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Scottish Funding Council Insight Briefings are a new and important part of our ambition to spread knowledge and generate new ideas.
Based on the data and analysis available to us as Scotland’s tertiary education and research authority, Insight Briefings examine key issues within our tertiary education and research system.
Commission on Widening Access 2030 target
This Scottish Funding Council (SFC) Insight Briefing takes a closer look at progress towards the Commission on Widening Access 2030 target. The target is that, by then, students from the 20% most deprived areas in Scotland will represent 20% of Scottish entrants to full-time first degree courses at university. The shorthand for this group is SIMD20. The target is to be met via a series of milestones, including a 2026 milestone of 18%.
The Briefing explains and quantifies two pipelines for making progress. It examines what colleges and universities have achieved, and it looks at what this has meant for students. It concludes by describing the challenges in meeting the target.
SFC Strategic Plan 2022-27
Building a connected, agile, sustainable tertiary education and research system for Scotland.