Current Petitions

Our fourth current petition is PE1395, by Jan Culík, on targeted funding for lesser-taught languages and cultures at Scottish universities. Members have a note from the clerk and the submissions. As members may recall, we heard a very good presentation from Jan Culík and his colleagues from the University of Glasgow last year, and we have considered the petition on a number of occasions since.One issue that it might be useful to drill down into further would be to ask the Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council how it gathers information on unmet demand for courses that are not currently being offered. There has been some coming and going on the issue, but the petition deals with what is an important, although not very easy, subject. I think that we have done as much as we can, but there is probably one little element that we have not quite covered. Are members agreed?Members indicated agreement.

We will write to the Scottish funding council to ask how it gathers information on unmet demand for courses that are not being offered.