Dominie ( Wiktionary definition ) is a Scots language and Scottish English term for a Scottish schoolmaster usually of the Church of Scotland and also a term used in the US for a minister or pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church .
82-547: It comes from the Latin domine (vocative case of Dominus 'Lord, Master'). When the Church of Scotland began to introduce universal provision of education in Scotland after it became established as a national church in 1560, its aim was to have a university-educated schoolmaster in every parish . The minister sometimes served as the dominie. Over time this came to be used as a term for
164-564: A Scottish Music school ; through a music service or privately. Some schools in Scotland provide education given in the Scottish Gaelic language. They are mainly located in the main cities of Scotland and in areas with higher numbers of Gaelic speakers. Gaelic medium education is becoming increasingly popular throughout Scotland, and the number of pupils who are in Gaelic medium education at primary school level has risen from 24 in 1985, to 2500 in
246-473: A non-ministerial department on 1 April 2008. ONS produces and publishes a wide range of the information about the United Kingdom that can be used for social and economic policy-making as well as painting a portrait of the country as its population evolves over time. This is often produced in ways that make comparison with other societies and economies possible. Much of the data on which policy-makers depend
328-547: A child leaving that year. Playgroup can be described as a daycare centre for toddlers, then children may go on to attend an early years centre as soon as they have passed their third birthday, and progress to Primary 1 in the August of the year in which they turn five. In general, the cut-off point for ages is the end of February, so all children must be of a certain age on 1 March to begin class in August. All parents of children born between September and February (i.e. still 4 years old on
410-484: A compulsory four years with the following two years being optional. In Scotland, pupils sit National 4/5 exams (previously Standard Grade or Intermediate exams ) at the age of fifteen/sixteen, normally for between 6 and eight subjects including compulsory exams in English and Mathematics. A Science subject (Physics, Biology or Chemistry) and a Social Subject (Geography, History or Modern Studies) were also compulsory, but this
492-447: A duty to assess all UK government statistics. Following Gordon Brown's announcement of new constitutional arrangements for public appointments, Sir Michael also became, on 18 July, the first such nominee to appear before the House of Commons Treasury Committee and to have his nomination subject to confirmation by the House. On 7 February 2008, following the first meeting of the shadow board, it
574-793: A head office in the city of Newport , Wales, and other offices in 2 Marsham Street in London and Titchfield in Hampshire. The Family Records Centre in Myddelton Street in Islington , London, moved to the National Archives in Kew in 2008. They also have an Archive Storage site located in Christchurch , Dorset. The London (Pimlico) office was the head office until April 2006 when the corporate headquarters
656-524: A major problem with the curriculum. Following a review, in 2017, the Scottish Government introduced a new framework that would empower teachers and Early Years Practitioners to remove the unnecessary levels of bureaucracy that had been attached to Curriculum for Excellence , planning and evaluating for children's progress and learning and the paperwork involved in Scottish education as a whole. A review
738-672: A minister, schoolmaster or university student. In the United States and in South Africa the same word is used to describe a pastor in the Dutch Reformed Church . This Christianity -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article relating to education in Scotland is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Education in Scotland Education in Scotland
820-499: A new Curriculum for Excellence that would replace existing guidance on the school curriculum. Curriculum for Excellence was launched in Scottish secondary schools from school session 2012–2013. In 2017, new reforms were introduced moving control over curriculum and schools more towards head teachers and parents. Additional recommendations were made regarding the level of bureaucracy attached to Curriculum for Excellence that had been raised by teachers and Early Years Practitioners as
902-473: A placement request if they would like their child to attend a school outside their catchment area and a panel will decide if the child is the most worthy (out of all placing requests) to take one of the spaces left after all children from the catchment area have been taken. Access to secondary school education in Scotland's island communities can be complex. Due to lower population numbers in some of Scotland's island settlements, not every island community can have
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#1732856194048984-533: A primary school). Nursery classes or early years centres attached to a primary school are inspected by Education Scotland as part of the primary school inspection. In addition to an inspection by Education Scotland inspectors, nursery classes and early years centres are also required to be inspected by the Care Inspectorate. Education Scotland is solely responsible for the inspection of Scotland's primary, secondary and additional support needs schools, and like
