Education
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Rising to the challenge of educational equity: How is Scotland doing?
25th February 2020 by Education News Team
Guest Blog from Professor Chris Chapman, Senior Academic Advisor, Scottish Attainment Challenge Director, Policy Scotland, University of Glasgow Breaking the steadfast link between poverty and educational attainment is a wicked issue that has arguably become the singularly most important issue for education systems around the world. In February 2015 The Times Educational Supplement Scotland reported...
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Five years on with the Scottish Attainment Challenge (SAC) funding and what has changed?
24th February 2020 by Education News Team
Guest Blog from Carrie Lindsay, ADES President The introduction of funding that allowed a focus for investment on targeting the poverty-related attainment gap was a very welcome addition for Scottish education authorities. The three types of funding;...
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Early Learning and Childcare (ELC) Innovation Awards – Guest Blog from Children’s Minister Maree Todd
6th January 2020 by Maree Todd MSP
I often tell people that I have the best job in government, and I sincerely believe that I do. I can’t think of anything more important than trying to improve the life chances of our children and young people, and it’s something that I, along with the thousands of people working in the early learning...
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Down on the farm – guest blog from Royal Highland Education Trust
24th December 2019 by jackmatthews
Guest blog from Sara Smith, Learning and Development Co-ordinator at the Royal Highland Education Trust Throughout the year, come rain or shine, farmers open their gates to provide young people with the opportunity to find out about food production. The charity The Royal Highland Education Trust (RHET) works with farmers and growers across Scotland to...
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Developing the Young Workforce wins silver Future Policy Award
16th October 2019 by jackmatthews
Developing the Young Workforce has been recognised with an international policy award. On Friday 11 October 2019, the World Future Council revealed that Developing the Young Workforce (DYW) was among the policies selected to receive a silver award in what it dubs ‘the Oscar for best policies’ for empowering youth at a ceremony in Geneva...
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Listening and acting to tackle the climate crisis together – Climate Week 2019
9th October 2019 by John Swinney MSP
Climate Week 2019 brings into focus the defining challenge of our times – tackling the global climate emergency – with conversations taking place across Scotland on the role we all have to play. Listening is vital to productive conversation, and as a government we have been listening to the growing number of voices from the...
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Two top physics students presented with Higgs Prize
4th October 2019 by jackmatthews
Agnijo Banerjee and Jane Ambler were awarded the 2018 Higgs Prize for achieving the top scores in the 2018 Advanced Higher physics exam. The prize is named after Edinburgh-based Nobel prize winner Professor Peter Higgs CH, whose work has advanced our understanding of how the particles that make up the world around us are held...
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Results Day – finding support and celebrating success
5th August 2019 by Education News Team
Over the past few weeks, we have been celebrating the broad successes of young people in the Senior Phase, from S4-S6, on social media. The range of awards, qualifications and progression routes at all Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) levels available from S4-S6 is vast, coupled with the opportunity to experience learning opportunities through...
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Celebrating all learner journeys – #MyLearnerJourney
22nd July 2019 by John Swinney MSP
A young person’s experience at school can help them discover what they are passionate about so they can find a pathway to a career in which they can flourish. Curriculum for Excellence is designed to help young people become successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens and effective contributors. But that doesn’t mean the same thing...
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Richard Lochhead, Minister for Further Education, Higher Education and Science
10th July 2019 by Education News Team
For the tens of thousands of final year students who have recently graduated across Scotland, it’s been a special time. I remember it well. Twenty-five years ago I was celebrating with friends and family at my graduation from the University of Stirling and can vividly recall the mixture of relief, pride, excitement and a little...
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