Edinburgh insists colleges will remain as charities

By Emilie Filou, Third Sector, 12 September 2007

The Scottish Government has announced that it intends to maintain the charitable status of further education colleges in Scotland and will introduce "any legislation necessary to achieve this".

The Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator recently concluded that Glasgow's John Wheatley College of further education - and, by extension, all similar colleges - did not meet its charity test. This was because the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992 gives Scottish ministers a range of powers over...

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