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The Scottish Funding Council (Scottish Gaelic: Comhairle Maoineachaidh na h-Alba; SFC), formally the Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council, is the non-departmental public body charged with funding Scotland's further and higher education institutions, including its 26 colleges and 19 universities.
Higher Education Funding Council for England, a public body of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in the United Kingdom; Higher Education Funding Council for Wales, an intermediary body in Wales; Scottish Funding Council, the body in Scotland that distributes funding from the Scottish Executive to the country's colleges
Scottish colleges are funded primarily by the Scottish Funding Council, with tuition fees paid by individual students or their sponsors. Not included in this list are a number of colleges which became affiliated with the UHI Millennium Institute, a grouping of further education colleges mostly located in the Highlands, in 2001.
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The Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) is a "research pool" funded by the Scottish Funding Council.A research pool is a collaboration of Scottish university departments whose broad objective is to create a coherent research community that will improve the quality of research carried out in Scotland in the pool-related discipline.
Bòrd na Gàidhlig is a non-departmental public body constituted of members of the board, whose role is "to provide leadership, direction, support and guidance" to the body, and staff who are typically full-time public sector employees and who carry out the day-to-day work of the body.
The Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) was set up in 2014, funded by the Scottish Funding Council, Scottish Enterprise, and Highlands and Islands Enterprise, with funding matched by the industry. It is hosted by the University of Stirling.
The Accounts Commission for Scotland is an executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government. [2] The Commission audits Scottish local government and associated public bodies. With the passing of the Public Finance and Accountability (Scotland) Act 2000 the Commission's staff were transferred to Audit Scotland , and it has not ...