Language issues in Scottish education
There are two current issues in primary education which may, in some ways, conflict – certainly conceptually and, just now, in terms of competition for available funding. Both are language centred.One...
View ArticleIGGY may help Scotland’s brightest pupils overcome decline in educational...
More than half of Scotland’s 13 Universities have become so disturbed at the decline in the standards of primary and secondary education – in Scotland and throughout the UK – that they have had no...
View ArticleScotland’s joke education where none can fail
Scotland is looking, on the one hand, at a situation where universities have had to introduce remedial classes for degree students – and on the other, the revelation today that the Standard Grade...
View ArticleNATIONHOOD: The For Argyll Referendum Project
Think about Scotland in 2050. What sort of a country do you want it to be by then? Prepare to share that vision.We’re not interested in the ‘now’ or in the vested interests and mantras of either Better...
View ArticleNationhood: Talking about Education
Taking 2050 as the snapshot in time, as we decided to do in this project, lets all of us take the long view forward to a period where, independent or in the UK, much of the strategic thinking and the...
View ArticleCrisis at Rothesay Joint Campus: will Audit Scotland engage?
Back on 16th April, a group of highly concerned parents wrote to Audit Scotland asking it to intervene in a crisis situation, of three years duration and worsening, at Rothesay Joint campus on the Isle...
View ArticleCrisis as Scotland’s education system fails young people in the absolute basics
A year ago today, 1st May 2014, it was revealed that a nationwide classroom survey had found that basic numeracy skills among Scottish youngsters were falling.More than a third – 34% – of children in...
View Article‘Progressive’ politics – insights and measures
During this 2015 UK General Election campaign to come to its conclusions this Thursday, 7th May, the SNP Party Leader, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon began and continued repeatedly to brand her party...
View ArticleAudit Scotland says Scotland has no consistent approach to tracking pupils’...
The Scottish Government is failing to track the educational performance of pupils, despite monitoring tools being available.The issue was highlighted in a debate on skills, training and qualifications...
View ArticleJackie Baillie leads debate on inequality in school education
Local MSP, Jackie Baillie, challenged the SNP Government to take immediate and strong action to halt rising inequality in education, during a debate she led at Holyrood this week.The Scottish Labour...
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