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The Scottish Government has committed to expanding our Attainment Fund and investing an additional £750 million during this parliament to close the gap in educational attainment. To date the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation has been used to identify schools and local authorities with high concentrations of pupils experiencing socio-economic challenges...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 December 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish the responses it has received from local authorities to requests by the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning to make St Andrew’s Day a school holiday. Ten responses to the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning''s letters of 23 January and 6 November 2009 to education conveners asking them to consider making St Andrew''s Day a school holiday are available from the Scottish Parliament''s Information Centre (Bib. number 49780).
New Zealand and other countries are all looking at ways of bringing their assessment systems and curriculums up to date. If there is on-going internal debate in Scotland but no movement—dare I say it?
Since 1939, 62 countries have become independent from the United Kingdom and, to date, none has asked to return. Almost all those countries have codified a constitution.
If the inspectorate is doing its job properly, it has an absolutely up-to-date knowledge of what is happening throughout Scottish schools because of the evidence that comes through the inspection programme.
My concerns were simply that the flexibility about the date and timing and the circumstances of the next election to this place should not lie solely or even mainly in the hands of ministers.
If we are serious about inclusive growth, the 2021 date for the roll-out of R100 should be seen as the very last date, and rural communities should not be expected to fall behind cities.