Reporting progress

Scotland’s Fair Access Conference

Our annual joint national conference with NUS Scotland, previously called Learning for All, is a good-practice sharing event looking at progress in widening access to further and higher education.

2018 conference

This year's conference was on 12 June at Perth Concert Hall - see full details of Scotland's Fair Access Conference.

Regional access events

We held five regional access events in 2017, view the presentations and discussions from the event.

Report on Widening Access

SFC Report on Widening Access 2016-17

SFC Report on Widening Access 2015-16

Learning for All reports

Our first Learning for All report was published in 2005 following a review of access activity and research across the Scottish college and university sectors. We established a range of measures which would help us determine if we have been successful in taking effective action to address the core causes.

• Learning for All: tenth update report on measures of success 2016 - in light of the final report of the Commission for Widening Access we published our latest report in September 2017 under the new title SFC Report on Widening Access. Any data tables removed from the publication will be available on request.
• Learning for All: Measures of Success: 9th Update Report
• Learning for All 2014: Eighth Update Report

Earlier Learning for All reports are available on the SFC archive.

Further information

Enquiries should be made to Anna Thomson, tel: 0131 313 6605, email: athomson@sfc.ac.uk.