Informed Scotland November 2019 – Learning & skills making the headlines

Preparations for the General Election might have restricted some government business, but it didn’t stop the publication of a raft of reports worth highlighting on a range of topics.

In particular:

• the Scottish Parliament Education & Skills Committee’s Report on STEM in early years education
• University of Edinburgh’s research Towards a sustainable solution for the shortage of computing teachers in Scotland
• The Muscatelli Report on innovation and universities’ contribution to economic growth
• the 1919 Centenary Commission’s report on Adult Education and Lifelong Learning
• a Progress Report from the Commission on the College of the Future
• the third of three Learning Insights reports by Kineo on the global race for employers to upskill their workforce
• and two reports on progress, or the lack of it, in tackling gender imbalance – the final report of the Women in Agriculture Taskforce and the annual Women in Engineering statistics from the National Centre for Education & Business.

In January we’ll be taking our annual stocktake of Learning & Skills ‘Hottest Topics’ from Informed Scotland covers in 2019. This month Curriculum for Excellence was back on the cover for the first time since July/August 2016, after a critical research report by Prof Jim Scott created media and political headlines and sparked a ‘rancorous’ debate. With more headlines being generated on attainment, plus published analysis and new research underway at the University of Stirling, we suspect the topic will be ‘hot’ for a while yet.

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