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Education is too ‘political’ in Scotland, OECD report author warns – The Scotsman
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Speaking at the Scottish Parliament’s education committee on Wednesday, the report’s co-author Dr Beatriz Pont warned Scotland needed to “drop the politics” and focus on policy to move forward.
The authors of the report, published in June, also told MSPs the Scottish National Standardised Assessments (SNSA) were “not the most appropriate system monitoring mechanism” for measuring the success of Curriculum for Excellence (CfE)
The tests, introduced in 2017, led to pupils experiencing high-stakes tests in primary one, four, seven and in S3 in secondary school. They are opposed by all of Scotland’s teaching unions, as well as by parents groups.
The report, Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence Into the Future, recommended scrapping the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) and reforming Education Scotland.
The exams body is to be broken up and replaced, with pupils, parents and teachers to be consulted on changes, while responsibility for school inspections will be split off to a new independent system.
Dr Pont said: “We’re providing recommendations to have to consolidate the structures to make your CfE less political and more policy oriented.
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Education experts say Curriculum for Excellence must be ‘radically simplified’ – Aberdeen Evening Express
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The Commission for School Reform said the implementation guidance around CfE ran to 20,000 pages and placed too heavy a burden on teachers.
In June, a report into CfE from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said CfE had suffered from failures of implementation.
Chaired by Dr Keir Bloomer, one of the architects of CfE, the Commission on School Reform has published a paper examining the OECD report.
Dr Bloomer’s group stressed the importance of the acquisition of knowledge as well as skills in education.
It called on the Government to “radically simplify” the implementation of CfE.
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Alarm as one in eight Scots teachers in temporary jobs, according to new figures – The Sun
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ONE in eight Scots teachers is now in temporary posts, new figures reveal.
Some 6,259 out of 52,672 teachers were not on full-time contracts in 2020, as the 12 per cent tally was up from eight per cent reported in 2006.
Ministers faced calls to end the “damaging overuse” of “zero-hours” supply contracts after the stats emerged in a parly written question by Tory MSP Stephen Kerr.
He said: “It’s vital that young people have permanent teachers.
“We should not be asking teachers to plug gaps in our system by taking temporary jobs, leaving them unable to plan long term or get a mortgage.
Nicola Sturgeon has ‘clearly failed’ on education claims author – The Scotsman
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The author of a new book investigating the state of Scottish education says the First Minister has failed on her record.
Edinburgh teachers leader warns cash for extra staff ‘not nearly enough’ for Covid recovery and closing attainment gap – Edinburgh Evening News
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SNP let Scottish children down! Nicola Sturgeon skewered for ‘total lack of leadership’ – Daily Express
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