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Milngavie MSP Des McNulty has forced SNP Planning Minister Keith Brown to admit that Tesco’s appeal against the decision to refuse the planning application for a monster store in Milngavie has cost £16,000 – and Tesco’s will not have to pay a penny.
The Scottish government stands accused of ‘papering over the cracks’ over their mismanagement of Curriculum for Excellence after it was announced that all secondary school inspections were to be suspended later this year to allow school inspectors to work on the reforms.
There is a crisis pending over the implementation of the Curriculum for Excellence. Teachers have every right to be angry that they are being asked to implement a major curricular reform without the resources or guidance promised while Mike Russell goes off junketing to the United States and Canada.
The Curriculum for Excellence was supposed to promote intellectual enquiry, focusing on ‘deep learning’ and higher order skills. Similar initiatives are taking place in many countries so CfE is the Scottish version of a broader based pedagogical change which has the support of most, although not all, education professionals.
