Five months on from the revelation that Dundee University faces a £30 million deficit we have arrived at the same conclusion that was known from day one — the Scottish Government will have to bail out the institution.

The intervening five months has seen the university lurch from one disaster to another.

We now have an advisory group of Scottish university principals supporting what remains of the University Executive Group (UEG); an internal audit being carried out by PwC; an independent investigation into financial oversight and decision making, and most recently the Scottish Government’s advisory taskforce.

The reason for such high-level intervention has been the utter failure of the UEG to change direction since November 12 2024 or to demonstrate competence.

Instead, the UEG has been burning the university to the ground.

It has been completely unable to gain bank finance, running down the clock on its ability to pay salaries and keep the lights on. It has also provided textbook examples in how to fail at public relations with the abandoned proposal for a £200,000 interim transformation........

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