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We hope that they will go early in the new year. You will note that the procedure for determinations is up for decision by the Parliament on Thursday afternoon.
Future Skills Scotland is still relatively new. The funding council has been working with Future Skills Scotland on survey work with employers, but that is still evolving.
I can advise members that I have received some details of the prospective programme from the deputy private secretary to the Presiding Officer. According to the latest version of the programme, the Norwegian committee is coming on Thursday 27 April until Friday 28 April.
I can advise members that I have received some details of the prospective programme from the deputy private secretary to the Presiding Officer. According to the latest version of the programme, the Norwegian committee is coming on Thursday 27 April until Friday 28 April.
Thirty years ago, about 18 per cent of girls and boys left school with three or more highers. Now, 26 per cent of boys and 34 per cent of girls get the equivalent qualifications at level 6 or better.
We should write to the Prison Service on that issue. The visit was useful. We wanted to see the new conditions for female prisoners who have moved to Greenock from Cornton Vale.
During an evidence-taking session on school closures at the Education Committee's meeting of 26 May 2004, the Minister for Education and Young People stated that his officials were preparing draft material on the process that local authorities should follow and on the factors that they need to weigh up.
I am conscious that the labelling we now have on eggs lets the consumer decide what kind of eggs to buy according to organic standards, animal welfare standards or whatever, which is great from our perspective.