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Their purpose is to postpone further the introduction of compulsory competitive tendering for defined activities, which will be achieved by amending the principal order and regulations to extend the exemption end and introduction dates.
Possibly research—referring to academic sources in other countries—would be useful to find out the thinking behind standing orders, in terms of precedent or activity. Are we all agreed on that? All right.
Quite simply, unless the SNP is able to get around the problem of having to have the Scottish Executive guarantee the form of spend that it wants, its proposal will remain flawed and unworkable.
One of the pressures that we are putting on the university sector because we are recruiting so many teachers is the difficulty—although the universities have solved the problem—of getting enough student placements. We are mindful of the impact that that has on schools.