Kirk Ramsay

College cuts and challenge of maintaining standards
Tuesday 27 November 2012

Further education colleges rarely feature high on the political agenda.

Russell backs call for probe into other ministers’ agency
Wednesday 21 November 2012

Controversial minister Michael Russell is today at the centre of a new row, this time involving an agency overseen by fellow SNP ministers.

Was Russell's reaction part of a wider bid to neuter opposition?
Monday 19 November 2012

As a member of the board of management of a Glasgow college I watched the further education service develop into a vital access route to learning for adults and young people, many of them from the most frustrated and deprived parts of our cities ("Russell under fire for 'over-reaction' in college chief row", The Herald, November 16, and Letters, November 16-17).

Labour demands inquiry into college funding fiasco
Monday 19 November 2012

LABOUR has called on Holyrood's Presiding Officer to launch an urgent inquiry into whether Alex Salmond and Education Secretary Michael Russell deliberately misled MSPs over college funding.

There's no conspiracy - it's just a cock-up by a knackered FM
Sunday 18 November 2012

'FACTS are chiels that winna ding" is one of Alex Salmond's favourite Burns quotes, so it was with particular relish that Labour's education spokesman, Hugh Henry, flung the words in the FM's face on Thursday when it became clear that Salmond had got his facts wrong on college funding.