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Higher Education

Source Direct: Britain’s Empire – Education as Propaganda
10.06.21June 10, 2021

If students pass through an American history course believing Woodrow Wilson was a saint, or a British history course believing the same of Winston Churchill, education has become indoctrination.

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Source Direct: Britain’s Empire – Education as Propaganda


Analysis: After the school grades fiasco – what’s next for Scottish education?
04.09.20September 4, 2020

“Already by the start of September, students are arriving at Scottish campuses for the most extraordinary academic year in living memory.”

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Analysis: After the school grades fiasco – what’s next for Scottish education?


Becki Menzies: I would have been one of those kids let down by the SQA system – it’s time for change
10.08.20August 10, 2020

Common Weal communications officer Becki Menzies looks at the SQA grading debacle through her own experience of going to a school in a deprived area. She argues that this should be a wake-up call. If my fifth year exams results had been marked by the same SQA methodology as this year, I’d probably not the […]

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Becki Menzies: I would have been one of those kids let down by the SQA system – it’s time for change


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