SCOT recognises the significant local challenges and their roots in the Scottish, UK and global context. Health systems across the globe continue to attempt to recovery from a once in a century event. SCOT welcomes the openness of the Scottish Government in its engagement with the Scottish Orthopa...
And more than halfsay they often worry that maths classes will be difficult, according to data collected through the 2022 Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa). The figures, obtained byTes Scotland, also show that students are more tense, nervous and worried about maths than they ...
The Scottish government has announced a new youth guarantee, which will promise every young person aged between 16 and 24 a place inat college, university or in work. The £60 million guarantee was announced as part of today’s programme for government, and will increase opportunities to acce...
RJP and AJH were funded by the Scottish Government's Strategic Research Programme. We want to thank G. Matt Davies and Andy Taylor for their valuable comments on the manuscript. Appendix A. Supplementary data Download: Download Word document (2MB) Supplementary material...
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), run by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), is the largest regular investigation of school students' attainment globally. It has been conducted usually every three years since 2006, measuring attainment ...
The Scottish government has promised an extra £13.6m to boost GP recruitment in the current financial year - and warned it was 'completely unacceptable' for practices to bear the brunt of higher employer national insurance costs from April....
Scottish Games Week is being delivered by theScottish Games Network Ltd. Scottish Games Week is supported by the Scottish Government’s Ecosystem Fund, delivered as part of its Scottish Technology Ecosystem Review (STER) programme. CONTACTS:
Following the passage of the Gender Recognition Reform Bill in the Scottish Parliament in December 2022, the UK government announced on 16 January 2023 their intention to utilise powers in the Scotland Act to block the bill from receiving royal assent. UCU and other trade unions along with the ...
Homelessness is a growing crisis in Scotland, with over 40,000 applications for assistance made in 2022-23, the highest in over a decade. In May 2024, the Scottish Government declared a housing emergency, responding to the stark need for more affordable and safe housing. At the fo...
Setting out his first programme for government in the Scottish Parliament yesterday, Mr Swinney said his government’s goal was “not just to keep some children out of poverty, or only to make child poverty less acute” but to “lift every child in Scotland who is in poverty out of it”...