OPINION: It’s time to Finnish the progressive experiment
Former government adviser and education expert Dr Stephen Curran writes about the Scots’ potentially making children start school a year later and why this is a bad idea – with evidence from Finland… Having seen its once-lauded educational standards eroded by progressive teaching methods, Scotland could soon see them fall even further. A resolution to […]
Scottish colleges launch funded online courses for social care
Scotland’s colleges have responded to the recruitment crisis facing social care by launching Introduction to a Career in Social Care – an online course designed to bring more trained candidates into this area of work at a time when the country faces a social care crisis caused by the skills gap and worsened by the […]
Education spending ‘down £400m’ in Scotland
Research commissioned by Labour and conducted by the Scottish Parliament Information Centre has highlighted cuts of more than £400 million in education funding since 2010. Specifically, it says local authority education spend fell from £5.3 billion in 2009/10 to £4.9 billion in 2017/18, equivalent to a 7.5 per cent fall. While the government says the latest […]