UK Business Succession Index

Education / Training (General) succession in Scotland

343 of 1,069 education / training (general) companies in Scotland — 32.1% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured1,069
Director aged 60+343
Exposure rate32.1%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology
1,069
Companies measured
343
Director 60+
133
Director 70+
32.1%
Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; education / training (general) nationally runs at 32.5%.

MeasureCompanies
Education / Training (General) companies in Scotland measured1,069
Oldest director aged 60 or over343
Oldest director aged 70 or over133

Of the 343 with a director over 60, 11 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Education / Training (General) in other regions

Region60+Rate
Northern Ireland17648.4%
South West74840.6%
North East22536.2%
South East1,24636.1%
Wales29935.6%
Yorkshire & The Humber56933.1%
East of England65432.5%
East Midlands37831%

Other trades in Scotland

Trade60+Rate
Lettings3,93037.6%
Consultancy Services3,89840.8%
Retail2,68025.9%
Agriculture2,26651.5%
Other Leisure2,25032.8%
Investment2,10433.7%
Engineering Services2,06533.5%
Investment / Fund Management1,50540.7%

Combinations with fewer than 250 measured companies are not listed separately. They are still counted in every total on this page.

Next step

This page counts director ages across the whole register. If you are looking to buy rather than to research, our Education & Training pages go further: we score each company on business quality and exit timing, and shortlist the ones worth approaching.

See UK Education & Training →

See all Education / Training (General) succession data or everything in Scotland.

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ExitRadar, "Education / Training (General) succession in Scotland", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/svc-education/scotland/

Need a cut that is not published here — a different trade grouping, a finer geography, or the underlying distribution? Get in touch and we will usually provide it. Methodology.

Method. Figures cover the 3,475,770 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director — 93.8% of the 3,706,712 companies on the active register. A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over — not the board average, which would hide a 70-year-old founder sitting alongside younger co-directors. The business-quality figure covers only the subset our model assesses — see the methodology for why that is far smaller than the number with filed accounts. Data as at 13 August 2026; updated quarterly, next update October 2026. Full methodology.