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Scottish Learning Festival 2012 – registration now open!

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The SLF 2012 Conference Programme and visitor registration are now available on the SLF website. 

The Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning will give the opening address to SLF.

In addition, there will be the following keynote speakers:
• Professor Keith Grint, Professor of Public Leadership, Warwick University Business School
• Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive, RSA.

The full programme of keynotes and seminars, along with details of the range of additional activities, is now available on the SLF website.

Education Scotland, Events, News, Primary schools, Secondary schools

Refugee Week Scotland, 18th-24th June 2012

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Each year Refugee Week grows and increases in profile, making its mark on the UK’s cultural calendar. This year’s theme Spirit captures:

  • Spirit of survival and the individual – the determination needed to flee persecution and rebuild your life
  • Community spirit – the connections between refugees and local communities
  • Scotland’s spirit – the cultural diversity of Scotland today.

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Education Scotland, News

15 month extension to the current version of glow

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The Scottish Government will continue to fund the current version of glow at the same time as planning the introduction of a new version

 

A notice has been published (see the link below) signalling the Scottish Government’s intention to extend the current Glow contract with RM Education for 15 months after its expiry on 15 September this year.  The contract will be signed after a 10 day standstill period.
In parallel the Scottish Government is continuing with the tender exercise for a new ‘Integrated Application Suite’ for Glow (tools and services such as email, calendar, web conferencing etc).  We expect to make a decision on this by the end of May.  For reasons of commercial sensitivity we cannot comment on this process in any further detail.
The future of Glow must focus on the needs of the pupils and teachers who use it, and this step has been taken to secure continuity of service for Glow users.  Education Scotland and the Scottish Government are committed to working with these users, ADES and others stakeholders as we transition towards a new Glow.

  

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CPD, Creative Learning, Creativity, Curriculum for Excellence, Education Scotland, Learning, Opportunities

Embedding Creativity Across Learning

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Creativity and You! Embedding Creativity Across Learning – May 25, Glasgow Science Centre, 10am – 3.30pm

The Scottish Government, Education Scotland and Creative Scotland are working in partnership to deliver a national event designed to showcase innovation across teaching and learning in a range of subjects beyond the expressive arts. Directors of Education have been invited to attend together with teacher colleagues from different subject backgrounds.

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Education Scotland, News

Levenmouth community learning and development work recognised as some of the best in Scotland

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A new report by Education Scotland, on the inspection of the learning community in the Buckhaven High School area, highlights it as having one of the best inspection results in Scotland.

Responding to the positive report, Joe Fitzpatrick, Head of Education (Communities) added: “This is a tremendous accolade for Fife. The report underlines the quality of work to support learners and communities in the Levenmouth area, and highlights the commitment from individuals and groups in the area to work with the Council and its partners to produce positive local outcomes. I would like to thank everyone who participated in the inspection process, and helped to inform this independent evaluation which shows the very positive impacts of well organised community learning activity in the area.”

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Curriculum for Excellence, Education Scotland, Expressive Arts, Music, News, Secondary schools, SQA

New National Qualifications Music website

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This website has been developed by Education Scotland in in partnership with practitioners to support learning and teaching at National 3, National 4 and National 5. It is hoped that both learners and practitioners alike will use this website and find the materials to be invaluable when studying music.

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