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Scotland's universities are of and for the people

It is a truism that post-industrial nations like ours live by their wits but that doesn't make it any less true.

Whatever Scotland's constitutional destiny, the practical reality is that the education of its people will largely determine the quality of their lives. There really is no alternative to the hard graft of learning, now that heavy industry is long gone and the false gods of Scottish banking, like Fred Goodwin, have been torn down and trampled into the dust.