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Chamber and committees

Education, Children and Young People Committee [Session 6]


Minutes: 26 November 2025

Wednesday, 26 November 2025

34th Meeting, 2025

Start time:09:00am
End time: 12:53pm
Location: TG.40-CR1 The Burns Room
Published: Wednesday, 03 December 2025
Also Present:
  • Maggie Chapman, Pam Gosal, Monica Lennon and Ben Macpherson (Minister for Higher and Further Education)

Minutes


1. Tertiary Education and Training (Funding and Governance) (Scotland) Bill:

The Committee will considered the Bill at Stage 2 (Day 1).

The following amendments were agreed to (without division): 1, 2, 25, 49, 55, 60, 64, 66, 71, 4, 72, 79, 5, 6, 7, 8

The following amendments were disagreed to (by division)—

40 (For 3, Against 7, Abstentions 0)
48 (For 3, Against 7, Abstentions 0)
52 (For 1, Against 9, Abstentions 0)
53 (For 1, Against 9, Abstentions 0)
56 (For 4, Against 6, Abstentions 0)
65 (For 4, Against 6, Abstentions 0)
67 (For 4, Against 6, Abstentions 0)
68 (For 4, Against 6, Abstentions 0)
76 (For 1, Against 9, Abstentions 0)
80 (For 3, Against 7, Abstentions 0)
81 (For 3, Against 7, Abstentions 0)
84 (For 3, Against 7, Abstentions 0)

The following amendments were moved and, no member having objected, withdrawn: 38, 50, 69 and 26

The following amendments were not moved: 39, 41, 42, 24, 43, 44, 45, 46, 3, 51, 54, 57, 58, 59, 61, (and, as a consequence, 61A, 61B, 61C, 61D, 61E), 62, 63, 70, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78, 27, 28, 82, 83, 85, 29, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, (and, as a consequence, 91A), 92 and 93

The following provisions were agreed to as amended: sections 1,2,3,4

The Committee ended consideration of the Bill for the day section 4 having been agreed to.

Maggie Chapman declared an interest as Rector of the University of Dundee.


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