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Official Report Meeting date: 3 September 2002

Subordinate Legislation Committee, 03 Sep 2002

By now we should also be able to contribute something to the conference, given that we are a new legislature that is supposedly committed to decreasing the amount of red tape.

Questions and Answers Date answered: 9 May 2002

S1W-25384

To ask the Scottish Executive what conclusions it has drawn so far from the New Community Schools Initiative. Early feedback from project reports, visits and the Ministerial Steering Group suggests that the New Community Schools Initiative is delivering significant benefits through new ways of working.The New Community Schools Initiative is bringing about better integrated service provision by schools and their partner agencies, making a real difference to the lives of children and their families, the development of closer relationships between schools and parents, and increasing engagement of pupils with their local communities.

Official Report Meeting date: 13 November 2003

Plenary, 13 Nov 2003

Does he believe that the use of new technology in language learning, such as that used in the innovative project in my area—which the First Minister has visited—would be helpful in establishing the case for any such agency to come to Scotland?

Official Report Meeting date: 9 May 2002

Plenary, 09 May 2002

That includes decentralised, more flexible and streamlined management; a new probationary and training system for teachers throughout their lives; new standards and a new system of teacher discipline to ensure that those who cannot teach any more are no longer in the classroom; a new system to supply more support staff to reduce bureaucracy for teachers; a significant increase in teachers' hours; and new flexibility in our schools.

Official Report Meeting date: 23 February 2006

Plenary, 23 Feb 2006

The latest technology, coupled with expert local knowledge and understanding, is an ideal combination for our national health service.

Official Report Meeting date: 15 September 2005

Plenary, 15 Sep 2005

We are opening up for our students new vocational options and new links to colleges to help them to move forward.

Official Report Meeting date: 8 January 2002

Rural Development Committee, 08 Jan 2002

I, too, think that it is important to visit an island, but it is hard to decide which particular one of the 60 to visit.

Questions and Answers Date answered: 10 April 2000

S1W-05625

The Executive and its agencies will maintain the close contact it has had with the company since Marks and Spencer's decision to terminate its contracts with the company last October. Officials visited the company on 28 March to discuss support and also I intend to visit in the next few weeks.

Official Report Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Education Committee, 14 Dec 2005

I support the convener's recommendation that the matter be continued. On 26 October, the minister said:"There are areas of the guidance that we could make firmer.

Official Report Meeting date: 5 October 2006

Plenary, 05 Oct 2006

—Official Report, European and External Relations Committee, 26 September 2006; c 2075 and 2079. This is a significantly changed bill.

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