This sense of uplift and hope was compounded by the appearance of local schoolgirls, which UCU posted support for, speaking at the conference panel on lad and rape culture in education settings. This was not only a topic I hold dear as it was the substance of my PhD, but I felt an im...
How often do pupils skip school? More than ever, it would seem. Overall, unauthorised absences increased from 1.3 per cent of half-days in 2005-06 to 2.4 per cent last year. The bulk of last year’s unauthorised absences were explained by unauthorised holidays (0.7 per cent of half-days...
She was the first woman to have been Rector of the University of Edinburgh and is the first female chair of the board of governors at Glasgow School of Art. Birthplace: East Kilbride, Scotland Neil Forsyth Age: 47 Neil Forsyth (born 1978 Dundee, Scotland) is a Scottish author, t...
Heating system oversizing and low-temperature readiness of a pre-1919 school in Scotland 2024, Energy and Buildings Citation Excerpt : Public building stock are mainly constituted of education buildings (82 % in Scotland). The largest group of buildings is the post-war group (1946–1979) which...
be explained away by epistemic considerations, and the historical context suggests that Shepherd would have taken talk of qualities or powers to imply that such qualities or powers are grounded in their objects, we ought to adopt the intrinsic-constitutions interpretation instead. To support that ...
That’s the first – I went there when I was fifteen, when I left school. And it’s – he was complaining to his boss in Inverness that he never got an opportunity to go to the islands at all. And he … Mr Forsyth said to him, “Well next time you can go to the islands. ...
In this study, the dynamics of rent growth and expected returns are explained in Scotland through a state-space present value approach, which is used in stock prices by Binsbergen and Koijen (2010), Ma and Wohar (2014), Rambaccussing and Power (2018a, b). Using this approach, discount...
the full significance of the change required in order to meet the difficulties of the empirical theory that we regard his system as the only sequel to that of Hume. The writers of the Scottish school, Reid in particu-lar, did undoubtedly indicate some of the weaknesses in Hume’s ...
(Cervus elaphus) populations: a mitochondrial survey S Pe´rez-Espona1,2, FJ Pe´rez-Barber´ıa2, WP Goodall-Copestake3, CD Jiggins1,4, IJ Gordon5 and JM Pemberton1 1Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; 2The ...
University entrance straight from school in Scotland has for many years been based largely on Highers, the exam taken at the end of 5th year. There’s been a sixth year in the system for decades, but it’s only relatively recently that staying on into 6th year before going to university...