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Parental choice and education policy The 1981 Education (Scotland) Act gave parents the statutory right to request places in schools outside their designated attendance areas and imposed greater restrictions on the powers of local education authorities. Proponents of school... JD Willms - Edinburgh Un...
The purpose of this research is to undertake a comparative analysis of policy and practice in initial teacher education (ITE) in two parts of the United Kingdom. Although the education systems of England and Scotland have been characterised as experiencing considerable autonomy since the Act of Uni...
The Equity Group Association from Scotland believes that inclusive education recognizes that children have equal rights and equal value. This should be a fundamental starting point for education and social policy in modern society. Interestingly, the concept of inclusive education in Turkey, as the ...
The report: explores the nature of the educational attainment gap between children from higher and lower-income households in Scotland, and its consequences; examines the impact of recent policy and practical interventions that have been made in Scotland; summarises evidence about what educators can ...
This is similar to theeducation system in Scotland. Most students enter secondary school aged 12-13 and complete theirLeaving Certificate Examinationaged 17-19. [ The documentRules and Programme for Secondary Schoolspublished by the Department of Education and Science sets out the minimum standards ...
language plays an important role also in the transmission of culture through the literary canons and knowledge base sanctioned by educational policy. As such, it has potenthegemonic cultural value. In having the potential to provide the linguistic skills and knowledge that underpin democratic society ...
In the United Kingdom, progressive devolution of state power from London has meant that Scotland and Wales now have national autonomy in education matters. In a dramatic reversal of policy, both of these "home" countries have in the past four years dismantled the heavily test-oriented schooling...
Scholars of politics and education from England, Canada, and Scotland explore how the two realms do and should impact each other. Their topics include reproductive and remedial citizen education, two dilemmas of citizenship education in pluralist societies, multiculturalism, gender, the political status...