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SCOTLAND: Universities spread to Middle and Far East
# 08, August 2010
Scottish universities are breaking new ground this summer - literally - as work begins on Heriot-Watt's bespoke £35 million (US$55.7 million) campus in the Middle Eastern state of Dubai, writes Jackie Kemp for The Guardian. Glasgow Caledonian has opened a campus in London to help it to attract international postgraduates and, also this year, a nursing college in Bangladesh. Napier University has opened a biofuel research centre in Hong Kong within the last few months and an office in India last year.These bold steps come as Scottish universities attempt to get ahead of their rivals in attracting new funding streams amid fears of major cuts in public funding. Scottish universities have had a real-terms freeze to their funding this year and widely expect cuts in future. The current SNP minority government has already abolished a graduate endowment scheme and any prospect of a UK-wide graduate tax is seen as political "jam tomorrow".
Source: The Guardian
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