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Professor Todd Walker is logging in to do his role at the University of the Highlands and Islands from Australia THE new principal of the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) is getting used to doing the nightshift . That s because Professor Todd Walker is logging in to do the job from his home in Australia after Covid delayed his relocation to Scotland. Since starting the principal and vice-chancellor job on Monday, his working day has run from 7pm until 2.30am, Australian Eastern Daylight Time. It s been a long first week, he tells the Sunday National, but he s got big plans to turn UHI into the envy of European competitors and put the institution at the forefront of Scotland s coronavirus recovery.
Opposition to the promotion of the Scots language is rooted in ignorance and prejudice, campaigners have claimed.Champions of the “mither tongue” spoke out as a Scots dictionary app, backed by the
Michael Sheen might not know the Scots word for trolling, but the Welsh actor is being toasted by one of social media’s most popular and controversial linguists after she was bombarded with online