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Scottish ParliamentProcedures CommitteeTuesday 26 June 2001(Morning) Scottish ParliamentProcedures CommitteeTuesday 26 June 2001(Morning) The Convener opened the meeting at 10:31 Good morning.
As my visits around the country have confirmed, the new qualifications are benefiting people in the 16 to 18 age group with different abilities and levels of achievement.
I wanted to know that, too, because a lot of the people who were glad that we had taken the time to visit them were anxious to see how the visits would be written up.
Five-to-14 test data show that since 1997, in primary 7, attainment is up by 7 per cent in maths, by 10 per cent in reading and by 14 per cent in writing.