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The Graduate Endowment is an integral part of the new student support arrangements introduced for Scottish domiciled students studying full-time higher education courses in Scotland from 2001-02 including bursaries for young students from low income families.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
3 October 2002
Further improvements will be introduced as a result of the recent review of Scottish Enterprise's Business Birth Rate Strategy.The most recent data on new businesses is the number of new VAT registrations in 2000.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
20 February 2002
The Glasgow Alliance will receive an extra £700,000 to develop projects in areas such as Sighthill and Barmulloch that will tackle community integration and improve local services.These projects will benefit both the established and the new asylum seeker population in Sighthill.
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to encourage employers to eliminate any discrimination in the workplace against people with mental illness. The New Deal for Disabled People will be extended nationally from July 2001 to all people claiming incapacity benefits which will offer new opportunities for peo...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
19 January 2001
Some £23 million has been earmarked for spending in Scotland.People need to learn how to use new technology effectively if they are to feel comfortable with it and reap the benefits it offers.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 January 2001
Since its first awards in July 1999 the New Opportunities Fund has made grant commitments of £15 million in Scotland, of which £9.7 million has been committed under the Out of Schools Hours Learning programme and £3.8 million for Out of School Hours Child Care.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
26 September 2000
The Scottish Executive have put in place a new electricity and energy management services contract with Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) from 1 July 2000.
If, despite the actions taken by a water authority, a domestic property fails to meet the new standard after the prescribed date, water authorities will provide consumers and property owners with advice on remedial action that they can take.