The Scottish government has unveiled plans to protect higher education funding and to ramp up industry R&D spending in its draft 2018-19 budget.
Overall funding for the Scottish Funding Council will rise by £103 million to £1.84 billion in 2018-19, with the higher education portion of its budget rising by £11m to £1.02bn. The boost was welcomed by Universities Scotland, which said this would allow the teaching grant—a per-student funding allocation the association had campaigned to protect—to be safeguarded in real terms.
"This is a good outcome for higher education given the challenging fiscal context," said Andrea Nolan, convener of Universities Scotland.
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