University contests new HMO fees scale
Fife Council’s fee structure has not been updated since 2006 and the council claims that, increasingly, fees have lagg...
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Medieval prayer book restoration and the use of QR technology
An art historian’s detective work to restore a medieval prayer book has its foot in both old and new technologies with...
Councillor calls for higher standard of hockey pitch for Madras College
St Andrews councillor, Brian Thomson, has suggested that the potential for providing a 2G synthetic sand-dressed pitch a...
St Andrews academic released on bail
Edinburgh Sheriff Court has released Catalan separatist, Clara Ponsatí, on bail and allowed her to keep her passport, according to her lawyer, Aamer Anwar.
Ponsatí, a professor in the University's School Finance and Ecomomics and a former education minister in the Catalan regional government,...
Dundee Principal suspended ‘over rent row’
The University of Dundee’s Principal has been suspended, reportedly over alleged non-payment of rent at the instituti...
University submits new plans for Albany Park
The University of St Andrews has submitted a fresh planning application to provide 960 student beds at Albany Park and ease the pressure on the town’s housing stock.
The new proposal would see 200 more beds than had been proposed in an earlier planning application which was refused by Fife Cou...
Serious failings in medical training at Victoria Hospital
In a damning report by the NHS Education for Scotland (NES) Deanery, which is responsible for managing medical training ...
St Andrews named in money laundering report
St Andrews University, along with University College London, have been identified as examples of prestigious universitie...
First Minister opens Scottish Oceans Institute
The new £16.5m SOI building incorporates a state-of-the-art aquarium as well as researching and teaching facilities. Th...
UK ‘University of the Year’ but St Andrews slips 33 places in World University Rankings
Again in third place behind Cambridge and Oxford in the Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide 2020 to UK universities...
Publish and be poor!
Writing in this week's Times Higher Education (August 29th) Kathryn Rudy, a senior academic at St Andrews University, co...