Senior figures in higher education described the SFC decision as “a shameful piece of administration” and “murky”.
Questions are being asked over the actions of the Scottish Funding Council (SFC), the quango in charge of funding Scotland’s universities, as new documents reveal it denied a previously approved financial lifeline to the troubled Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) earlier this year.
Senior figures in higher education described the SFC decision as “a shameful piece of administration” and “murky”.
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