Informed Scotland February 2020 – Strategies, guidance, reviews & inquiries
For a short(ish) month there was plenty happening, with numerous reports, strategies and announcements across the landscape.
- Three new national strategies were published: a seminal one on career education & guidance, one on culture with much to say about learning & skills, and one on the environment with surprisingly little relevant content
- A new review of Curriculum for Excellence is to be undertaken by the OECD
- Scottish Parliament’s Education & Skills Committee published analysis of a survey for its inquiry into recruiting & training new teachers; and the Equalities & Human Rights Committee launched a new inquiry into racial equality, employment & skills
- Education Scotland published Being me, updated national practice guidance for early years
- A new Gender Equality Taskforce in Education & Learning held its first meeting
- Two NHS Health Scotland evidence reviews were published on supporting teachers’ and children’s mental health and wellbeing.
Major reports worth exploring in detail include:
- The Cumberford-Little Report on the economic impact of colleges
- City & Guilds’ Missing Millions on ‘the untapped potential’ of working age people in the UK
- Demos’s The Learning Curve on how the UK is harnessing the potential of online learning
- Jisc’s Future of Assessment on how universities and colleges could use technology to transform assessment
- The Open University’s Leading in a Digital Age survey of business leaders on the impact of digital training.
Our favourite new word of the month was ‘microcredentials’ – although perhaps the term is familiar to others? Check out the new microcredentials courses on the FutureLearn website, including one for teachers on mental health in the curriculum.
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