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A pragmatic decision »

Michael Russell MSP

As a government we fundamentally believe in the principle of free education, and that is why we have made it clear that we will never introduce tuition fees for Scottish undergraduate students. In an ideal world, no student attending a Scottish univer...

Wed 14 Sep 2011 by Michael Russell | Read more »

ECA principal retires as merger reaches final stages »

Principal of the Edinburgh College of Art Professor Ian Howard, a strong advocate of the merger, has announced his retirement, effective 31 July 2011. The news comes as the merger between the University of Edinburgh and ECA was approved by Michael Rus...

Wed 09 Feb 2011 by Lily Panamsky | Read more »

SNP defend free education for Scots »

Michael Russell poses with environment secretary Richard Lochhead

Free education for Scottish students has been protected at the launch of a Green Paper setting out a range of options for university funding. The recent tuition fee hike south of the border has prompted the SNP to prevent what they have called fee ref...

Wed 26 Jan 2011 by Andrew Barr | Read more »

Merger proposal to be submitted to Scottish Government »

ECA

The University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) have agreed to merge. ECA’s Board of Governors met on 21 September and agreed to the deal. Six days later, the University Court met and also consented. The full merger proposal docu...

Mon 27 Sep 2010 by Megan Taylor | Read more »

Visa suspensions could affect legitimate students »

Thousands of legitimate students have been affected by UK's suspension of student visas according to the president of the Education Consultants Association of Nepal. Uttam Prasad Pan said that Nepalese students may have been directly affected by the r...

Wed 17 Feb 2010 by Marcus De Wilde | Read more »

Scottish and Indian universities aim to increase cooperation  »

More co-operation between scottish and indian unis

An agreement has been signed by Universities Scotland and the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) to promote cooperation in higher education between the two countries. This is the first international Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to be signe...

Wed 28 Oct 2009 by Ishbel Eunson | Read more »

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