Scottish Funding Council

From Review to Action: Cocreating the Future of the National Schools Programme - Scottish Funding Council Anthea Coleman-Chan and Mary Macgowan take a look at the progress made on the recommendations from the review of the National Schools Programme.

In our latest blog, SFC's Anthea Coleman-Chan and Mary Macgowan take a look at the progress made on the recommendations from the review of the National Schools Programme.

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Scotland’s most promising student athletes join national sport scholarship programme - Scottish Funding Council The Winning Students 100 has announced a record-breaking year for applications.

Winning Students 100, Scotland’s national sport scholarship programme, has announced its 2025-26 cohort, marking a record-breaking year for applications and reaffirming its status as a world-leading dual-career programme.

@stir.ac.uk

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First day on net zero campus for Fife College students - Scottish Funding Council New campus is a milestone for the college sector and Scotland’s net zero future

We’re proud to have supported and been part of developing the new net-zero campus at Fife College. Great to see its doors open to students today – a big day for the College, the region and a greener Scotland! tinyurl.com/38kuyra8

Milestone for infrastructure planning - Scottish Funding Council Scotland’s first national plan for strategic investment in college campuses recently moved into its next phase, SFC’s Cliff Barraclough explains more.

The next phase of the national College Infrastructure Investment Plan was marked last week by an event in Stirling.

Our latest blog reflects back on the event and looks forward to the next steps tinyurl.com/3axxz889

Has the text, "In the college sector a record proportion of one in ten entrants to full time FE were care experienced in 2023-24." Followed by, "For the last two successive years in the National Student Survey, overall satisfaction of the university experience is higher amongst care experienced students compared to non care experienced students."

This #CareExperiencedWeek we're celebrating our care experienced learners across Scotland's colleges and universities.

Report shows increase in overall college student satisfaction - Scottish Funding Council Report shows increase in overall college student satisfaction

Today we have published a new report that shows an increase in overall college student satisfaction for the class of 2024-25.

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Detailing success in research and innovation - Scottish Funding Council Morag Campbell, Assistant Director of Research and Innovation at SFC, introduces new insights into Scottish university research.

We’ve published a new report today looking at details of universities’ use of SFC’s main research grants. The accompanying blog provides an expert introduction to the report and suggests what we can learn from it tinyurl.com/z4yc3v38

Looking forward to the awards already - and another year of fantastic, inspiring entries!

Converge announces 2025 award winners with £400K+ in prizes, record @scotfundcouncil.bsky.social funding of £1.26m plus a new Scottish Enterprise partnership to boost university-led innovation.

Discover this year's winners and the full story here:

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#ConvergeAwards

Tackling the climate emergency - Scottish Funding Council In our second Scotland’s Climate Week blog, SFC’s Elspeth Nicholson describes this week’s event to illustrate the support of Scottish university research for energy transition and our response to the ...

This #ScotClimateWeek SFC hosted an event alongside Scotland Beyond Net Zero featuring a range of stakeholders in Scotland to discuss & showcase their work to help fight the climate crisis.

@be-stbuild.bsky.social | @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social | @uofglasgow.bsky.social
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Spotlight: Tackling the climate emergency - Scottish Funding Council The Scottish Government’s ambitious target to reduce carbon emissions to net zero by 2045 will shape the development of the future Scottish economy, change the way businesses and institutions think an...

Scottish universities carry out amazing research that plays a vital part in both the national and global response to the climate emergency. For #ScotClimateWeek check out our special Research Searchlight feature tinyurl.com/kv2ebbp8

Researchers at work. Photo courtesy of the University of Glasgow

We’re delighted to be the latest signatories to the Concordat for the Environmental Sustainability of Research and Innovation Practice. In #ScotClimateWeek this marks our commitment to eliminating environmental impacts and moving to sustainable practices tinyurl.com/5n88vwk4

The National Schools Programme is taking submissions from those with expertise in widening access research & evaluation to join a taskforce to co-develop a monitoring and evaluation framework.

For more information: www.sfc.ac.uk/student-inte...

Apply here: forms.office.com/Pages/Design...

