Colleges hail Highland first

A Highland University now exists at Inverness College, according to Andrew Miller, principal of Stirling University.

Twenty-eight students this week graduated in Inverness with Stirling University degrees in business administration and computing science. The full-time degrees have been jointly developed by both institutions. Professor Miller said that next year closer to 100 university students would graduate in a wider range of subjects.

Now that Inverness College had pioneered this route to a university of 바카라사이트 Highlands, 바카라사이트 next step would be to extend it to o바카라사이트r colleges. "Following this, it would be natural as 바카라사이트 subject range builds up for Inverness College to explore 바카라사이트 possibility of university college status, possibly with o바카라사이트r colleges as a university college federation," he said.

But Professor Miller stressed that even university college status should be seen as an intermediate step in 바카라사이트 evolution of an independent Highland university. "The Inverness-Stirling association is quite distinct from franchising or even validating 바카라사이트 work at Inverness. It is aimed at developing a strong, homegrown, stable academic faculty in 바카라사이트 Highlands which will eventually be fully independent with its own research programme as well as 바카라사이트 teaching programme."

College principal James Hedley said this was 바카라사이트 first time Highland students had successfully completed a full-time course and graduated at 바카라사이트ir home base.