- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 23 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what the timetable is for the implementation of a student bursary scheme and whether this is dependent upon the progress of the Education (Graduate Endowment and Student Support) (Scotland) Bill.
Answer
From the start of the academic year 2001-02, we intend to introduce a wide-ranging package of measures to assist students and their families, including bursaries for mature students and for young students entering higher education from low income backgrounds for the first time. The Education (Graduate Endowment and Student Support) (Scotland) Bill will enable us to proceed with this package, as the income from the graduate endowment will be applied exclusively to fund bursary and other student support.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 21 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what strategy it has to promote the selling of Scottish education abroad in terms of both attendance at Scottish colleges and universities and the acquisition and sale of educational packages prepared by them and whether it will make funding available and, if so, how much and when.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to S1W-10670.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 21 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has considered the report on the New Deal by the Federation of Small Businesses, Creating the Right Person for Your Job; what response it will make to the recommendations and content of the report, and whether it has any plans to implement any of its recommendations.
Answer
The Scottish Executive welcomes this report produced by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), in collaboration with the Employment Service.
The Scottish Executive and the Employment Service, with the support of the Scottish New Deal Advisory Task Force, organised a seminar on 11 October to consider the conclusions of the report. This brought together FSB Regional Chairmen and Employment Service District Manager to look at ways to forge closer links with small businesses and promote New Deal at a local level in Scotland. The task force, in co-operation with the FSB and Employment Service, is monitoring progress on this initiative.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sam Galbraith on 21 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what additional funds are being made available to provide flood prevention and defence schemes, showing amounts and dates remitted, broken down by local authority.
Answer
Following the Spending Review, the former Minister for Finance, Mr McConnell, announced increased provision for the local authority non-housing capital programme for the construction of flood prevention or coast protection schemes. It will be for councils to come forward with suitable schemes to take up these increased resources.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 21 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail the proposed involvement of Sony in any development at Pacific Quay; whether there has been a change in their possible involvement and, if so, whether it will provide details, and whether the costs of the proposed facilities are affected in any way and, if so, how.
Answer
In relation to Pacific Quay, there is currently no proposed involvement with Sony.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 November 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 21 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will direct or encourage Scottish Trade International, Scottish Enterprise, Highlands and Islands Enterprise and other such bodies promoting Scotland to actively market Scottish Knowledge.
Answer
Scottish Knowledge is a private company and as such it is responsible for its own marketing strategy.
However, the Executive recognises that activity to promote Scotland is enhanced by a collaborative, inclusive approach, which allows and encourages the appropriate involvement of a range of public and private sector organisations.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 October 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Wendy Alexander on 21 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to promote Scottish education and learning abroad and what financial assistance is available to individual enterprises or organisations to carry out such work.
Answer
Scottish Trade International provides funding to Scottish Education + Training (SE+T) which is a joint initiative with the British Council Scotland and Scotland's education sector. SE+T's aim is to promote Scottish education and training expertise and in its first three years £10 million of additional overseas earnings and 160 new entries to SE+T priority markets by Scottish institutions can be attributed to its activities.
SE+T is also working with the Scottish Executive which is one of the funding partners, with UK Government Departments, the other devolved administrations and the British Council, in the strategy to attract more international students to the UK which was launched by the Prime Minister in June 1999. As part of the strategy, a three-year worldwide marketing campaign is being undertaken based around a UK Education Brand. A Scottish version of the Brand logo and a separate brochure promoting Scottish education have been produced.
Scottish Trade International also continues to provide specialist advice and support to individual institutions and assistance towards participation in overseas missions.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 October 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 20 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many secondary schools in each local authority area do not have sufficient premises or facilities to offer technological studies.
Answer
The information requested is not collected centrally.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 October 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 20 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many schools in each local authority area offer technological studies as an option in second year and what percentage of each local authority's secondary schools this figure represents.
Answer
Information on schools which offer technological studies options in second year is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 October 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jack McConnell on 20 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive how many qualified teachers of technological studies there currently are in each local authority area and how many such teachers there were in each local authority area in each of the last five years.
Answer
No information is collected centrally on teachers specifically teaching technological studies. The information available on the teachers with a teaching qualification in technological education, which includes the subjects of technological studies, graphic communications, craft and design and practical craft skills, can be obtained from the statistical bulletin, Teachers in Scotland: September 1998, published in March 2000 which is in the Parliament's Reference Centre.
