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Businesses boost expanded enterprise programme

Young Enterprise Scotland
Geoff Leask with Rebecca Mason, Fraser Morrison, Hope Wandless, and Kirsten McNaughton A pioneering enterprise learning course backed by the Scottish Government launches today with a new line-up of private sector partners. Read More

Financial pressures

Five Scottish universities on Covid ‘at risk’ list

Heriot Watt University
On the list: Heriot-Watt at Edinburgh Five universities in Scotland – three in Edinburgh – are listed as among the most financially at risk as a result of the impactRead More

College boost

Universities see record applications in lockdown

Edinburgh University Medical School
Universities feared a slump in applications (pic: Terry Murden) Applications to university have risen, defying expectations of a fall, with a record 40.5% of all 18-year-olds in the UK applyingRead More

Support for vital work

University research jobs protected by funding deal

Edinburgh University Medical School
Universities face difficult financial decisions (pic: Terry Murden) Universities will benefit from £280 million to protect thousands of jobs and support research into the coronavirus and other important work inRead More

Revolt at AGM

Tesco shareholders reject CEO’s £6.4m pay deal

Tesco
Tesco enjoyed a solid first quarter (pic: Terry Murden) More than two-thirds of Tesco shareholders voted down the grocery giant’s pay report at today’s annual meeting. Among those eligible to voteRead More

Sports first

SFA and Napier team up for football coaching degree

Shelley Kerr
Shelley Kerr: it will be incredibly valuable (pic: SNS Group) Those looking for a career in the coaching side of football can now train for a degree. In a firstRead More

AAI scheme

Online jobs support for ethnics hit by Covid

BAME AAI
Help on hand for BAME individuals A six-week course is launched today providing employment and financial help to minority ethnic people adversely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Edinburgh-based social enterprise AAI EmployAbility (AAI), backedRead More

Tuesday update

DB Live: Fishing deal hopes; Oddbins rescue; Ted Baker; HALO

Tesco
10.30pm: US close US stocks closed higher on Tuesday as investors remained optimistic about the reopening of the US economy despite a wave of civil unrest spreading across the country.Read More

Chinese tap may be turned off

All universities except Oxbridge ‘could go bust’

students
Overseas students are a vital source of income All universities apart from Oxford and Cambridge could go bust amid fears they could lose up to 75% of overseas students, accordingRead More

Fall in wellbeing

Isolation sees remote working lose its appeal

remote working
More workers are operating remotely, but some feel cut off (pic: Terry Murden) The prospect of more employees opting to work from home has taken a knock after a newRead More