Alex Salmond calls for line to be drawn under college funding affair ALEX SALMOND today called on opposition parties to draw a line under the row over college funding which saw him forced to apologise to MSPs in Parliament last week. Opposition parties are calling for new powers for Scottish Government to hire and fire college boards to be ditched The First Minister was forced to admit that he got it wrong in a Holyrood debate after claiming that college funding was going up in Scotland - when in fact it's falling. But opposition parties should have the "grace" to accept he said sorry at the earliest opportunity and "move on," Mr Salmond said today. "They say that apologies are good for the soul - I made one last week and if I make a mistake I take responsibility for it and apologise," Mr Salmond told BBC Radio Scotland today. If I picked up every single error from the opposition parties on a daily basis in the Parliament, then the Parliament would do nothing else but talk about its mistakes. He added: "Most Parliaments, in fact all Parliaments I've ever seen when this happens, accept that and move on. The Labour party seem neither to have the grace to accept things and certainly not the will to move on. The Holyrood row followed a controversial spat between Education Secretary Mike Russell and Stow College chairman Kirk Ramsay. The latter was forced to quit after it emerged he made a recording of a meeting on reforms of the sector. His resignation came amid claims of bullying at the hands of Mr Russell. The First Minister said today that the figures he provided for this year and next year were correct. But he added: "What happened was that in the document I was given I forgot to add on the additional spending which had been allocated for last year. So it was actually a mistake where we underestimated the amount that had been spent last year in Scotland. It may be the first time that a Government has underestimated the amount of money by around £9 million.