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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.