Singing the blues

9th September 2005, 1:00am

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Singing the blues

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So the new chair of the Scottish Funding Council is a blue nose. John McClelland has an impressive business and education CV, but is best-known as a member of the board at Rangers and a former chairman, no less.

Who better then to control the purse strings of the universities and colleges? As right-hand man to David Murray, the Rangers owner, McClelland was charged with managing the club’s astronomical debt of pound;74 million.

He ain’t seen nothing yet.

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