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Old College at the University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh University staff threaten strike action amid job loss fears
Union says institution has refused to rule out compulsory redundancies as it plans to slash £140m from its budget

The FTSE 100 plunged at the tail end of last week and fell well below 8,000 in Monday morning trading. Image by PA Graphics

FTSE 100 plunges as tariff turmoil enters third day but when will selloff end?

Sir Jackie Stewart and his wife Helen following the funeral of Justin Wilson at St James the Great Church in Northamptonshire in 2015

'I leave in tears': Sir Jackie Stewart on his wife's dementia battle

Don't Miss

Team Scotland celebrate their win in the 2025 World Men's Curling Championship at the Events Centre on April 6, 2025 in Moose Jaw, Canada. (Photo by Anil Mungal/British Curling)

Scottish curlers are world champions as Mouat skips side to glory

An image issued by the Galloway Mountain Rescue Team of a wildfire in the Glen Trool area of the Galloway Forest Park. Picture: Galloway Mountain Rescue Team/PA Wire

Helicopters 'water bomb' massive wildfire as major update issued

Rangers have several injury and suspension concerns ahead of Thursday's game with Athletic Bilbao. Cr: SNS Group.

Rangers vs Bilbao team news: 7 out as Ferguson forced into changes

The 400 new homes will be built close to Culloden House, now a hotel, which served as the headquarters of Prince Charles Edward Stuart in the days leading up to the Battle of Culloden.

'High potential' for Battle of Culloden relics at site for 400 homes

California's Napa Valley is famous for its wines, but Donald Trump's tariffs could produce a Canada-style backlash against US products all over the world (Picture: David Paul Morris)

We all need to make a decision about boycotting US goods Christine Jardine

Donald Trump displays an executive order imposing tariffs on imported goods during his 'Make America Wealthy Again' trade announcement at the White House (Picture: Andrew Harnik)

How Trump’s tariffs could create Scotland’s biggest Brexit dividend Ivor Campbell

Protesters rally outside Caird Hall in Dundee in February over plans to cut hundreds of jobs at the city's university

The time has come to rethink how we fund Scotland's universities Scotsman comment

University staff hold a rally outside the Scottish Parliament to protest against threatened job cuts and demand a fair budget for higher education (Picture: Lisa Ferguson)

Scotland must act now to save its universities from an economic abyss Professor Sir Peter Mathieson

Highlights

BBC Interior Design Masters is back: meet the Scottish designer
The design competition is back for a sixth season

My Bloody Valentine in 1990

I want to see My Bloody Valentine, but gigs over 40 are a bad idea Gaby Soutar

Linda Bates tells a good tale in the Blair Street Vaults

What UK's first 'fully immersive multi-sensory walking tour' is like Janet Christie

George MacKay stars in The End, a post-apocalypse musical film also starring Tilda Swinton. With thanks to the Dakota Hotel, Glasgow.

Why Sunshine on Leith actor George MacKay sings about climate crisis

Our Love

The best new children's books for the Easter holidays

Deacon Blue at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh

Deacon Blue, Edinburgh review: 'winsomely romantic'

Antonia Bain, Samuel Bordoli and Susannah Wapshott on stage at the Scotsman Picturehouse with Scotsman classical music critic Ken Walton

WATCH: Scottish Opera creatives on award-winning animation Josefine

Beetroot soda from Elements Bearsden

The best Scottish restaurants for non-alcoholic drinks

Figures in Extinction

Edinburgh International Festival: Scotsman critics on what to see

44 Scotland Street

44 Scotland Street

Scotland Street Volume 18, Chapter 46: A miraculous draught?

44 Scotland Street

Scotland Street Volume 18, Chapter 45: Neptune’s dram

44 Scotland Street

Scotland Street Volume 18, Chapter 44: In the Thistle Chapel

Scotsman Video

Scotsman Video

The latest video from The Scotsman

Featured Videos

An actor playing a police officer in Scottish Police federation film Relentless.

