Higher Education at a Distance: The Special Problems of Scotland

For the foreseeable future the major agent of distance education at the post-secondary level throughout Britain will continue to be the commercial correspondence course, a sector of immense size, sophistication and influence that has been largely ignored by most general commentators on the British educational scene. Enormous numbers of lawyers, commerce students and candidates for London external degrees have sought the services of the correspondence colleges and their efficient tutors for many decades past and will, no doubt, continue to do so for the remainder of the century in Scotland as much as in the remainder of the United Kingdom.