Rectors will find the going tough

ANY hopes that the SNP administration could keep the lid on growing concern at universities over the level of government funding have been dealt a blow by news that rectors are to join forces to launch a combined attack.

The administration had been hoping to keep dissent within a task force reviewing funding for higher education. But Mark Ballard, the former Green MSP and rector of Edinburgh University, has made clear that the most pressing issue facing universities...