Reading Time: 32 minutes This extended blogpost provides briefing for MSPs and other interested parties ahead of parliamentary consideration of the Coronavirus (Scotland) Bill on 1 April 2020.
Category: Education
RICs: improving Scottish Education through collaboration?
Reading Time: 8 minutes Blog looking at the development of education Regional Improvement Collaboratives.
The price of free tuition in Scotland
Reading Time: 9 minutes A blog reflecting on the debate about tuition fees in Scotland in the period since devolution.
20 years of scrutinising school education policy – a learning experience.
Reading Time: 7 minutes A look at the approach to education policy and resulting challenges for the Parliament.
Guest blog – Levelling the Playing Field: young women’s relationship with sport and physical activity
Reading Time: 6 minutes The Young Women Lead Committee share highlights from their report on young women’s relationship with sport and physical activity.
SPICe FAQ – Higher Education student funding in Scotland
Reading Time: 2 minutes SPICe regularly receives enquiries from MSPs and their staff on behalf of constituents looking for information on funding for undergraduate or postgraduate studies. This blog
Guest Blog – The National Performance Framework
Reading Time: 4 minutes As with all guest blogs, what follows are the views of the author, Jennifer Wallace, Head of Policy at the Carnegie UK Trust, and not those
Drop-out and returns: UK students at Scottish universities
Reading Time: 4 minutes This is the second blog about students dropping out of university. The first blog considered statistics published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) on
Drop-out rates: UK students at Scottish universities
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) publishes annual statistics on the non-continuation (“drop-out”) rate among first degree students at higher education institutions (HEIs) across the