Time to 'stop pretending' about problems in Scots schools
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John Swinney blames virus for delaying education review until after Holyrood election
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Curriculum for Excellence review is postponed
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John Swinney: ‘Tell us your lived experience of CfE’
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John Swinney launches major audit of Curriculum for Excellence
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Progressive education is leading Scotland into crisis
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Swinney: Review about curriculum, not qualifications
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Scotland: SNP yes-men are no help to failing schools | Magnus Linklater
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Why Parliament was right to want a curriculum review
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Scotland: Head accuses ministers of hiding truth on education
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Nicola Sturgeon admits disappointments in education survey
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Nicola Sturgeon finally admits Scottish schools' science and maths performance 'not good enough' as full extent of decline exposed
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Sturgeon 'not denying' challenge to improve education
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Middle-class pupils paying the price for SNP school reforms, expert warns
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John Swinney defends Scottish education amid dip in science and maths performance
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John Swinney accused of behaving like an ‘old hippie’
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John Swinney: The evidence that shows Scottish education’s critics are playing politics
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  • Nov 22, 2019
No change in direction for education, vows Swinney
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  • Nov 18, 2019
Study to decide whether Curriculum for Excellence harms pupils
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Swinney hits out at ‘culture of negativity’
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Scotland: Academics criticise professor over ‘dubious research’ in his Curriculum for Excellence study
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  • Nov 14, 2019
What does data really say about Scotland's curriculum?
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Don’t let SNP mislead you about the state of Scottish education
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  • Nov 12, 2019
The SNP’s blinkered approach to Scotland’s education crisis is unsustainable
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Nicola Sturgeon accused of 'mantra of denial' over decline of subject choice in schools
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Scotland: Ministers admit curriculum failures as grade slump hits disadvantaged
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Claims about improving attainment 'not fully accurate'
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John Swinney and Nicola Sturgeon 'misled parliament' over school subject choice cut
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Attainment gap between rich and poor 'has widened in Scotland's schools under new curriculum'
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What is Curriculum for Excellence?
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  • Oct 30, 2019
Keep calm and carry on, say government advisers
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  • Sep 24, 2019
Secondary Scottish education must be reviewed, MSPs say
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What will the 'refreshed narrative' of CfE achieve?
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  • Sep 11, 2019
Be wary of unjustified attacks on Scottish education
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Scotland: Don’t judge Curriculum for Excellence on a single year, say exam bosses
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Judge Curriculum for Excellence on whole senior phase, SQA boss tells MSPs
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Scottish pupils’ study choices expanding, not narrowing, say education bosses
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  • May 15, 2019
What is Curriculum for Excellence – and why do the Welsh love it?
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Scotland: Delivery of Curriculum for Excellence to be reviewed by MSPs
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Scotland: Curriculum for Excellence blamed for drop in exams pupils can sit
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  • Apr 23, 2019
‘Our pupils are the triumph of Scottish education’
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Exam passes by Scottish S4 pupils drop 'at fastest rate since records started in 1965'
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Scotland: Good intentions won’t help save our schools
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Schools in Finland set to learn from Scotland's under fire curriculum
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Scotland: Curriculum change needs a different school of thought
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Pupils facing ‘postcode lottery’ as curriculum changes harm university or job chances
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Scotland: The Curriculum for Excellence is dead; now we need to clarify our aims
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Analysis: Renewed focus on exams raises likelihood of ‘teaching to the test’
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Scotland: SNP schools reform plan ‘no better than the system it will replace’
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  • Jan 24, 2018
In Britain’s battle over school curriculum, Celtic nations have got it right
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  • Jan 19, 2018
Ruth Davidson: Time to end the chaos in the classroom
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  • Jan 10, 2018
Time to ‘reset’ curriculum for excellence, say Scots Tories
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  • Jan 9, 2018
One fifth of pupils achieving National 4 after failing more advanced exams
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  • Jan 9, 2018
Call for Scotland’s school curriculum to be ‘reset’
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Scottish Conservatives call for SNP to 'get a grip' on curriculum
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  • Jan 9, 2018
Scotland: Tories urge relaunch of curriculum
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Staff driving education reform don’t believe they can deliver
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Poorer pupils "falling behind" wealthier classmates as they get older
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  • Dec 13, 2017
Scotland: Confused teachers struggle to put curriculum into practice
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  • Nov 30, 2017
Scotland: Pupils switch to private schools over subject limits
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  • Sep 22, 2017
