The Scottish Herald report:

Statistics on the make-up of the boards running universities and colleges show that on average fewer than one-third of members are women.

Men also dominate the senior management teams of Scottish universities, although the picture is better in the college sector, where approaching half in management are women.

Scottish Labour’s equalities spokeswoman Jackie Baillie, whose team gathered the figures, said they showed a glass ceiling was still in place in higher and further education.

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