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"Education and nationalism: The discourse of education policy in Scotland." Discourse: Studies in the cultural politics of education 31.3 (2010): 335–350. Clark, Margaret, and Pamela Munn. Education in Scotland (Taylor & Francis, 1998) online. Munn, Pamela, et al. "Schools for the 21st century: the national debate on education in Scotland."
Threats of industrial action by the EIS evoke memories for many of the long-running teacher strikes of the 1980s [7] [8] During the 1984-86 industrial action almost 15 million pupil days were lost across Scotland. [9] It was a sustained campaign of industrial action in Scottish education in opposition to the Conservative Government.
As a result, secondary education was the major area of growth, particularly for girls. New qualifications were developed to cope with changing aspirations. In the 1980s the curriculum was reformed to take account of the whole range of abilities. Gender differences disappeared as girls' attainment caught up with boys in the early 1980s.
The 2022 Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) showed Scotland’s reading level was above OECD average. Scotland’s education study figures decline amid ‘profound’ Covid-19 ...
The website UK Schools & Colleges Database lists currently operating state (and some independent) schools by Local Education Authority and also links to websites of individual schools where available. Information on Private Schools in Scotland Key information and independent ratings on private Secondary Schools across Scotland.
1 August – The Education (Scotland) Act 1980 receives Royal Assent. 28 August – First clinically useful image of a patient's internal tissues using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is obtained using a full-body scanner built by a team led by John Mallard at the University of Aberdeen. [1]
In the 2022–23 academic year, 292,240 students studied at universities or institutes of higher education in Scotland, 228,005 of whom were full-time, 59.0% were female and 40.4% male. 59.5% of students were domiciled in Scotland, 11.5% from the rest of the United Kingdom, and the remaining 28.7% being international students (4.5% from the ...
After the Robbins Report of 1963 there was a rapid expansion in higher education in Scotland. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] By the end of the decade the number of Scottish Universities had doubled. [ 14 ] New universities included the University of Dundee , Strathclyde , Heriot-Watt , and Stirling .