26/04/2024The political impact of the Scottish Government's decision last week to drop its 2030 climate change target hit home yesterday…- 12/04/2024The latest edition of the Oxford Journal of Education has a study looking at reactions to Scotland’s declining results in…
27/03/2024I’m passionate about Scottish Education and though I’ve been away from the chalkface for 17 years, I still like to…
18/01/2024In Scotland, we have become very good at aspirations in education. However, we should be learning that we don’t address…
15/01/2024Whilst retailers were trying to deliver a fantastic Christmas for Scotland’s shoppers the Finance Secretary Shona Robison instead focused on…- 20/12/2023Those of us of a certain age will remember that moment when we first saw a computer in our classroom.…
13/12/2023Can you remember the time when we used to position ourselves at the front door of our homes and applaud…- 08/12/2023The release of Reform Scotland's paper 'Absent Minds: Attendance and Absence in Scotland's Schools' in October 2023 brought with it…
- 05/12/2023The headlines for Scottish education from the latest round of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) are dismaying. In…
- 24/11/2023Education has once again moved high up the political agenda, the air thick with policy pledges – to deliver increased…
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