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SUMMARY:How systematic is Scotland’s system of tertiary education? - Pro
 fessor Ellen Boeren (University of Glasgow)
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DESCRIPTION:This seminar will present an analysis on the coherences and fr
 agmentations within Scotland’s tertiary education system. It will expand
  on the role of distinct institutional settings such as universities\, Fur
 ther Education Colleges\, and other training providers within the wider po
 st-school education and training sector. The presentation will provide the
  latest insights on the Tertiary Education and Training (Funding and Gover
 nance) (Scotland) Bill\, published in February 2025. In doing so\, it will
  synthesise and contrast the current operations of agencies such as the Sc
 ottish Funding Council and Skills Development Scotland. The seminar will u
 nderline the country’s ambition for further streamlining of and integrat
 ion between relevant stakeholders\, and relate this to the core policy obj
 ective ‘to be more responsive to the needs of learners and the economy
 ’.\n\nEllen Boeren is Professor of Education at the University of Glasgo
 w’s School of Education. She is an active member of the School’s Centr
 e for Research on Adult Development and Lifelong Learning (CR&DALL). She h
 olds a PhD in Educational Sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  in Belgium\, has worked at the University of Edinburgh\, and joined the U
 niversity of Glasgow in 2019. Between 2023 and 2025\, she led the £605k F
 EC ESRC Standard Grant project on the state-of-art and use of adult learni
 ng and education statistics across the countries of the United Kingdom and
  the Republic of Ireland. She is currently leading an ESRC Secondary Data 
 Analysis grant on longitudinal patterns in lifelong learning participation
 \, utilising data from the UK’s Understanding Society. She recently co-a
 uthored the OECD’s report on ‘Rethinking Informal Learning’\, publis
 hed in November 2025. Her other publications include the monograph 'Lifelo
 ng Learning Participation in a Changing Policy Context: an Interdisciplina
 ry Theory' for which she won the 2017 Cyril O. Houle Award for Outstanding
  Contribution to the Adult Education Literature.\nSpeakers:\nProfessor Ell
 en Boeren (University of Glasgow)
LOCATION:15 Norham Gardens (Seminar Room G/H or Teams)\, 15 Norham Gardens
  OX2 6PY
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