The above is from an Irish journalist today. Am I going to have to invent a new term to add to the Anglocentric media Scots face daily? Hibernocentric?
The facts:
Scotland is the best educated country in Europe, according to a report released by the Office for National Statistics.
It says that nearly 45 per cent of people in Scotland aged between 25 and 64 have had some kind of tertiary education – including university degrees and further education — ahead of Ireland, Luxembourg and Finland, which were the only other countries to get more than 40 per cent.
“In terms of the proportion of the population going into higher and tertiary education, Scotland actually has just about the highest in the world,” ONS chief economic adviser Joe Grice told ITV News.
“Scotland also does very well in terms of people in the working-age population (16-64) that have got a qualification at NVQ4 or above.”
The UK as a whole was in fifth place on just under 40 per cent, followed by Cyprus, Estonia and Sweden. Just over 30 per cent of French had a tertiary qualification, while Germany’s figure was less than 30 per cent.
I suppose he’s correct, strictly speaking, in suggesting Scotland is not comparable – we’re stupidly (!) not independent.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Well education is devolved so I suppose we could say it is independent 😉
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It’s not ‘devolved’. Education, as with Scots Law and Healthcare, has never been part of the English system, though I guess health (NHS) has been controlled by the English government in the past. If the Scottish parliament was closed down by England’s envoy/viceroy tomorrow, effectively, unless things have ‘changed’, Educ/Law/Health would still be ‘independent’ of the English system.
Let’s hope independence is secured soon, or else the EngGov might just try to ‘change’
Scotland’s long standing independent education system to the detriment of Scotland.
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so this has the Scottish figure and the uk as a whole figure but what are the figures for the other subjugated nations?
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And we still voted against independence in 2014.
And we still voted Labour in 2024.
Must still be things wrong with our education.
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2014 too soon
2024 too late voters regret
Next IndyRef just right.
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