Students working on climate change activities

For #ScotClimateWeek we’ve a special guest blog today by Alice Smith from @theeauc.bsky.social. Alice looks at the extent of support available to Scotland’s colleges and universities to progress towards sustainability goals tinyurl.com/z4prk9t6

The Scottish Climate Intelligence Service The Data Lab supported ECCI to develop innovative tools to facilitate data-driven decisions and positive climate action by local governments.

As #NationalInnovationWeek wraps up, we’re spotlighting the energy sector's role in Scotland’s net zero journey. We supported the Scottish Climate Intelligence Service, helping 32 councils take data-driven climate action. 🌍

More: thedatalab.com/case-studies...

Financial sustainability reports launched - Scottish Funding Council The Scottish Funding Council has today published two reports that provide an aggregate picture of the financial health of Scotland’s colleges and universities .

Today we have published two reports that provide an aggregate picture of the financial health of Scotland’s colleges and universities.

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This week is #NationalInnovationWeek . Today we want to highlight the work of @dhi-scotland.com

They led multi-sector collaboration testing Colon Capsule Endoscopy for early bowel cancer diagnosis for NHS Scotland. ​

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We are excited to announce that sparqs is currently recruiting for a Deputy Director to join our staff team.

Please share the details with anyone who may be interested in this exciting new post!

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This week is #NationalInnovationWeek .

Today we want to highlight the work of @thedatalab.bsky.social and their work with Canon Medical to explore how smart meter data can be used to infer many health and wellbeing issues.

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We’re celebrating #NationalInnovationWeek by spotlighting the SMDH – a £54M UK-wide programme helping SME manufacturers innovate with data. In Scotland, The Data Lab led the data science strand, delivering:

⚡ 28% energy savings
🌍 30% CO₂ reduction
⚙️ 40+ new tools

🔍: thedatalab.com/case-studies...

This week is #NationalInnovationWeek . We’re celebrating Scotland’s proud legacy of innovation & global leadership in pioneering the transformative technologies & industries of the future.

Today we're celebrating BE-ST and their programme Next Gen

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It’s #SCQFWeek25 & we’re proud to support this year’s theme: #AllLearningCounts Whether you're learning at school, college, uni, on the job, through volunteering, or in life - SCQF helps understand the value of learning & plan your next steps.

Learn more at scqf.org.uk

Really important toolkit from @coldevnet.bsky.social for Scotland's institutions👇

Exploring the evolution of software engineering - Scottish Funding Council A recent conference stimulated interesting insights into a future for software engineering shaped by AI. Brian Davison from Edinburgh Napier University explores the key themes.

A recent conference stimulated interesting insights into a future for software engineering shaped by AI. In our latest blog, Brian Davison from @edinburghnapier.bsky.social explores the key themes.

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It’s great to see this announcement and to have no fewer than 11 Scottish universities represented across the 34 Units of Assessment.

An insider’s guide to the SEAP Thematic Report - Scottish Funding Council Our latest blog provides insights into SFC’s recently-published thematic report on institutional Self-Evaluation and Action Plans.

Check out our latest blog for an insider’s guide to our first thematic report on college and university self-evaluation and action plans tinyurl.com/5n79ash9

Two decades of impact backed by renewed SFC funding | Interface Online As it celebrates 20 years of driving business–academic innovation, Interface has secured a new three-year funding agreement, to July 2028, from the Scottish Funding Council.

🎉This month marks 20 years of Interface. As we celebrate we've secured a double funding commitment from the @scotfundcouncil.bsky.social. This 3 year funding agreement enables us to continue connecting businesses with universities & colleges across the country
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YouTube video by ScotFund Council Celebrating 20 years of Interface

We're celebrating 20 years of @interfaceonline.bsky.social !

SFC has announced a 3-year funding agreement to enable Interface to continue connecting businesses to the expertise of Scottish universities and colleges.

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Reflections on the first year of Scotland’s Tertiary Quality Enhancement Framework - Scottish Funding Council We celebrate the first anniversary of the new approach to quality assurance and enhancement by taking a look at what’s been achieved so far.

Our latest blog celebrates the first anniversary of the new approach to quality assurance and enhancement in Scotland and takes a look at what’s been achieved so far tinyurl.com/3hxewcdy

Good luck to everyone receiving their results today.

Our chair, Cara Aitchison wants to say a huge thank you to the staff who work in Scotland's colleges and universities and to all those who have supported and prepared learners in achieving their goals.