Reading Time: 4 minutesA look at the future of school exams and assessment in Scotland.
Category: Education
Steps toward tackling racism at college and university
Reading Time: 4 minutesLast week resources to support conversations about race in colleges and universities were launched by the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) in partnership with equality and
University research funding and student mobility post-Brexit
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis blog looks at the implications of the UK’s exit from the EU on university research funding and student mobility.
COVID-19: Guidance for students in Scotland -updated 1 October
Reading Time: 4 minutesOutbreaks of COVID-19 have been reported in student halls of residence across the country since students returned to campuses earlier this month. In a fast-moving
Positive progression: The future of college to university pathways
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis blog looks at college to university pathways and the role they may play post COVID-19
National Qualifications – estimating success: a response to Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Reading Time: 6 minutesThis blog looks at the cancellation of the 2020 exam diet and the method of certification the SQA has put in place for those qualifications.
Coronavirus (Scotland) Bill – SPICe Briefing
Reading Time: 32 minutesThis extended blogpost provides briefing for MSPs and other interested parties ahead of parliamentary consideration of the Coronavirus (Scotland) Bill on 1 April 2020.Â
RICs: improving Scottish Education through collaboration?
Reading Time: 8 minutesBlog looking at the development of education Regional Improvement Collaboratives.
The price of free tuition in Scotland
Reading Time: 9 minutesA blog reflecting on the debate about tuition fees in Scotland in the period since devolution.
20 years of scrutinising school education policy – a learning experience.
Reading Time: 7 minutesA look at the approach to education policy and resulting challenges for the Parliament.