In February 2012, Scottish Ministers announced changes to the college landscape as part of wider reforms introduced by the Post-16 Education (Scotland) Act. This led to the formation of 13 college regions. During this time, college mergers reduced the number of colleges down from 41 in 2011 to 26 currently. The majority of these colleges sit within the 13 regions.
Highlands and Islands
Argyll College UHI
Inverness College UHI
Lews Castle College UHI
Moray College UHI
North Highland College UHI
Orkney College UHI
Perth College UHI
Shetland College UHI
West Highland College UHI
Glasgow
Glasgow Kelvin College
Glasgow Clyde College
City of Glasgow College
Lanarkshire
South Lanarkshire College
New College Lanarkshire
Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire
North East Scotland College
Ayrshire
Ayrshire College
Borders
Borders College
Forth Valley
Forth Valley College
Dumfries and Galloway
Dumfries & Galloway College
Edinburgh and Lothians
Edinburgh College
Fife
Fife College
Tayside
Dundee and Angus College
West
West College Scotland
West Lothian
West Lothian College
Outwith regional arrangements
Sabhal Mòr Ostaig UHI
Newbattle Abbey College
Scotland's Rural College
Recent reviews by the Scottish Funding Council have recommended more changes to the way multi-regional colleges are run and closer collaboration between colleges and universities.
The Committee looked at what has been learned from this over the past decade and how this might inform future change within sector.
It sought views on college regionalisation regarding on the following topics:
Published responses for College regionalisation - Scottish Parliament - Citizen Space.
Informal Engagement
The Committee held an informal engagement session with senior figures from Developing the young Workforce. Here are the notes from this meeting
The Committee published its report of the College Regionalisation Inquiry on 21 March 2023. You can read the report here.
The Committee took evidence on the 1st, 8th and 15th June, 21st September, 5th October and 2nd November 2022.