Current Petitions

I am rather concerned by the response that we received from the petitioner in relation to the Scottish Higher and Further Education Funding Council’s reply to the committee. The petitioner raises what I consider to be serious concerns about the information that the Scottish funding council has provided. I recommend that the committee writes to the Scottish Government and the Scottish funding council with the petitioner’s response to the correspondence and asks them for their views on the petitioner’s comments. The petitioner says that although certain courses continue at the University of Glasgow, they can be taken up only to year 2 and cannot be carried on to a full degree. That raises concerns and it goes against what is said in the Scottish funding council’s submissions, as I understand them. I therefore seek the committee’s approval that we write to the Scottish Government and the Scottish funding council to ask for a response to the issues that the petitioner has raised.