Category: Scotland
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“Sensitive” ScotGov documents cast new light on Ministers’ & SPADs’ FOI role
Newly released documents, obtained as a result of two appealed FOI requests, show that Ministers and Special Advisers have been deeply involved in the withholding of information from the public, sometimes despite the protests of civil servants – including those in the government’s own FOI Unit. As this is rather…
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James McEnaney on his newfound insights after Scottish Journey | The National
https://www.thenational.scot/news/16911022.james-mcenaney-on-his-newfound-insights-after-scottish-journey/
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The Need for Play Based Early Education | Bella Caledonia
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2018/09/13/the-need-for-play-based-early-education/
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A Scottish Journey: Travelling in Edwin Muir’s Footsteps | The Herald
https://www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/16605145.a-scottish-journey-travelling-in-edwin-muirs-footsteps/
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Podcast: What is school for? With Doaa Shabbir, Keri McGachy and James McEnaney | CommonSpace
https://www.commonspace.scot/articles/12990/podcast-what-school-doaa-shabbir-keri-mcgachy-and-james-mcenaney
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The SSLN can still create material gain for teachers | TESS
This is the full text of a recent article for the Times Education Supplement Scotland. The original is available here (£): https://www.tes.com/news/ssln-can-still-create-material-gain-teachers This year, for the first time since 2012, the Scottish government is not publishing the results of a Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy (SSLN). The original plan was…
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FOI victory reveals the full extent of Teach First’s Scottish lobbying | Blog
Last week, in an exclusive story with Severin Carrell and published by The Guardian, I revealed that Prince Charles has finally admitted to lobbying the Scottish government, and in particular former First Minister Alex Salmond, in an attempt to help Teach First expand their operations into Scotland’s education system. These…
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Tartan Teach First? A look inside the Scottish Government’s plans | Blog
Last week the Scottish Government finally released the tender documents for its ‘new route into teaching’. Ever since plans to tender for what looks like a fast track teaching programme were announced, questions have been asked about whether this will allow Teach First to realise its long-held ambitions of expanding…
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Australian Aboriginies move to block shipments of Scottish nuclear waste | The Herald
ABORIGINES in South Australia are fighting a plan to ship nuclear waste from Scotland amid fears it will be dumped on land regarded as culturally and spiritually sacred.
James McEnaney 