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Older pupils can benefit from access to the wider range of relevant vocational qualifications offered by SQA and pathways such as the new Foundation Apprenticeship in Software Development introduced by Skills Development Scotland.
Work is well underway on the AWPR and this will be completed within the currently parliamentary session with new roads on programme to be open to traffic in winter 2017-18.
The additional funding will also be used to support the development of new local services in Orkney and Shetland and to expand the local service in West Lothian.
Why do we need legislation to allow universities to have new ideas? The specific academic freedom is about the freedom for academics to express their new ideas.
Most of the data are recorded on a centralised system nationally, but it is taking a bit of time for the GP data to get through to that. Our latest estimate for vaccinations across the whole of NHS Highland is around 18,000; we reckon that we have reached about one third of the over-80s.
I want to ensure that our approach to biometric data—including from new technologies such as facial recognition software—is effective, proportionate and ethical.
We are keeping people alive for longer, and therefore their requirements and needs are more extensive. We have innovation, new technology and new drugs. Just in NHS Highland, we have had a 35 per cent increase in the cost of hospital acute drugs in the past five years.