This article examines the policy construction of leadership at all levels in Scottish education. In the current reforms 'leadership at all levels' is being used to mobilise support around changes to the role of
Headteachers in Scotland were also most likely to report truancy as a problem when compared with the other three home nations: England, Northern Ireland and Wales. Education secretary John Swinney said other data, published by the Scottish government, suggested there had been an improvement in sch...
SVQ stands for Scottish Vocational Qualification. It's a work-based qualification you can take to show that you can do the job well and to the national industry standards. Unlike other higher education qualifications, the SVQ is completed outside of the classroom, with observations from assessor...
to inform them that functional decline is malleable and not inevitable purely by virtue of chronological age and provide education and support to prevent or reverse functional decline and collaborate around strategic planning and commissioning to offer different options that support an optimum LifeCurve...
A site currently promoting awareness and debate of how the poorest students in Scotland face the highest government debt: "essential reading for a critical commentary on the funding of Scottish higher education" Wonkhe
(2022)set out to do by evaluating the effects of white egret orchid’s(Habenaria radiata) fringed flowers on their nocturnal pollinators, the hawk-mothsTheretra japonicaandT. nessus. The researchers did a simple operation: they removed the fringes of some flowers and compared the results with ...
To investigate the relationship between body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC) or waist–hip ratio (WHR) and all-cause mortality or cause-specific mortality. Cross-sectional surveys linked to hospital admissions and death records. In total, 20
Langlands was a class act with several very good times to his name but for a check on how Seton compared to contemporary half milers we can look at other SAAA 880 yards champions: in 1891 R Mitchell won in 2:03.4; in 1892 it was again Mitchell in 2:05.4, in 1893 W Malcolm in ...
Can higher education in Scotland and England be compared? The difference in the countries’ approaches to fee policy is familiar, but what about how well each system does in addressing socio-economic inequality? Last month I co-authored areport for the Sutton Trust, which considered Scotland’s...
. Scottish women are no more likely than those in England to remain childless and are in fact more likely to give birth to their first child when they are younger than English women. Half of Scottish women have a first birth before 27.42 years, compared with 28.08 years for English women....