Agenda: Access to higher education cannot be widened if the focus is narrow

By Susan Stewart. One of Nicola Sturgeon’s earliest actions as First Minister was to set up a group of experts to look at how to make higher education in Scotland fairer and more accessible. The Commission on Widening Access, chaired by Dame Ruth Silver, was tasked with making recommendations on action the Government could take to ensure young people from disadvantaged areas will have an equal chance of going to university as their peers from better-off backgrounds. More...