'Universities are communities of people and those within Scotland’s universities play a critical role in shaping our regions, our nation and our international reach and impact.'

Devolution dividend: staff matter too. A huge contrast to DfE/Jacqui Smith approach in Tuesday's testimony. 3/3

What does ‘Speaking English to A Level standard’ mean here?

To obtain Settled Status, legal migrants must wait ten years and ‘There will be minimum standards, including having a clean criminal record, speaking English to A Level standard, made "sustained" national insurance contributions, and have no debt in the country.’

Tee hee. I read a paragraph of my thesis book a few weeks ago. It was like hearing a bag of spanners falling down a flight of stairs. But thank you!

I’m hoping I might be half decent by the time I’m 70… And who uses the word ‘facility’ in casual advice…