Welcome to the Higher Education website. We have designed these pages in order to give you quick and easy access to the latest information on higher education policy in Scotland and key documents such as the recently published Framework for Higher Education in Scotland. For ease of reference, we have also included useful links to associated UK goverment departments, other devolved administrations, Scottish Higher Education Institutions and other appropriate organisations. If you can't find what you need, please contact us on the number on the contacts page and we will do our best to help.
The Higher Education general policy team deals with all policy matters related to the provision of higher education in Scotland. This encompasses a wide range of activity, which centres around delivering on Ministerial priorities for higher education. Areas of work include legislation on higher education; providing annual funding of around £800m to the sector via the Funding Council; international and EU matters with relevance to HE in Scotland; widening access to higher education; Public Sector Skills; and driving other initiatives, such as the Scottish HE Review.