Mentions:
1: Kerr, Liam (Con - North East Scotland) the desired levels, properly funding the universities or ensuring that young people can take the direction - Speech Link
2: Kerr, Stephen (Con - Central Scotland) There have been references to college funding during the debate. - Speech Link
3: McCall, Roz (Con - Mid Scotland and Fife) to university at all levels, including among the most deprived students. - Speech Link
4: Dey, Graeme (SNP - Angus South) Within the increase in students progressing from college through articulation over the same period, almost - Speech Link
Correspondence Dec. 22 2023
Committee: Public Audit CommitteeFound: Scotland's colleges 2023: Written submission from Colleges Scotland, December 2023 Correspondence to
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1: None Colleges are all about improving equality and opportunities for people across Scotland. - Speech Link
2: None in order to find solutions and a sustainable way forward. - Speech Link
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1: Robison, Shona (SNP - Dundee City East) the UK Government to increase the capital funding that is available to Scotland.This is a budget that - Speech Link
2: Smith, Liz (Con - Mid Scotland and Fife) virtually all the people who are most likely to be able to deliver sustainable growth actually agree - Speech Link
3: Gosal, Pam (Con - West Scotland) to both levels of government. - Speech Link
4: Kerr, Liam (Con - North East Scotland) Given that the number of college students has fallen by more than 140,000 since the Scottish National - Speech Link
5: Swinney, John (SNP - Perthshire North) The Government’s budget priorities of equality, opportunity and community deserve our support. - Speech Link
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1: Gibson, Kenneth (SNP - Cunninghame North) How sustainable do you think that is? - Speech Link
2: None It is not just about university places, but college places, because funding for colleges has also been - Speech Link
3: None The 5 per cent cut means that campuses will be closed, fewer students will go to college and there will - Speech Link
4: None Skilled workforces come from college students. They are the people who will help businesses to run. - Speech Link
5: None Our students deserve a good education and a great experience at college. - Speech Link
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1: David Davis (Con - Haltemprice and Howden) However, due to a lack of funding, staffing levels and subsequent long waiting lists, we are unable to - Speech Link
2: Olivia Blake (Lab - Sheffield, Hallam) families with the dignity and respect that all people deserve. - Speech Link
3: Tom Randall (Con - Gedling) of 11%, but the lower funding levels increase pressure on mainstream settings to meet the needs of children - Speech Link
4: Peter Aldous (Con - Waveney) For colleges, disadvantaged funding should be reformed to include a specific block to support students - Speech Link
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1: Mark Garnier (Con - Wyre Forest) What progress her Department has made on ensuring equality of school funding through the national funding - Speech Link
2: Gillian Keegan (Con - Chichester) Nationally, high needs funding is set to increase by 60% between 2019-20 and 2024-25. - Speech Link
3: David Johnston (Con - Wantage) There has been a 30% increase in the per-head funding to schools in Devon for their special educational - Speech Link
4: Gillian Keegan (Con - Chichester) All students deserve to learn without fear or harassment.Disturbingly, I have also seen evidence of students - Speech Link
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1: Robin Walker (CON - Worcester) funding and an increase in the earnings threshold for the first time since 2018. - Speech Link
2: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) We already know that black students, students with disabilities and students from areas with high levels - Speech Link
3: Robert Halfon (CON - Harlow) Friend’s college has had a significant amount of capital funding and core funding, so I think he will - Speech Link
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1: Lochhead, Richard (SNP - Moray) to one that is based on sustainable resources. - Speech Link
2: Lochhead, Richard (SNP - Moray) Liam Kerr raises a number of important issues that deserve consideration. - Speech Link
3: Duncan-Glancy, Pam (Lab - Glasgow) That speaks to some of the problems that members have highlighted today with regard to equality in STEM.We - Speech Link
4: Lochhead, Richard (SNP - Moray) That is all down to the increase in computing processing power and the internet, and AI is now taking - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Gibson, Kenneth (SNP - Cunninghame North) Equality—Tackling poverty and protecting people from harmOpportunity—Building a fair, sustainable and - Speech Link
2: Smith, Liz (Con - Mid Scotland and Fife) its promise that it would return the size of the public sector to pre-pandemic levels. - Speech Link
3: Smith, Liz (Con - Mid Scotland and Fife) pre-pandemic levels. - Speech Link
4: Cole-Hamilton, Alex (LD - Edinburgh Western) pre-pandemic levels. - Speech Link
5: Duncan-Glancy, Pam (Lab - Glasgow) They deserve better than a Government that fails to prioritise their future.Year on year, budget movements - Speech Link
6: Fraser, Murdo (Con - Mid Scotland and Fife) The institute says the same in relation to council funding: a purported 6.2 per cent real-terms increase - Speech Link