Swinney misses ‘golden opportunity’ to reform education crisis in Scotland
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  • Sep 20, 2017
John Swinney to promise teachers ‘more freedom’
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John Swinney vows to press on with controversial curriculum reforms
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  • Sep 20, 2017
Union backs teacher’s ‘utterly failing’ letter to Nicola Sturgeon
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  • Sep 18, 2017
Scottish teacher writes furious open letter to Nicola Sturgeon
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  • Sep 18, 2017
Scotland: Businesses to set own tests after confusion over National 4 exams
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  • Sep 14, 2017
Programme for government: Education remains number one priority
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  • Sep 5, 2017
Inspection of secondary schools at lowest level for a decade
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  • Sep 5, 2017
Scottish government’s curriculum for excellence will widen inequality, says Lindsay Paterson
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  • Sep 4, 2017
SNP flagship curriculum could be 'disastrous' for schools, warns expert
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Leader comment: Follow through needed on school reforms
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  • Jul 24, 2017
Reading standards in Scotland falling behind UK, study warns
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Gap between schools over Higher choices is ‘alarming’
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  • Jul 13, 2017
Scotland: Curriculum for Excellence fears add to surge in home schooling
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  • Jul 10, 2017
Nicola Sturgeon underminded by her own poverty tsar over university inequality
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  • Jul 3, 2017
Take note of vital contribution music, art and drama make to society
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Nothing will change in Scottish education until curriculum is improved
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  • Jun 16, 2017
Education reforms a step in right direction
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  • Jun 15, 2017
Teacher workload said to be worse since John Swinney’s pledge to staff
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  • Jun 13, 2017
Heriot’s head attacks Scottish curriculum for failure
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  • Jun 13, 2017
Call for Holocaust education to be mandatory in Scottish schools
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  • Jun 12, 2017
Voters blame SNP for education crisis in Scottish schools, exclusive new poll reveals
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  • Jun 4, 2017
Scottish schools will improve within 4 years, SNP promises
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  • Jun 2, 2017
Sturgeon savaged over ‘disastrous’ record on Scottish schools ahead of General Election
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Private finance legacy frustrates efforts to reform Scottish curriculum
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  • May 26, 2017
Stress of being a headteacher 'puts off women'
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  • May 25, 2017
“Moratorium on education changes” plea - SSTA teaching union
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  • May 19, 2017
Concerns over scrapping of ‘disturbing’ literacy and numeracy survey
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  • May 17, 2017
Sturgeon admits curriculum’s literacy and numeracy failures
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  • May 15, 2017
Sturgeon admits failures in her education policies
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  • May 15, 2017
Flaws raise doubts over CfE’s suitability
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  • May 14, 2017
The Global Search for Education: Meet the Ministers – from Scotland – John Swinney
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  • May 12, 2017
Swinney under attack over ‘shameful’ literacy report
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  • May 9, 2017
Teachers call for an end to ‘political interference’
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Research on “what works” to close school attainment gap
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  • Apr 18, 2017
Scott Macnab: Lessons to be learned on education
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  • Mar 29, 2017
May v Sturgeon: Scottish education swept up in political war of words
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  • Mar 21, 2017
Scottish schools to be warned over new danger of pupils leaving with no qualifications
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  • Mar 21, 2017
Schools inspectorate under fire after sending staff on 79 foreign trips
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  • Mar 16, 2017
Extra time in schools for 'poor children' would 'cut inequality’
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  • Jan 30, 2017
Curriculum board review call issued by committee of MSPs
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  • Jan 26, 2017
Cuts forcing schools to axe language and science exams
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  • Jan 19, 2017
20,000 pages of advice for teachers largely necessary, says education chief
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  • Jan 18, 2017
No talking in class – it’s time to listen to teachers
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Swinney: teachers praise my reforms
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  • Dec 22, 2016
John Swinney defends cuts to education reform fund
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  • Dec 21, 2016
Scottish exams watchdog has funding stream halved
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  • Dec 21, 2016
Curriculum for Excellence budget cuts justified, insists John Swinney
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  • Dec 21, 2016
‘Stealth’ cuts harm education reform, Swinney is warned
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  • Dec 21, 2016
Scotland: Pupils are failing in the basics, say teachers
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  • Dec 14, 2016
28% of P7 pupils ‘not achieving required levels of literacy’
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  • Dec 13, 2016
Scottish schools data published for first time
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  • Dec 13, 2016
28% of P7 pupils 'not achieving required levels of literacy and numeracy'
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  • Dec 13, 2016
Pisa: 'Five years left' to save Scottish curriculum after shocking result
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  • Dec 9, 2016
Scottish pride dented by poor school results
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  • Dec 8, 2016
Schools quango amasses 20,000 pages of online guidance for Scottish teachers
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  • Dec 1, 2016
School inspections plummeting despite Sturgeon's pledge to boost assessments
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  • Nov 28, 2016