Watch: Inside Scotland's police as drone video shows 'relentless' job

Coul Links, near Embo, in the Scottish Highlands, which has been earmarked for a golf course development that has promised to bring money to the area, but has caused concern for conservationists

The 'special' habitat in spotlight as decision on golf course looms

Rachel Marsden cycling through Holyrood Park during the Edinburgh Dawn Patrol on Tuesday

I joined Edinburgh's Dawn Patrol for a stunning cycle ride at 5.40am Alastair Dalton

Ruth Gipps

Watch: The SCO Digital Season Part Three: Ruth Gipps, Seascape

Puzzles

Quick CrosswordTo test and hone your word skills

SudokuThe ultimate logic-based numbers game

WordwheelPit yourself against the clock with our simple anagram game

Sport

Referee Nick Walsh shows a red card to Hearts' James Wilson during the match against Dundee United at Tynecastle. (Photo by Ross Parker / SNS Group)

Critchley backs Hearts to hold nerve and has say on Wilson red card

Hearts boss reacts to 1-0 defeat to Dundee United

'Greedy' Dundee United boss has words for sent off Hearts youngster

United boss has say on key incident in 1-0 win over Hearts

Glasgow Warriors' Henco Venter (C) celebrates with Matt Fagerson (L) and Stafford McDowall (R) after scoring a first half try against Leicester Tigers. (Photo by Ewan Bootman / SNS Group)

Glasgow Warriors exit due to Scottish Rugby wanting 'less foreigners'

Franco Smith wanted to keep South African back row

Scottish football's Gordian knot - why SPFL reconstruction is doomed Alan Pattullo

Alan Pattullo

Celtic anger after shock - 'I don’t like that side of it in this team'

Celtic boss has stern words for players after 1-0 defeat to St Johnstone

McBurnie breaks La Liga duck as fellow Scot misses penalty in Serie A

McBurnie only third Scot to score in La Liga in 38 years

Get The Scotsman app for mobile and tablet

The Scotsman app brings you exclusive, quality news and analysis from The Scotsman, Scotland’s National Newspaper.

Scotsman Sessions

Just a few of the artists who have performed Scotsman Sessions

The Scotsman Sessions: links to numbers 1-400

Kevin Lennon and Molly Innes

The Scotsman Sessions #430: Kevin Lennon and Molly Innes

Constant Vigier

The Scotsman Sessions #429: Constant Vigier

Jennie Lee: Tomorrow is a New Day

The Scotsman Sessions #428: Kit Laveri, George Docherty & Trish Mullin

Business

The centrepiece of the project, Spectrum House, is a 'radically designed' construction of modular sections with an industrial aesthetic, including a light-filled glass atrium.

Glasgow masterplan for ‘thriving, bustling new community’ in city’s East End

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) principal Professor Jeffrey Sharkey, left, with Mark Logan.

Former Scottish Government tsar Mark Logan takes up key role in performing arts

The Business of Golf

Golfers at St Andrews have warned the courses are 'overplayed' amid concerns over the direction taken by the charity tasked with safeguarding the home of golf. Picture: Paul Severn/Allsport/Getty

Exclusive Warning that historic courses at St Andrews are 'overplayed'

The R&A has overseen vast growth in the commercial appeal of The Open, golf's most storied championship, but there are questions over whether it is going too far. Picture: Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty

Exclusive How the R&A 'chasing The Open dollar' is bypassing historic courses

Muirfield is one of a number of well-known clubs to hike green fees signficantly in recent years. Picture: Stuart Franklin/Getty

Exclusive The prestigious golf clubs where green fees have soared up to 153%

A host of multimillion pound property sales have been recorded in the streets surrounding the famous Old Course in St Andrews. Picture: David Cannon/Getty

Exclusive How lure of home of golf at St Andrews has smashed property records

Carnoustie has hosted some of the major flashpoints in the history of The Open. Picture: Warren Little/Getty

Exclusive Private investors take control of famous Scottish golf club

The consortium of investors hope to secure a management agreement over Carnoustie links until the 22nd century. Picture: Phil Inglis/Getty

Exclusive The investors vying to control Carnoustie for the next century

St Andrews is among The Scotsman's guide to Scotland’s best 10 golf courses.

