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SQA and Education Scotland to be overhauled, says Somerville

SQA and Education Scotland to be overhauled, says Somerville Updated: 03/06/2021, 5:30 pm The SQA and Education Scotland both face reform (Ben Birchall/PA) Scotland’s top educational bodies will be reformed, Education Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville has announced. Addressing a debate in Holyrood on Thursday, Ms Somerville said the futures of Education Scotland and the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) will depend on a report due to be published later this month by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The news comes as the SQA is under fire from opposition politicians and pupils after the announcement of the appeals process for this year’s qualifications system, which was announced this week as a result of the cancellation of exams.

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SQA crisis: Nicola Sturgeon confuses parents

THE SQA is set to be overhauled as ministers bid to quell growing anger over its performance – and despite Nicola Sturgeon telling Parliament the agency has her full confidence. Critics were quick to attack the contradiction between the First Minister’s comments on Thursday and reform proposals announced shortly afterwards by Education Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville. Oliver Mundell, of the Scottish Conservatives, said: “Trying to tinker round the edges at reforming the SQA simply isn’t good enough. The SQA isn’t fit for purpose and must be axed. “The SNP can’t have it both ways. Nicola Sturgeon said she had full confidence in the SQA, yet a couple of hours later her Education Secretary announces that she wants to reform the SQA after its continued failures.

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Independent candidate Peter Tait wants greater emphasis on moral values

http://shet.news/qpu6e Copied! AS OPENING gambits in an election campaign go, making national newspaper headlines for linking same-sex marriage to a deadly health pandemic is probably not the one most folk would choose. But that’s what independent candidate Peter Tait managed to achieve. While he has made a partial attempt to backpedal having told The Shetland Times that “Covid is possibly related to it”, he is unrepentant in his view that same-sex relationships should be regarded as a “sin”. 12 of 13Adverts In a crowded by-election field in August 2019 he came tenth out of 10 candidates with 31 votes and a 0.3 per cent share of the vote. Back then his candidacy majored on a proposal to relocate the monarchy to Scotland.

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