ending. This blog will consider what has happened over…
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Further Education (FE) and Higher Education (HE) Budget 2025-26
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A look at the 2025-26 Budget allocations for Scotland’s colleges and universities.
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Progress on the plan to reduce child poverty
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This blog looks at the Scottish Government’s progress report on it’s plan to reduce child poverty through action across a wide range of different policy…
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Climate change and Scottish Parliament committees: Education, Children and Young People Committee – education estate, post-school education, research and engagement.
Reading time: 6 minutes
This blog illustrates the links between the remit of the Education, Children and Young People Committee and climate change (focusing on education estate, post-school education,…
