Commissioner for Fair Access: annual report 2025/26
In the seventh annual report from the Commissioner for Fair Access - and second from the current Commissioner - the Commissioner celebrates the work done so far to make access to higher education fairer, noting that it is now time to pivot and introduce a new phase of work.
Glossary
CEO Chief Executive Officer
CoWA Commission on Widening Access
FEI Further Education Institutions (colleges in Scotland)
FTFD full-time, first-degree
HEI Higher Education Institutions (universities and equivalent specialist institutions)
HESA Higher Education Statistics Agency
HN Higher National (qualifications)
HNC Higher National Certificate
HND Higher National Diploma
NSP National Schools Programme
RoWA Report on Widening Access
SAAS Student Awards Agency Scotland
SCAPP Scottish Community of Access and Participation Practitioners
SCQF Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework
SFC Scottish Funding Council
SIMD Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation
SIMD10 One of Scotland’s 10% Most Deprived Areas
SIMD20 One of Scotland’s 20% Most Deprived Areas
SIMD20-40 One of the areas in Scotland that are within the second lowest quintile, according to area deprivation ranking (marginally less deprived, compared to SIMD20)
SIMD20-100 Not one of Scotland’s 20% Most Deprived Areas
SLC Student Loans Company
SWAP Scottish Widening Access Programme
UCAS Universities and Colleges Admissions Service
WARF Widening Access Retention Fund
Contact
Email: clara.pirie@gov.scot