Informed Scotland October 2021 – Reviews, reforms & climate change
Issue 95 includes key Covid-19 guidance up to and including 5 November.
October was a quieter month than usual for learning & skills – the slimmest edition of Informed Scotland since October 2019 is testimony to that.
Reviews and reforms are occupying minds across the landscape. Skills Development Scotland published research and white papers to inform its Career Review. The Scottish Government published an ‘implementation framework’ and further announcements for its school education reform. And published its response to the Scottish Funding Council’s Review of Tertiary Education & Research.
Other items worth drawing your attention to:
- A topical report by the COP26 Universities Network of 80+ UK universities and research centres on Mainstreaming Climate Change Education in UK Higher Education Institutions
- An interesting Poverty Alliance report for the Robertson Trust on mentoring and tutoring in Scotland, and their potential to contribute to reducing the poverty-related attainment gap
- A Strategy for Space in Scotland by the Scottish Government, Space Scotland and Scottish Space Academic Forum
- The Open University’s informative annual Business Barometer on skills shortages
- And the start of plans to merge three University of the Highlands & Islands colleges – Lews Castle, North Highland and West Highland – by January 2023.
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