[PDF] Top 20 SPICe Briefing: Education (Scotland) Bill

... medium education developed primarily as a result of parental ...the Bill would require a local authority to consider when deciding whether to provide Gaelic medium primary ...primary education, even ... See full document

... Background: The Education (Scotland) Act 1980 enables local authorities to pay grants for school clothing. The level of school clothing grants has been an issue for a number of years. A parliamentary petition in ... See full document

... previous SPICe briefing SB10-07: Barriers to Widening Access to Higher Education that is believed to have an impact on participation in HE is the admissions processes of Higher Education ... See full document

... the Bill did not anticipate significant financial cost in pursuing this provision or extension of activity already taking ...the Bill was relatively small and ... See full document

... Higher Education Governance (Scotland) Bill was introduced in the Scottish Parliament on 17 June 2015 by Angela Constance, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong ...The Education and ... See full document

... The Bill states that the process of selecting internal members involves election (for staff members) or nomination from among their own number (for trade union, student and alumni members) (Scottish Parliament, ... See full document

... The Bill would require provision of 600 hours of early learning and childcare defined in ...of education and ...both education and care rather than either education or care. The Bill ... See full document

... pre-school education are entitled to additional support for learning as are disabled children under three years of ...school education, pre- school education is inspected by HMIe, due to become ... See full document

... quality arrangements, Education Scotland are contracted to undertake independent reviews of college provision at least once every four years. Since 2008 there has been a focus on self- evaluation and reviews are ... See full document

... ―I do not in the slightest criticise Glasgow City Council's priorities. It has worked well with the Scottish Government on the 570 hours commitment 6 ; indeed, all local authorities have moved forward on that. The ... See full document

... “it should emerge within the next year. However as you mentioned the fact that it has not yet emerged has not prevented us from cracking on with the schools programme […] in previous times, it took five and a half years ... See full document

... school education setting when the child is in attendance", and it was acknowledged that systems for providing access to teachers ...Pre-school education centres were asked whether they received ... See full document

... the Bill is required to carry out an open recruitment process which involves the interview of potential candidates and a shortlisting process, it is estimated that up to four candidates might gain an interview at ... See full document

... Open and distance learning has long been understood to be learning where the learner and teacher are separated by timespace and/or distance. Since its beginnings in the 1800’s as print materials distributed via a postal ... See full document

... the Bill on the composition of governing bodies (section 4) and the composition of academic boards (section 10) raise any issues in relation to the European Convention on Human Rights (―the Convention‖) in ... See full document

... Bill is made contiguous with Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA), meaning categories of info the state nominally must refuse in the course of PAIA requests become a criminal offence (3-5 years) for any ... See full document

... higher education institutions; and to revise provision about the academic freedom of various persons carrying out activities at higher education and certain other ... See full document

... higher education sector in England which have been in place since ...Higher Education and Research Bill as providing ‘new universities’ and the promotion of competition and choice in the higher ... See full document

... Further Education Bill 2016-17 took place over ten sessions between 22 November and 6 December ...Further Education Commissioner also appeared before the ... See full document

... The Bill aims to establish a required minimum level of inclusivity, transparency and consistency across all ...the Bill includes a minimum requirement to have a chairing member of the governing body of an ... See full document