Why is Scottish education failing to deliver the long-promised pupil excellence and closure of the attainment gap in schools after two decades of much-vaunted policy-making and legislation? Two leading experts re-examine the roots of the problem in what was once ’the jewel in the British educational crown’. Below, Lindsay Paterson explores the links between the Curriculum for … [Read more...] about Lost opportunities to last a lifetime 1
Triumph of rhetoric over reality
Education was always destined to be at the heart of the Scottish Parliament’s activities.Widely believed to be one of the three pillars of Scotland’s national identity in the Union, it had, by 1999, outlasted the dwindling importance of the church and was now directly affecting far more people than the law. With three quarters of young people persevering to the … [Read more...] about Triumph of rhetoric over reality