Education
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Black History in Scotland’s Curriculum
14th July 2020 by John Swinney MSP
Deputy First Minister John Swinney The Scottish Government stands in solidarity with the world-wide anti-racism movement. Education has a key role to play in building a society which actively challenges racism, eliminates racial discrimination and advances equality. I have received many items of correspondence asking that more is done to ensure social inequality, racism and...
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Contact details for all social care departments in Scotland
14th May 2020 by richardclarke
We all have a role to play in keeping Scotland’s children safe from abuse and neglect during the Covid-19 pandemic. If you have any concerns that a child may be at risk of harm please contact your local social work department. If you think a child is in immediate danger please call Police Scotland on...
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Ensuring Scotland’s universities remain at the heart of Covid-19 recovery
11th May 2020 by richardclarke
Richard Lochhead, Minister for Further Education, Higher Education and Science Scotland’s universities and their research are considered to be among the very best in the world. Indeed for centuries, they have been acclaimed for genuinely ground-breaking discoveries across a raft of key areas, from medicine to engineering, economics to science, the environment, business and industry....
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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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