Education / Training (General) succession in Scotland

Name: Education / Training (General) business succession in Scotland
Creator: ExitRadar
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369 of 1,136 education / training (general) companies in Scotland (32.5%) have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured1,136

Director aged 60+369

Exposure rate32.5%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,631,842·Data as at 11 October 2026·Full methodology

1,136

Companies measured

369

Director 60+

144

Director 70+

32.5%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.4%; education / training (general) nationally runs at 32.6%.

Measure	Companies
Education / Training (General) companies in Scotland measured	1,136
Oldest director aged 60 or over	369
Oldest director aged 70 or over	144

Of the 369 with a director over 60, 11 score 50 or higher on business quality. That figure is an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Education / Training (General) in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
Northern Ireland	188	48.8%
South West	780	40.9%
North East	235	36.5%
Wales	291	35.9%
South East	1,397	35.7%
East of England	836	32.6%
East Midlands	495	32.4%
Yorkshire & The Humber	539	32%

Other trades in Scotland

Trade	60+	Rate
Lettings	4,028	37%
Consultancy Services	3,979	40.5%
Retail	2,697	25.3%
Agriculture	2,268	50.9%
Other Leisure	2,235	32.6%
Engineering Services	2,119	33.4%
Investment	2,115	33.3%
Investment / Fund Management	1,634	40.5%

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.

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ExitRadar, "Education / Training (General) succession in Scotland", UK Business Succession Index, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/svc-education/scotland/

Need a cut that is not published here, such as 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 3,631,842 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director (94.0% of the 3,863,328 companies on the active register). A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over. We do not use 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 11 October 2026; updated quarterly, next update January 2027. Full methodology.