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We are collecting information from local authorities on how they are best using devolved school management, so that we can incorporate into the guidance all the latest thinking about how to move the issue forward.
Joint working will develop even further with the new powers. We are seeking to provide a power that will apply once those new powers have been taken up.
The first is my concern that the metrics that are used to measure academic research are probably fundamentally wrong for our society. What you measure is what you get. We measure the number of papers that people publish so we get lots of papers.
Dumfries, Douglas, Annan, Langholm and Stranraer all need to be redeveloped; they all desperately need an injection of money to get them bustling and to get the local economy going again.