Get the Scotsman's guide to Scotland’s best golf courses

Politics

SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn could be saying goodbye to Westminster

Who is Stephen Flynn and how long has he been an MP?
Stephen Flynn, the SNP Westminster leader, has his eyes set on Holyrood

The Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has been criticised for her comments

Two Labour MPs ‘astounded’ to be denied entry to Israel

Jamie Greene MSP has quit the Tories for the Lib Dems

Jamie Greene makes ‘open plea’ for others to quit Scottish Tories

President Donald Trump holds up a chart while speaking during a “Make America Wealthy Again” trade announcement event in the Rose Garden

Exclusive Future devolution settlements 'could shrink after Trump tariffs'

Staff at Edinburgh University have shown strong support for industrial action. Picture: Scott Louden

Exclusive Scottish universities facing 'economic abyss', warns leading principal

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is still finding his feet

Five years into Starmer’s tenure, he still lacks a defining mission Alexander Brown

Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Inside Anas Sarwar's strategy to rescue Scottish election bid

Donald Trump's tariffs make Liz Truss's disastrous UK Budget look positively benign (Picture: Andrew Harnik)

Trump's tariff attack may be a moment on par with fall of Berlin Wall Scotsman comment

The i newsletter cut through the noise

Opinion

Artist's impressions showing the front and back views of the proposed statue of Dr Elsie Inglis on the Royal Mile

Readers' letters: Proposed Elsie Inglis statue is not a fitting tribute

Long-duration energy storage technology can store energy for eight hours or more, smoothing out the intermittency of wind generation (Picture: Andy Buchanan/ AFP via Getty Images)

More power to Scotland's elbow with spread of LDES tech

Dr Julie Nixon, managing associate, TLT

Scotland's life sciences sector is only going to get bigger

Sarah Jackson is a Partner, Turcan Connell

Start planning now for Labour’s changes to the Inheritance Tax regime

Heritage and Retro

Portia Tremlett, Public Programme Engagement officer for the Novium Museum, looks at the original Market Cross sculpture, a bust of King Charles I by Hubert Le Sueur, at its original home in Chichester, on loan from Tate Britain in 2019

Texts connected to King Charles I to go on display in public library

The 'battle scene' stone at Aberlemno churchyard, which some believe may depict the Battle of Dun Nechtain, fought nearby in 685 when the Picts killed King Ecgrith of Northumbria, the most powerful warrior of the day in a move which led to the creation of Scotland itself.

The Picts: A tiny Angus village, its carved stones and a sacred place

Artist's impressions showing two different views of the proposed statue of Dr Elsie Inglis on the Royal Mile

We're Dr Elsie Inglis' family and planned statue is fitting tribute Relatives of Dr Elsie Inglis

Dr Elsie Inglis, the pioneering Edinburgh midwife and surgeon, who is to be immortalised with a statue on the Royal Mile. A row has erupted over the appointment of the sculptor and his design, with 17 members of Dr Inglis' family coming out in support of his work. CC

Exclusive Family of Dr Elsie Inglis support statue despite design backlash

Corporal Thomas Hunter VC and First Minister John Swinney

John Swinney's tribute to war hero uncle awarded the Victoria Cross

Calanais Standing Stones on the Isle of Lewis is one of the great Neolithic sites in the west of Europe.

Rare chance to work at standing stones on Scottish island

An artist rendition of meat eating megalosaurs and plant eating sauropods mingling at a site on Prince Charles's Point on the Isle of Skye. Picture : Tone Blakesley/Scott Reid/University of Edinburgh/PA Wire

Watch: The 'fascinating' dinosaur discovery on the Isle of Skye

Arts and Culture

Death of a Unicorn

Film reviews: Death of a Unicorn | Four Mothers | Mr Burton

This high-energy original romcom musical reimagines the climate crisis as a story of love, hope and the ultimate break-up.

