Date: Tuesday, 9th March 2009 

Venue: TBC (Edinburgh)

Keynote: Michale Russell,MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Education The Scottish Government and Dr Laurence Gruer, Director of Public Health Science, NHS Health Scotland.

19th March 2010

The Lakeside Conference Centre, Aston University, Birmingham

Given the interest surrounding the financing and sustainability of summer schools beyond 2010, this summer school conference will be a more strategically focused event than in the past.   It will be of particular interest to Aimhigher leads and chairs, and senior managers in HEIs.

Find out more  about the conference agenda and  how to book a place.  

Seminar: Wednesday 24th March 2010, 10am to 1pm, Business Centre, City of Edinburgh Chambers

Keynote Speaker:

Isobel MacNaughtan, Centre for Confidence and Wellbeing

For information on how to book contact:  shaigh@learninglinkscotland.org.uk

The Scottish Funding Council have launched the Learning for All:fourth update on measure of success March 2010. 

 Find out more about Learning for All 2010

YouthLink Scotland produces Being Young in Scotland every two years.  The document offers a unique insight into the hopes, fears, attitudes and aspirations of our young people from 11-25 years of age.

It gives national and local policy makers, youth and children’s practitioners useful and up-to-date intelligence which can be translated into important policy and practice decisions over the next planning cycle.

Find out more and download the full report

Scotland’s 20 universities are to receive £1.12 billion of funding for teaching, research, and maintaining their estates for the 2010-11 academic year. Funding has also been provided to support innovation in strategic areas such as skills, employability and wider access to university education.

The investment, which comes from the Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council (SFC), represents an overall increase of £15.3 million or 1.4 per cent on 2009-10 funding.

Find out more

Scottish  universities have been fined a total of nearly £1 million for over-recruiting students during the recession.

Four of the country’s higher education institutions have been penalised by the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) as a result of the record number of students taking up places in 2009-10.

Read the full article in the Herald