This project forms part of the ESRC’s Future of the UK and Scotland Programme.
Its broad aim is to consider the future challenges and opportunities faced by higher education in Scotland and the rest of the UK in the case of further devolution or a vote for independence in autumn 2014. This seminar examines a range of policy futures. During the course of the day, we will consider the implications of different constitutional arrangements in relation to the following:

• Undergraduate student finance
• Research funding
• Immigration and international students
• Shared services such as UCAS and QAA
• The university workforce

This Briefing sets the scene by outlining some of the central issues drawn from scenario planning on lifelong learning and Scotland’s future conducted by the Goodison Group in Scotland and the Scottish Parliament’s Scotland’s Future Forum in 2013  http://www.ggis.org.uk