While the policy problems may be similar, Ewart Keep finds that approaches to further and higher education are rapidly diverging between Scotland and England.
Read the comment paper at https://wonkhe.com/blogs/comparing-skills-policy-in-england-and-scotland/

Ewart Keep, Professor (Emeritus) of Education, Training and Skills, SKOPE, Department of Education, Oxford University, and a board member of the Scottish Funding Council, writes here in a personal capacity.