'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

Weird indeed. Sometimes they even say things like: ‘In some markets, promoting our critical management approach could be damaging to our recruitment'.

My own object to the term 'provider' is that over the years I feel that I've gone from being an educator to a 'service provider'. I now expect that one day I will be replaced by a vending machine.