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We have had lots of questions from teachers through our liaison team, our SQA co-ordinators and our contact centre, and from young people and their parents.
SEDA called for VAT reductions on retrofit to match new-build rates. Some responses expressed concern about underfunding and slow progress in specific sectors.
SEDA called for VAT reductions on retrofit to match new-build rates. Some responses expressed concern about underfunding and slow progress in specific sectors.
SEDA called for VAT reductions on retrofit to match new-build rates. Some responses expressed concern about underfunding and slow progress in specific sectors.
A senior academic from a modern university and an international doctoral student from an ancient university expressed the opinion that they can accept hard decisions and/or outcomes, but what makes the process difficult for everyone is when they are deliberately kept uninformed of the major issues facing the university until it is too late to react.
The principal ideas the Committee examined are:
Better use and awareness of super-affirmative procedures;
The Parliament having the ability to amend secondary legislation, or giving the Parliament a think again / conditional approval power; and
Abolition of negative and affirmative procedure and a sift to allow the Parliament to express a view on procedure ...
Conclusions
The Committee recognises the concerns expressed to us by some witnesses that the changes to the time limit for bringing defamation action may operate unfairly in some circumstances – in particular, where it takes time to find out that a defamatory statement has been made and where the effects of a defamatory statement are cumulative.
The Policy Memorandum prepared by the Scottish Government states that the overarching policy objectives of the Bill are to modernise and simplify the law of defamation (and the related action of malicious publication) in Scotland in order to:
strike a more appropriate balance between freedom of expression and the protection of individual reputation; and
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