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In June 2017, the Scottish Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills, John Swinney, announced plans to reform the General Teaching Council for Scotland, bringing it together with other professional development bodies in a new Education Workforce Council for Scotland, similar to the Education Workforce Council in Wales. [12]
The Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association (SSTA) is Scotland's second largest teachers' union. It was created to focus on secondary education issues in reaction to the perception of national influence exercised by the primary education sector. The SSTA is affiliated to the STUC [3] and Education International. [4]
Catherine Helen Spence (31 October 1825 – 3 April 1910) was a Scottish-born Australian author, teacher, journalist, politician, leading suffragist, and Georgist. [1] Spence was also a minister of religion and social worker, and supporter of electoral proportional representation . [ 2 ]
As the third-largest ethnic group in Canada and amongst the first Europeans to settle in the country, Scottish people have made a large impact on Canadian culture since colonial times. According to the 2016 Census of Canada , the number of Canadians claiming full or partial Scottish descent is 4,799,010, [ 3 ] or 13.93% of the nation's total ...
Scottish people have a long history in Canada, dating back several centuries. Many towns, rivers and mountains have been named in honour of Scottish explorers and traders such as Mackenzie Bay and the major city of Calgary, Alberta, is named after a Scottish beach. Most notably, the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia is Latin for New Scotland ...
Henry Morgan (1819–1893), built the first department store in Canada; Donald Morrow (1908-1995), Ontario politician, soldier and teacher; Farley Mowat (1921-2014), author, Scottish ancestry; Oliver Mowat (1820-1903), third Premier of Ontario; Alice Munro, Nobel laureate author and short story writer; George Murdoch (1850-1910), first mayor of ...
She is on the Board of the Jam Factory, [16] and TechInSA and in 2017 was made the Presiding Member of The South Australian Teachers Registration Board. [citation needed] In the 2013 Australia Day Honours List, Lomax-Smith was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to the Parliament and the community of South ...
Edward Stirling (c. 1808 – 2 February 1873) was an early settler of South Australia. He established several pastoral properties and was a co-founder of what became Elders Limited, also serving two terms in the South Australian Legislative Council.