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I would hope that I would be able to tell you a start date within a reasonable time. The start date will have to be the start of an academic year, so clearly it cannot now be the start of the academic year 2012-13.
We came across an interesting example of that when we helped the Buchanan community on the banks of Loch Lomond. The community has a crucial need for affordable housing, because of the pressures from commuters, holiday homes and the national park.
If you want to signal that you mean what you say with curriculum for excellence, you should first demob the national assessment bank. Indeed, that would be a nice wee saving for the Government's budget lines.
It is appropriate that the staff of the SCS should benefit from the additional holiday for which the St Andrew's Day BankHoliday (Scotland) Act 2007 provides, as is the position for other public servants.