To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S3W-980 and S3W-2155 by Fiona Hyslop on 3 July and 6 August 2007 respectively, why the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning stated on 13 June 2007 “Believe it or not, for the first time since the reformation, there has been a drop in the share of the population studying in higher education in Scotland” (Official Report c. 629), when her source, Prof R D Anderson: Scottish Education since the Reformation, Studies in Scottish Economic and Social History No. 5, Edinburgh 1997, indicates in table 6, page 46 a fall in the population share studying higher education in Scotland between 1800 and 1861 and between 1881 and 1911.