Scotland's high road to lifelong learning: a foreigner's observations on the Scottish parliament enterprise and lifelong learning committee's final report on lifelong learning

The final report on lifelong learning of the Scottish Parliament's Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Committee is distinctive in being one of the few national lifelong learning policies of such breadth, which apparently express a deep and long-term national commitment to lifelong learning. The Committee's core proposal to make a standard basic entitlement to lifelong learning available to every citizen may have its greatest effect in increasing the demand for postcompulsory education from under-represented groups, since as the Committee observes, one of the challenges in redressing the relatively low participation of under-represented groups is to increase their aspiration to study at the highest level.