Education
Upper-secondary education student assessment in Scotland: A comparative perspective
Author / Creator: Gordon Stobart
Media type: Report
Date published: 2021
Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) is a pioneering example of 21st century curriculum reform.
Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence : Into the Future
Author / Creator: Beatriz Pont
Media type: Report
Date published: 2021
Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence continues to be a bold and widely supported initiative, and its design offers the flexibility needed to improve student learning further
Education - qualifications and assessment review: consultation - Gaelic
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: Consultation paper
Date published: 2022
Gaelic translation of the consultation on the options for change as part of Professor Hayward's independent review of the future of qualifications and assessment
Review of the Future of Qualifications and Assessment: Consultation on Options For Change
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: Consultation paper
Date published: 2022
There is a need to reform qualifications and assessments.
Gender equality in education and learning: Children's Parliament report
Author / Creator: Scottish Youth Parliament
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
The Theory of Change will help to end systemic gender inequality in education and learning.
Evaluation Strategy for the Attainment Scotland Fund 2022-2026
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
use education to improve outcomes for children and young people impacted by poverty with a focus on tackling the poverty-related attainment gap to deliver on the Scottish Government’s vision of equity and excellence in education
Scottish Education in the Twentieth Century
Author / Creator: Lindsay Paterson
Media type: Book
Date published: 2003
How can democracy be reconciled with the necessity of selection. Selection of culture in the maintenance of excellence, and selection of people, allocating them to occupations while also preparing them for life as equal citizens in the common culture of the community?
The School Starting Age
Author / Creator: James McEnaney
Media type: Article
Date published: 2022
Changes to the school starting age now part of the mainstream conversation around Scottish schooling
Why We Need a Kindergarten Stage
Author / Creator: Sue Palmer
Media type: Opinion
Date published: 2022
The case for kindergarden and a 6 year old start to formal schooling in Scotland.
Concerns raised over Scottish Government’s £5m grants to Chinese Confucius hubs
Author / Creator: Billy Briggs
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
Grants of £5millon have been given to the Confucius Institute for Scotland’s Schools (CISS) which is based at Strathclyde University and has 22 learning hubs in schools to promote Chinese languages and culture.
Education for Transformation: Rethinking education in a time of ecological and social crisis
Author / Creator: Mike Langdon
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published:
It is only by mainlining the adoption of degrowth education that Scotland can begin to move to systems of educational practice that begin to address the multiple emergencies we face
Play is the Way: Child development, early years and the future of Scottish education
Author / Creator: Sue Palme
Media type: Book
Date published: 2021
A timely book on early years and education in Scotland, filled with a passion for change and wanting the best for our children. It contains numerous suggestions for how to close the ‘attainment gap’ and give those children currently failed by our education system a better chance in early life.
School spending per pupil highest in Scotland, lowest in Northern Ireland
Author / Creator: Luke Sibieta
Media type: Assessment report
Date published:
In the current year (2021–22), core school spending per pupil is expected to be highest in Scotland (over £7,500) compared to England (£6,700) and Wales (£6,600), and lowest in Northern Ireland (£6,400).
Class Rules: the truth about Scottish schools: a review
Author / Creator: Sue Palmer
Media type: News Item
Date published:
A supportive review of the book "Class Rules: the truth about Scottish schools"
Class Rules: the Truth about Scottish Schools
Author / Creator: James McEnaney
Date published: 2021
Class Rules makes the key issues about Scotland's education system accessible to all. He delves into the Curriculum for Excellence. He interrogates the rhetoric around closing the 'attainment gap' between the richest and poorest pupils. And he considers the impact of the global Covid-19 pandemic. This book looks to the future to ask what changes can be made to improve the system for young people across the country.
Populism, democracy and a pedagogy of renewal
Author / Creator: Margaret Petrie
Media type: Academic Paper
Date published:
The implications of populism for adult education aimed at defending and extending democratic life. The conflation of agonistic democracy with left populism is questioned. We consider how a focus on education might help to ground their theory and clarify popppulism's ambiguities.
An Equal Start: A plan for equality in early learning and care in Scotland
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: January 2016
This report is a plan for delivering change through a National Childcare Service in public provision, as a replacement for the fragmented, haphazard and unequal nature of the childcare sector at present. The report provides a comprehensive, costed strategy for achieving this transformation.