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Sean Bell: Scotland’s children deserve the right to opt out of enforced religious observance
11.12.20December 11, 2020

“Children in Scotland still do not have the right to opt out of the Christianity-focused ‘religious observance’ which bafflingly remains a statutory duty for all state-funded schools to provide.”

Opinion

Sean Bell: Scotland’s children deserve the right to opt out of enforced religious observance


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 […]

Opinion

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


‘The only immediate consequence is more uncertainty’: James McEnaney talks Scottish schools and Coronavirus
25.06.20June 25, 2020

“As ever, a small group of particularly loud voices was presented as representing ‘parent power’. None of this is new in Scotland but for the sake of our kids I really, really wish we could move beyond it.”

Feature

‘The only immediate consequence is more uncertainty’: James McEnaney talks Scottish schools and Coronavirus


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