"Educational attainment and inequality in Scotland:
How does Scotland compare with the rest of the UK?"

Date: Wednesday 28^th August 2013

Venue:  G.21 Paterson’s Land, Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh

Competition and diversity in UK Higher Education – online learning models, alternative providers and the changing shape of the sector

with

Professor Martin Bean, Vice-Chancellor, The Open University; Dr Stephen Jackson, Director of Reviews, QAA; Gordon McKenzie, Deputy Director, Higher Education Structure and Shape, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and Andy Westwood, Chief Executive, GuildHE

Montreal 2013 is the first global event of the World Congress on Access to Post-Secondary Education. It is also the first step on our journey to build and enact an agenda for change that will ensure more participation also means wider participation and success.

Globally, participation in higher education has risen substantially. According to the OECD ( Education at a Glance 2012) entry rates to university level programmes in OECD countries grew on average by nearly 25 percentage points between 1995 and 2010. Consequently, more than a third of today’s young people have higher level qualifications than their parents and around 62% of young adults are expected to enter university - level programmes over their lifetimes.