It was a busy month for learning & skills, including the start of Education Scotland’s Curriculum Improvement Cycle – a review of all curricular areas, described as ‘evolving’ Curriculum for Excellence, not ‘ripping it up’. Recruitment is underway for practitioners to get involved in various ways. Reports worth drawing your attention to this month: October […]
Aside from the Scottish Government’s new programme for the year, there were three particularly hot topics last month: The Scottish Government’s long awaited and ‘pragmatic’ response to the Independent Review of Qualifications & Assessment, detailing the changes it has accepted – and those it’s rejected, with reactions ranging from a ‘cautious welcome’ to ‘disappointment’. Green […]
One of the key publications over the summer was Learning: For all. For life., the final report of the Independent Review of Community Learning & Development led by Kate Still. To help subscribers, Informed 123 included the report’s 20 recommendations in an Annex. But one of the main talking points was behaviour in schools, with the Scottish […]
The 12th Informed Scotland Organisations & People Special has just been published to coincide with the start of the 2024–25 academic session. This annual snapshot of an active, ever-changing landscape helps Informed subscribers quickly locate the key learning & skills organisations and make sense of where they fit into the bigger picture. They find it a useful […]
Despite the run up to the General Election there was still a lot happening in learning & skills in Scotland in June. There were three legislation announcements – all with consultations over the summer: Meanwhile, across the learning & skills landscape, AI and generative AI continue to be a major focus for discussion and development, […]
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May was a much busier month for learning & skills in Scotland. The latest digest is packed with reports, announcements and guidance of interest across the landscape, including: This edition marks Informed Scotland’s 12th anniversary It’s always revealing to recall what was shaping the learning & skills landscape in May 2012, with an eye to […]
With political uncertainty across the UK, plus funding challenges and the Easter break, April was the quietest month for a while for learning and skills. The impact of financial pressures can be seen right across the landscape, most clearly in some of the hard decisions taken recently. Such as removing the Upskilling Fund for universities, […]
Another month with no major learning & skills announcements. Normally this would be seen as welcome news by many who value the space to get on with the task at hand. However, the ‘lull’ in decision-making on school education reform in particular is raising tensions and anticipation, and creating new challenges. As two of education’s […]
Although there were no major learning & skills developments, it was the busiest February for a while. Three Scottish Government items are worth highlighting… …as are three interesting reports from three ‘futures’ projects… …and three new items on the roasting hot topic of AI: Three more interesting things: The latter is one example of items […]