The Education and Skills Committee decided to produce the body of its annual report in video format for the Parliamentary reporting year 12 May 2018 to 11 May 2019. This is is available on the Committee's website: https://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/CurrentCommittees/education-committee.aspx

The Committee met 32 times in this Parliamentary year and considered agenda items in private at 32 meetings (48 items in total). The issues that were scrutinised by the Committee are detailed on the Committee's website.

The following members left the Committee during this reporting period:

Ruth Maguire MSP (Committee member 21 March 2017 to 24 May 2018)

James Dornan MSP (7 June 2016 to 6 September 2018)

Gillian Martin MSP (7 June 2016 to 6 September 2018)

Richard Lochhead MSP (16 November 2017 to 6 September 2018)

George Adam MSP (16 November 2017 to 6 September 2018)

Mary Fee MSP (9 January 2018 to 31 October 2018)

The following members joined the Committee during this period:

Gordon MacDonald MSP from 24 May 2018

Alasdair Allan MSP from 6 September 2018

Clare Adamson MSP from 6 September 2018

Rona Mackay MSP from 6 September 2018

Jenny Gilruth MSP from 6 September 2018

Iain Gray MSP from 31 October 2018