10 more Edinburgh Festival Fringe shows revealed for the Pleasance

Trilok Gurtu

SNJO & Trilok Gurtu, Edinburgh review: 'a majestic river of sound'

Our Love

The best new children's books for the Easter holidays

Installation view of the Suzanne Lacy exhibition at Cooper Gallery, Dundee

Art reviews: Suzanne Lacy | Say No! | Gareth Fisher

Val Kilmer as Madmartigan in Willow

Top Gun and Batman star, Val Kilmer, dead at 65

Colin Bramwell

Poetry round-up: Colin Bramwell | Charles Lang | Andrés Ordorica

Education

Schools need to teach pupils about basic moral values and be the antidote to toxic influencers like Andrew Tate (Picture: Loic Venance)

Shocking attacks on teachers shows need to restore school discipline

No teacher should have to face the threat of violence from pupils

Scotsman comment

Scotsman comment

A painting of King Charles I on his way to be executed on January 30, 1649 (Picture: Culture Club)

Never mind Russian Civil War, we need more Scottish history in schools Murdo Fraser

A survey by Scotland’s biggest teaching union teachers in Edinburgh were facing violence and abuse on a daily basis – sometimes from children as young as five. The Educational Institute of Scotland said the problem had increased over the past four years and many teachers had considered quitting because of it.

SNP urged to rethink mainstream education policy after violence surge

Pipe band returns to New York Tartan Day parade

Rachel Watson

Hay's Way

A 1950s diesel locomotive pulls the Jacobite carriages in place of the Jacobite due to it being unable to run because of the high risk of wildfires in Glenfinnan. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Harry Potter steam train engine turned off on first day over fire risk

Scott and Frankie Rayner with Jack and Bruce Marbrow after being rescued by the HM Coastguard

'It was an inferno' - Dramatic rescue of campers caught in wildfire

Nicola Wordie, who farms near Huntly, in Aberdeenshire

'Life went from best to worst' - Farmer's thoughts after tragic loss

Health

An elderly woman in a wheelchair is assisted by a care-worker as she lays flowers outside Windsor Castle following the death of Queen Elizabeth

Exclusive SNP facing social care 'meltdown' as £560m black hole risking services

Standing desks have become hugely popular in recent years

Electric standing desk with memory now £72.99 in Amazon Prime deal

Dirtea's mushroom coffee is a healthier way to get that caffeine hit

Dirtea Mushroom Coffee: A healthy coffee alternative with Lion’s Mane

I found myself on Skinny Tok and I feel like I'm back in early noughties diet culture again

I found myself on SkinnyTok and now I'm back in noughties diet culture Rachel Mackie

Stress can cause vision issues, expert reveals

Eye care experts reveal how stress can cause vision issues

Symptoms of the cold, flu and Covid can be similar.

New Covid variant on the rise - the symptoms you shouldn't ignore

The spring Covid booster vaccination programme is currently underway.

Warning over slump in elderly getting spring Covid boosters

Recommended

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New River Island dress is perfect for special occasions

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Simply Be's new spring range is perfect for everyone

Ryainair carry on bags have to fit within a specific size restriction

Best Ryanair cabin bag deal: stylish rucksack for £16.99

Hundreds of top UK mags are on the Readly app

12 surprising magazines you can read free with a Readly trial

The screen detaches from the keyboard, becoming a tablet

Lenovo Chromebook Deal: Save 53% on the IdeaPad Duet 3

Marks & Spencer launches new collaboration with fashion designer Olivia von Halle

M&S x Olivia von Halle: luxe nightwear collab with PJs from £45

I tried items from the new River Island spring collection - here’s what I really think

River Island spring try-on: the jeans I’ll be living in this season

Sport Opinion

Dundee's Simon Murray celebrates after scoring his 19th goal of the season in the 4-3 defeat by Rangers on Saturday. (Photo by Paul Devlin / SNS Group)

Underrated 33y/o striker should be on radar for first Scotland call up
19 goals for season for prolific uncapped hitman
Alan Pattullo

Scottie Scheffler poses with the trophy after winning the 2024 Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club

Who will be the major contenders in 2025 as Masters looms on horizon?

