YOUNG people across Scotland returned to school for the start of the new term this week. Their summer holidays having just come to an abrupt end,…
'Last year, only 20% of newly qualified primary teachers had a job the September after becoming fully qualified'
Harking back to the great minds produced by our ancient universities, in 2015 the former first minister argued thatUnfortunately for the Scottish Government, its record is somewhat out of step with the romanticised history of Scotland’s vaunted schooling achievements.’s inability to renew “Scotland’s proud educational traditions’’ tells a different story entirely. It offers a revealing insight into how their brand of liberal nationalism comprehensively fails to address class-based issues.
In Glasgow, at the close of last year, EIS-FELA members at Scotland’s largest college took indefinite strike action over up to 100 proposed job losses. True to form, the Scottish Government has displayed an incapacity to alleviate the issues created by more than a decade of austerity in education. Doing so would require a radical break with how the SNP govern. Holyrood would have to act rather than administrate, to intervene rather than manage. Since 2014, avoiding upsetting the apple cart has trumped all other priorities with few exceptions.
While pupils condemned their experience of exams as an “absolute nightmare”, the SNP could barely muster the imagination to alter an acronym, let alone the education system. Next year, exams will once again take their pre-Covid form as the protests of pupils and their teachers are buried in a mountain of bureaucracy.
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