"Edinburgh held 12 contracts and received 26 documents from Nous or related entities between January 2022 and September 2025.
As early as February 2022, it had provided the university with a “draft vision” and a “strategy and roadmap” report."
Lucy Weir
The consultancy Nous takes hundreds of thousands of pounds from universities, leaves the exact same path of destruction everywhere, and keeps trying to avoid transparent contracts.
We’re urgently need control over consultancy spent in #UKHE, @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social
Scotland’s largest university has turned to Nous Group at the same time as it is making savings that could lead to nearly 2,000 job losses. Staff say they were misled about the extent of its work.
