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Commission on School Reform says both exams and coursework must have a role The Commission on School Reform, the independent group of education experts set up by the think tank Reform Scotland, today calls for a full-scale public review of assessment in schools. The Commission, which is composed of teachers and other education experts, believes …
Experts Propose Extra Eight Hours Per Week For Two Years The Commission on School Reform, the independent group of education experts set up by the think tank Reform Scotland, today asks the Scottish Government to set up a radical programme of catch-up to repair the damage caused to children by lost education during Scotland’s two …
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The Commission on School Reform, the independent group of education experts set up by the think tank Reform Scotland, has called for the urgent reform of Curriculum for Excellence (CfE). In a submission to the OECD ahead of its review of the Broad General Education (BGE) phase of CfE, the Commission, chaired by one of the original …
FOI requests show dramatic pre-covid increase in long-term absence; think tank calls for more data and more support Answers to Freedom of Information requests to all local authorities in Scotland have revealed the extent of long-term absence in Scotland’s schools. The Commission on School Reform, the independent group of education experts set up by the …
The Commission on School Reform, the independent group of education experts set up by the think tank Reform Scotland, today proposes six extra hours per week of catch-up lessons for pupils over the next two years, in order to repair the damage caused by lost education during lockdown. Professor Lindsay Paterson, professor of education policy …
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Reform Scotland, the independent, non-partisan think tank, says today that all graduates should in future be expected to contribute to the cost of their university education. At present, only students from outside the EU and from England, Wales and Northern Ireland pay for tuition. Scottish students and those from EU member states pay nothing. The …
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Experts say attainment gap will widen without extra help The Commission on School Reform, the independent education group set up by the think tank Reform Scotland, has proposed an urgent effort to recruit an army of online tutors to help school pupils during the Coronavirus school shutdown. In a new paper – Learning at Home – the …
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Reform Scotland has called on the Scottish Government urgently to change its advice to schools so that all pupils are again permitted to sit eight exams in S4. The demand is contained in a new briefing paper, A Test of Fairness, published today. Keir Bloomer, Chair of Reform Scotland’s Commission on School Reform and an …
Scotland needs a major rethink in how it measures educational performance, a group of experts announces today In a new paper, the independent Commission on School Reform (CSR) argues that a lack of reliable data makes it difficult to tell whether standards in Scottish school education are rising or falling. The Scottish Government has scrapped domestic …
