Implications of the EU Referendum on Higher and Further Education

As an amendment to motion S5M-01792 in the name of Shirley-Anne Somerville (Implications of the EU Referendum on Higher and Further Education), leave out from first "the benefits" to end and insert "that Brexit represents a significant change for both further and higher education, and that, alongside challenges, there will be new opportunities for both colleges and universities, especially in developing closer international links with further and higher education institutions in non-EU nations with which Scottish colleges and universities already have expanding collaboration, research projects and knowledge exchange; pays tribute to the resourcefulness and creativity with which further and higher education institutions have always reacted to changing circumstances both at home and abroad; welcomes the existing commitments by the UK Government on EU-funding streams, and calls on the Scottish and UK governments to work together in a constructive manner to support higher and further education in Scotland".