Learning & Skills in Scotland – What’s on the horizon for 2019?

In an interview for Radio EDUtalk, Angela took David Noble’s listeners on the third annual whistle-stop tour of some of the items that will be shaping Scotland’s learning & skills landscape this year.

You can listen to a podcast of the show, which also reviewed the Hottest Topics in 2018. Below are links to some of the programmes, projects and events mentioned for 2019:

National programmes & reviews

• Scottish Government published its 2019 National Improvement Framework and Improvement Plan
• A new Scottish Framework for Fair Access is to be launched; a pilot version is available
• An Independent Panel is looking at Career Pathways for Teachers
• UK Standing Committee for Quality Assessment consultation on degree classification is open to 8 February

Resources, opportunities & courses

• SQA is continuing to publish documents on the changes to Advanced Higher assessments
• Two universities are offering teacher education courses for the first time from September – Edinburgh Napier and Queen Margaret University
• Applications for Erasmus+ funding are open to Scottish schools and organisations until 5 February (for mobility funding) and 21 March (for strategic partnership funding)
• British Council has CPD workshops available in Norway, Albania and France for teachers in Scotland and the wider UK  
• Children’s University Scotland is keen to hear from schools interested in working with them on new ways to support children’s wider participation in learning outside of school and during holiday periods
• The General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) is continuing its national rollout of MyProfessionalLearning
• SCQF Partnership has projects to recognise and map the skills of migrants and veterans

Future Learning & Skills

• The Skills Development Scotland report Skills 4.0: A skills model for the future is being used as a focus by Education Scotland as part of the Developing the Young Workforce agenda
• Scotland’s Futures Forum and the Goodison Group in Scotland are continuing to explore Scotland 2030: Education and Learning
• University of Edinburgh is running a Near Future Teaching project

Themed weeks & major conferences: full list on the Events Calendar

• Scottish Apprenticeship Week 4–8 March
• Scotland’s Learning Partnership themed weeks including Adult Learners’ 18–24 May and Family Learning 8–14 June
• Learning at Work Week and Learning Disability Week 13–19 May
• Osiris Educational’s Visible Learning World Conference 12–13 March, Edinburgh
• UCAS International Teachers’ and Advisers’ Conference 3–4 June, Glasgow
• International Primary Science Education Conference 6–8 June, Edinburgh
• College Development Network’s second College Expo 12–13 June, Perth College UHI
• Association for Learning Technology’s conference 3–5 September, Edinburgh
• Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning conference 9–12 September, Edinburgh
• Scottish Learning Festival 25–26 September, Glasgow
• Various Pedagoo events throughout the year including Muckle Grampian, PedagooTweed and EnquiryMeet_RCS
• The Open University is celebrating its 50th anniversary and City & Guilds its 140th
  

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