The Scottish Parliament 2016 election will have taken place by the time we publish the April edition of Informed Scotland – too late to provide subscribers with our usual pre-election selection of relevant links. We’ve therefore published a very brief ‘Election Extra’. It contains links to some of the manifestos and resources focusing on or […]
The third annual Informed Scotland Organisations & People Special has just been published to coincide with the start of the 2015–16 academic session. It provides a snapshot of an ever-changing landscape. Subscribers find it a useful directory of the main bodies and institutions operating across business, education, community & adult learning, government and wider society, including: Sector-specific skills […]
We’re excited to publish an Informed Scotland Innovation Special. It was commissioned by College Development Network to support their Emporium of Dangerous Ideas 2015. The Emporium is ‘a future-orientated education festival that aims to re-establish the importance of dangerous ideas as agents of change in education – to shift the axis of what is possible!’ […]
We’re delighted to publish an Informed Scotland Technologies at Work Special. It was commissioned by Education Scotland to support the publication of their report, Building Society: Young people’s experiences and outcomes in the technologies, launched on 9 March 2015. At the launch in March, Bill Maxwell, Chief Executive of Education Scotland said, ‘We want our […]
An Informed Scotland Higher Attainment, Wider Access Special is being published to coincide with our participation in the MacKay Hannah Poverty & Attainment in Education Conference on 11 December. In the Special, the conference chair, education consultant David Cameron states, ‘This needs to be more than a conference, it needs to be a step towards […]