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SQA Appeals Data – 2022
Over the last couple of days I’ve been working with The Herald to reveal the huge variations in appeal success rates between schools in Scotland. On Friday (18/2/23) we reported on the scale of the disparities between schools. Click here to read that. On Saturday (19/2/23) we looked at the…
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A contribution to the National Discussion on Education
The consultation for the National Discussion on Education closes tomorrow (5th December) What follows are thoughts in relation to the national discussion on education, and the sorts of reforms needed to achieve radical and long-lasting improvements in Scottish schooling. The Context of the ‘National Discussion’ First of all, I think…
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The School Starting Age
Free-to-read chapter: The School Starting Age from Class Rules: the truth about Scottish schools Changes to the school starting age now part of the mainstream conversation around Scottish schooling, and the idea is to be debated at the forthcoming SNP conference. As a result, I have decided to make this…
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Why – and how – I teach my students about the Rwandan Genocide
Originally written in April 2014 Today, Monday the 7th of April 2014, marks the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the Rwandan genocide, where up to a million men, women and children were slaughtered in just 100 days. As countless innocent people were hacked, beaten, stabbed, burned and shot across…
James McEnaney 