Scottish Independence Debate

Scottish Education is a sitting duck. Whilst we are saving the NHS, with the help of the armed forces and Captain Tom our kids get the…

There are several aims school education struggles with: towards the top preparing for the world of work and further study; this used to be…

Janet Goodall Book(s) review

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Lately there is a focus on practical Parkinson’s/Dementia related research application from a Buddies program at Edinburgh University to…

(added 17/11 — why is the funding being cut to edu so much in Aberdeen)

According to govt figures the Scots population has been rising steadily (about 10% since the turn of the century to approximately 5.5…

There is debate about education cuts presently. Below are listed the Senior Leaders in Shacklewell Primary School in London, from the pdf…

The yet to be built Bayes Centre at Edinburgh replaces (?) the School of Informatics as one of the hubs for the DataLab. Mr Richardson’s…

Today Universities Scotland were quoted in the press: “ ..better data was needed so that the proportion of students from the poorest areas…

(view from Scotland but currently sitting in England) The SNP, which has displaced Labour to 3rd place (tories currently 2nd in Holyrood) &…

There was a moment during the Holyrood debate today when the pressure seemed to get to the Education Minister. The description of the…

“But definitions are not the key to understanding a concept. Daisy Christodoulou’s new book (Making Good Progress) quotes Thomas Kuhn when…

Ostensibly expert opinion sometimes has the wrong idea(s). Take the letter in Friday’s Times (15/2/17) from a Glasgow ex-teacher calling…

Aberdeen has problems: London prices, low Oil price, expensive homes but more importantly a teacher shortage. John Swinney came to the…

Benjamin Franklin being potentially electrocuted as he flies a kite in a storm is the image, carefully chosen, at the start of the article…

The Scottish Attainment Challenge is a way to improve “equity and attainment” by directly funding schools deemed in need of extra resource…

The below comes from the Peterborough Telegraph in Cambridgeshire, UK newspaper and shows a results summary table of the City’s schools…

Over the past weeks there have been news reports on a procession of stakeholders against the SNP government’s educational reform proposals…