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I am happy to reassure Irene McGugan on that issue. On my visit to the Borders yesterday, I found it interesting to note that some young people identified that it was not in their interests to have stressed teachers.
For example, we could look forward to another Glasgow side getting into the premier league next year. From our visits to the SQA offices, we felt that more needed to be done about staff confidence.
I put pressure on them to do something about it—perhaps even to make a home visit, on which someone with training would recognise the problem—but my request was refused.
Dr Ewing is absolutely right—I will say a bit more about raspberries later.About three years ago, a group from Tayside visited Finland to see at first hand how the Finns had advanced their project.
CCTV gives passengers at unstaffed stations the reassurance that somebody is watching. On a recent visit to Paisley, it was interesting to watch how it works in practice and to see the level of scrutiny in stations with CCTV.
If they get that decision right they get a premium—so they have an incentive to get it right—and if they do not get the decision right, they make slightly less of a return.