As international student recruitment slows, institutions face the challenge of managing debt and costly expansion projects.

While Scotland’s research landscape is world class, a recent European Patent Office report found that 45% of all UK university derived European patent applications came from just four UK ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. The leader of Scotland’s representative body for universities has warned that lack of investment over the past 15 years has created a ...

The largest number of overseas students in Scotland is from China. It fell from 19,000 in 2022/23 to 17,565 last year. Students from India fell from 12,235 to 9,950 and Nigerian students dropped from ...

A SCOTTISH university boss has raised the prospect of the re-introduction of tuition fees amid financial turmoil in higher education. Professor Peter Mathieson, vice chancellor and principal at ...

Northern Scotland has one of the highest rates of Huntington's disease in the world, according to a new study. Huntington's ...

The neurodegenerative disease slowly damages the brain, taking away the ability to walk, talk, eat, drink, make decisions and ...

Scotland’s universities have warned they are “dangerously reliant” on income from foreign students to survive after the total fell by more than 10,000 last year. Official figures disclosed ...

Scotland’s universities are in a crisis of Holyrood’s own making. The Scottish Funding Council is currently discussing bailout terms for the University of Dundee, while other universities, including ...

Glasgow is a popular destination for Chinese overseas students, with more than 6,000 studying on its campus The number of overseas students at Scottish universities dropped by more than 10,000 ...

A former principal of Dundee University is being brought back to lead a new Scottish Government taskforce to help save the crisis-hit institution, it has been announced. Sir Alan Langlands will ...