EDUCATION IN SCOTLAND.

Enterprising education in Scotland: is education for work enough?

Although there have never been prescribed curriculum directives for enterprise education in Scotland, the Scottish government has provided some documents to support and consolidate good practice and provide frameworks for developing programs throughout the school curriculum. The most recent of these is Determined to succeed: a review of enterprise in education (SEED 2002). The government clearl...

Religion, social mobility and education in Scotland.

The relationship among religion, education and social mobility in Scotland is analysed statistically using the Scottish Household Survey of 2001. The large sample size allows much greater statistical power for this purpose than any previous source, and thus allows a more reliable assessment of claims that the stratifying effect of religion in Scotland may have declined. The questions investigat...

Higher Education in Scotland and England after Devolution

The twentieth century saw a convergence of the Scottish and English systems of higher education. Since devolution in 1999 there has been divergence. English policy is based on differentiation and competition, while Scotland has favoured integration and more egalitarianism. Scotland has not followed England in introducing up-front tuition fees or top-up fees. These differences are consistent wit...

Setting the Direction For Nursing and Midwifery Education in Scotland

Problematizing official narratives of HIV and AIDS education in Scotland and Zimbabwe

When human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) are framed within an intersectional approach, they have the potential to transform understandings of social justice within the curriculum and education policy and practice in general. Yet, this transformative potential is often hampered by official narratives that fail to position HIV and AIDS as an integral ...