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HE students in colleges: the net impact of fee and grant policy since 2007
In response to some challenging statistics from UCAS on inequality in access to HE, the Scottish Government has recently been keen to stress the important contribution of college-level HE to widening...
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FM: “We must have a debate based on facts” (although they may need to be...
what I want is, Facts. … Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. .. Stick to Facts, sir! (Thomas Gradgrind, Hard Times: Charles Dickens) …I simply pointed out...
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School leaver destinations: HE still popular in 2014, but less “sticky”
The SG’s annual statistics on school leaver destinations were published yesterday. The information is collected via surveys in September and March and, among other things, provides a snap shot of how...
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A picture of education inequality
Here, thanks to the underlying data provided as part of last week’s new version of SIMD, is one picture of what education inequality looks like in modern Scotland. The graph above takes the 6,976...
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Displacing the privileged vs squeezing the middle: a bit more evidence
The discussion in Scotland about widening access to university remains dominated by the idea that any “displacement” will be a problem mainly (or even only) for the most advantaged. As the journalist...
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How far is Scotland from meeting its 2021 widening access targets?
This post looks at what today’s data from the Scottish Funding Council suggests about the scale of change needed to meet the Scottish Government’s targets for widening access to university. The 2021...
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Scottish Government special advisers: a quiet re-jigging round HE, and...
The Scottish Government has quietly re-jigged its Special Advisers. Kate Higgins returns to the education brief for early years, and further and higher education. Ms Higgins had a general education...
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Comparing entry rates to university: the (data) gap that could easily be reduced
The First Minister was interviewed yesterday by Andrew Neil. One journalist reported that “Sturgeon says difference in university access rates for poorer pupils between Scot & Eng down to different...
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Long-term and short-term trends in education spending in Scotland: who’s right?
There was some debate at First Minister’s Questions this week about trends in school spending. This post looks at the claims made (labelled below for ease of reference). In brief, the increase claimed...
View ArticleRethinking the four year degree
There’s a head of steam building in Scotland to make it easier for school leavers to get an honours degree in three years. The most recent intervention is the report of the Scottish Government’s 15-24...
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