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.

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