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Tuesday, 25 March 2014 17:41

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  By a Newsnet reporter
 
The SNP has welcomed evidence from university principals who appeared in front of the Scottish Parliament’s Education and Culture Committee today, after they rebutted No campaign claims that uncertainty was damaging the sector.
 
Giving evidence today, a number of experts made clear that the prospect of independence had not deterred investment in research in Scotland, and that Scotland is an increasingly attractive destination for talent in the education field – despite the No campaign’s continued assertions that the referendum could lead to ‘uncertainty’.

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Sunday, 23 March 2014 23:47

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  By a Newsnet reporter
 
The President of the EC, Jose Manuel Barroso has lost out in the race to become the next Secretary General of NATO.
 
According to Norwegian news outlet Aftenposten, former Norwegian PM Jens Stoltenberg will become NATO’s next Secretary General and is expected to be appointed when the organisation’s foreign ministers meet in Brussels in April.

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Sunday, 23 March 2014 16:04

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  By Martin Kelly
 
UK Chancellor George Osborne’s reasons for rejecting a currency union with an independent Scotland lie in tatters today after a top economist described them as lacking logic.
 
In a withering analysis of the evidence behind Mr Osborne’s recent speech in which the Chancellor claimed he would block an agreement on currency, Professor Leslie Young, of the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business in Beijing, accused the Tory MP of basing his stance on a “lurid collage of fact, conjecture and fantasy”.