Recommendation 45

Richard Lochhead MSP, Minister for Further Education, Higher Education and Science, Scottish Government, recommended that: We now have to look at whether [Scotland’s universities] are sustainable going forward, and whether we are overdependent on international 102 Scottish Parliament, The impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) on university funding in Scotland (23 July 2020), p 8 (Figure 4) 103 Scottish Funding Council, The Financial Sustainability of Colleges and Universities in Scotland (11 February 2020), p 20 104 Q101 105 Q54 106 Q4 107 Q5 108 Q4 109 Q247 22 Universities and Scotland students. I do not think that means being less attractive to international students or having fewer international students coming to Scotland, but I think there is a challenge in terms of the overall financial model.110