Darcy Graham gave Scotland hope with a first-half try in Paris but France overpowered the visitors in the second half.

Fraser Brown: If you replace Townsend, you must appoint someone better

James McFadden celebrates after scoring against France at the Parc De Princes stadium in Paris in 2007 (Picture: Franck Fife)

Scotland can beat France if they show some James McFadden-style gallus Scotsman comment

Obituaries

Celebrate your loved one with GUESTPIX – The thoughtful way to cherish memories

Celebrate your loved one with a thoughtful way to cherish memories

The estimable Wendy Jones as captured by talented artist Verna Bond

Scotsman Obituaries: Wendy Jones, Scotsman Publicity department legend

Rugby Union

Glasgow Warriors' Adam Hastings celebrates after scoring a second half try against Leicester Tigers. (Photo by Ross MacDonald / SNS Group)

Warriors returnee lifts lid on transformation under Franco Smith

Glasgow Warriors celebrate Henco Venter's second half try in the win over Leicester Tigers.

Glasgow Warriors reaction: Matthews' mouthguard, 'ridiculous' sin-bin

Glasgow Warriors' Adam Hastings' celebrates after scoring a second-half try against Leicester Tigers.

Classy Warriors make history in Champions Cup and set up tasty QF

Edinburgh's Freddy Douglas is congratulated by Wes Goosen after winning an important turnover in the EPCR Challenge Cup round of 16 win over Emirates Lions.

Edinburgh teenager's cameo praised as South African QF challenge looms

Edinburgh Rugby celebrate their win.

QF opponent revealed as Edinburgh urged to seize 'massive opportunity'

Edinburgh's Ali Price celebrates with Ross McCann as he scores the fourth try against Lions.

Rapid Edinburgh Rugby book place in Challenge Cup quarter-finals

Glasgow Warriors have picked a strong team to face Leicester Tigers at Scotstoun.

Glasgow Warriors choose to respect Champions Cup with team selection

Glasgow Warriors will face Edinburgh Rugby again at Hampden.

Glasgow Warriors to face Edinburgh Rugby once again at Hampden

Edinburgh Rugby take on Lions in the last 16 of the Challenge Cup.

How to watch Edinburgh Rugby v Lions on TV and online

Cars

The 4K Omni rotates to monitor all your surroundings

Why the 70mai 4K Omni is the cleverest dashcam I’ve ever used

The Lexus RZ series has striking styling, and looks great from most angles

Lexus RZ300e review: All-electric hits the sweet spot for the brand

This is possibly the cheapest way to experience the thrill of a thunderous V8 on track

Wowcher deal lets you drive a 435bhp Mustang GT V8 on track for £16

The McLaren 720s can sprint to 60mph in less than three seconds

This £118,000 McLaren 720s supercar could be yours for just 19p

The Carluex Pro+ lets you download pretty much any app onto a car screen

This £193 gadget turns your car screen into a smart TV or tablet

Sean Pitkin paid just 26p for his prize draw entry - and hit the jackpot

This man quit work to help his Dad fight cancer - and won a £157k car

Must Read

35 per cent of Brits will power wash this Easter weekend

Ad Feature Over half of Brits will use the Easter weekend to tackle DIY projects

Olympic Champion Joe Fraser launches gymnastics club in Lichfield, UK

Ad Feature Olympic champion Joe Fraser launches UK gymnastics club

Abby McNicol was one of the four lucky winners who won the SPAR Frozen Fortune £10k prize

Ad Feature These four lucky shoppers scooped £10,000 from their local SPAR

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