Question reference: S6W-02590
- Asked by: Foysol Choudhury, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 30 August 2021
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Current status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 13 September 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what liaison it has with the (a) higher and (b) further education sector regarding increasing the numbers of spoken language interpreters.
Answer
The Scottish Government has had no approach from either Sector regarding increasing the numbers of spoken language interpreters.
The Scottish Funding Council (SFC) is the national, strategic body that is responsible for funding teaching and learning provision, research and other activities in Scotland's colleges and universities. It’s budget provides investment in Scotland's colleges and universities to support the development of well-educated, highly-skilled people and to enable sustainable, inclusive economic growth through enhancing skills and securing world-class research and cutting-edge innovation.
Scottish universities are autonomous institutions therefore it is for the individual universities to decide how to distribute the places it receives between faculties, what courses to offer, and how many of the total funded places will be available on each course.