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Changing the Subject
Funding Higher Education
in Scotland
James Moir
INTRODUCTION: THE FUNDING CONTEXT
The publication of the Browne Report in October 2010 (http://hereview.independent.gov.uk/here
view/report/) on higher education funding in England in the United Kingdom led to much debate
and political activism. Its broad acceptance by the UK Conservative/Liberal Democrat Coalition
Government, coupled with a period of substantial spending cuts in terms of block teaching grants,
has effectively ended state support for higher education, except for some limited funding for sci-
ence, technology engineering, and mathematical (STEM) subjects. Ho ...