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Many of those who did not get into Edinburgh University to study law or eight other courses will have come from the ‘ordinary, hard-working families’ which politicians often talk about (Picture: Jane Barlow)

Quotas for students from deprived backgrounds are reasonable but not at 100%

University of Stirling manager Chris Geddes is preparing to lead his team to Tannadice in the Scottish Cup fourth round. Pic: Michael Gillen

The team with 1000 friends but no fans facing Dundee United in the Scottish Cup

Skeleton study finds violence and warfare 'widespread' during Neolithic period

Giving the vote to under-18s boosts voter participation, study shows

Readers' Letters: It's time to review the funding of university places

Readers' Letters: Moorland management brings many benefits

Cap on Scottish students resulting in a 'reduction of opportunity'

Nicola Sturgeon: 'Good news' that more deprived students are going to university

Analysis: University access - great achievement, or breach of natural fairness?

Hockey coach who has Watsonians on top indoors and out

Students from less deprived background have 'door closed' to university

Edinburgh University must undo this shocking act of injustice – Scotsman comment

Readers' Letters: Hard to believe Sturgeon didn’t know of film stooshie

University has a historic choice to make about trans debate and free speech

Scotsman Obituaries: Frank Whaling, founder of Edinburgh Interfaith Association

Edinburgh author Alexander McCall Smith gets lifetime achievement award

Dinosaurs thriving before the asteroid strike, new research reveals

Remembering the devastating Cowgate blaze 20 years on

Scotsman Obituaries: David Reith, NHS administrator with a taste for adventure

Protest against Edinburgh University students' union screening World Cup matches

Music from 400-year-old volume set to be played at nation’s oldest concert hall

Glasgow University team to lead £2 million monkeypox research project

Putin ally stripped of Edinburgh University degree

Scotland’s mileposts have a fascinating tale to tell - Bruce Keith

Scotsman Obituaries: Jim Graham, procurator fiscal dedicated to social justice

Devi Sridhar: Online threats should be met with harsher penalties

Outgoing festival director calls for long-term funding pledge to secure future

Miraculous: Edinburgh University student survives bison bull attack

Scotsman Obituaries: George Sutherland, Scottish teacher and educationist

Edinburgh's Jurassic World Dominion film expert writes new children’s dino book

Edinburgh comic Iain Stirling to voice US Love Island

Covid infections rise in Scotland but 'no panic and no restrictions' required

Linda Bauld: Monkeypox shows attitudes to outbreaks have changed after Covid

How worried should we be about monkeypox in Scotland?

£7 million funding for cutting-edge 'precision medicine' research projects

Heritage chiefs consider protecting Cumbernauld town centre as demolition looms

Probe launched after 18 babies died in their first 28 days of life in March

Edinburgh book festival chief urges city to reclaim global culture crown

Edinburgh International Book Festival to relocate to historic hospital building

Book review: Preventable, by Devi Sridhar

Mobile phone app could help gout sufferers

The tiny 'hidden treasure' library where you can hold history in your hands

All the signs are pointing to a full-scale return of the Fringe

More than 100 academics sign letter warning of universities 'crisis'

The Edinburgh Seven leader who secured university education for women

Scientists are uncovering an entirely new way to save lives from Covid

Edinburgh must redress its set-in-stone gender bias – Stephen Jardine

Ground-breaking genetic study suggests possible Covid treatments

Fringe vows to ‘dismantle’ obstacles and become more affordable

Ukraine invasion: Edinburgh University tells its exchange students studying in R...

Debates over the future of Edinburgh's festivals have been reignited

Fringe urged to abandon 'open access' ethos ahead of 75th anniversary

Edinburgh’s festivals urged to 'disperse’ from city centre

Radical change and power shift demanded over arts inequalities in Edinburgh

A lost vision for Edinburgh's 'new New Town' where people walked above the cars

Review launched to examine representation of women at Holyrood

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Budweiser, Tennent's and Diageo challenge alcohol marketing ban proposals

SNP accused of 'incompetence and foot dragging' over latest A9 dualling delay

SNP rebels should call Nicola Sturgeon’s bluff to save their cause