I would encourage Ayrshire College to continue to liaise with SDS and raise any concerns about their contracts with them in the first instance if the College feels that its potential for growth in this area is not being fulfilled.More generally on support for the sustainability and growth of our colleges, the college Tripartite Alignment Group (comprising of Scottish Government, the SFC and Colleges Scotland) continues to work on identifying and implementing workable flexibilities to ease colleges’ financial pressures while ensuring accountability for public funds.A fresh set of priorities for the Group were agreed last year, and work is underway across those areas, namely diversification of funding into the sector, establishment of a new...