1066-410: A relevant subject – can apply for entry at a later stage at university. Further education colleges also provide support to apprenticeship programmes, which are coordinated by the public body Skills Development Scotland . There are fifteen universities in Scotland and three other institutions of higher education which have the authority to award academic degrees . The oldest is St. Andrews , which
1148-419: A secondary school given low pupil numbers and the financial strain this can present by having a secondary school open and operational for what, in some cases, can be a lower than average pupil roll. In some areas, pupils attending secondary school require to travel from island communities to the mainland for access to secondary education, with children residing in residential accommodation (also called hostels) on
1230-445: A set of national standardised assessments, with secondary pupils sitting the national standardised assessments in S3 in literacy, reading and numeracy. The assessments provided data and information to track pupils progress in education and allows the Scottish Government to collate data across Scotland regarding educational performance. The National Improvement Framework for Scottish Education
1312-716: A small office is in London. ONS co-ordinates data collection with the respective bodies in Northern Ireland and Scotland, namely NISRA and NRS . The ONS was formed on 1 April 1996 by the merger of the Central Statistical Office (CSO) and the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS). Following the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 , the United Kingdom Statistics Authority became
1394-572: A smaller range of advanced subjects. The Programme for International Student Assessment coordinated by the OECD in 2018 ranked Scotland as second out of four in the UK (after England) for reading with an average above the OECD average, while scoring third in the UK, and its results steadily dropping, in maths and science, scoring at OECD average. The 2021 Nuffield report noted that "Scottish pupils start off strongly at
1476-506: A taught postgraduate degree (primarily a master's degree) or a doctoral research degree (primarily PhD). The remainder were mostly on other programmes such as Higher National Diploma . 16,000 students were studying in Scotland with The Open University via distance-learning, and the Open University teaches 40 per cent of Scotland's part-time undergraduates. In the 2019 QS World University Rankings , three Scottish universities are among
1558-435: A year longer (typically 4 years) than their counterparts elsewhere in the UK, though it is often possible for students to take more advanced specialised exams and join the courses at the second year. One unique aspect is that the ancient universities of Scotland issue a Master of Arts as the first degree in humanities . State schools are owned and operated by the local authorities which act as Education Authorities , and
1640-640: A young age, but then quickly fall behind their UK peers, particularly in maths, which we know has been an issue that Scotland has had to grapple with for several years." In 2014, research by the Office for National Statistics found that Scotland was the most highly educated country in Europe and among the most well-educated in the world in terms of tertiary education attainment, above countries like Finland , Ireland and Luxembourg , with roughly 40% of Scots aged 16–64 educated to NVQ level 4 and above. Children start primary school aged between 4½ and 5½ depending on when
1722-467: Is 31 May of their 4th year of secondary school. For children born between 1 October and 28 February, the last day of June is the first date they may leave school if they have a placement at college and the school have signed the health & safety forms. Which high school the children go to depends on the area where they live, known as the " catchment area ", which has a specific high school that takes children who live in that area. Parents can also apply for
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#17328561940481804-582: Is assisted by three junior ministers, currently the Minister for Childcare and Early Years , the Minister for Further Education, Higher Education and Science and the Minister for Employability and Training . The Care Inspectorate regulates Early Learning and Childcare provision in Scotland. The Care Inspectorate publish their own independent inspection reviews of early years provision, and also liaises with Education Scotland frequently to conduct an inspection process for stand alone nurseries (those not attached to
1886-863: Is controlled by the Scottish Government under the terms of the Scotland Act 1998 . The minister responsible for higher education is the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills , currently Jenny Gilruth MSP of the Scottish National Party . University status in Scotland and throughout the United Kingdom today is conferred by the Privy Council which takes advice from the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education . All Scottish universities are public universities and funded by
1968-414: Is for children born before 1 September; the equivalence for those born from September to February [December for deferred pupils] is given in brackets): Government funded schools are free for children aged 5–19. In many cases, this applies to children of international post-graduate students, and other immigrants. The age ranges specify the youngest age for a child entering that year and the oldest age for
2050-418: Is more common for students to remain until S6, taking further Highers and/or taking Advanced Highers. The majority of English universities, the most popular choice for Scottish students who wish to study university degrees outside of Scotland, require Advanced Higher qualification levels as these are deemed by the English universities to be most similar to A-levels. Scottish universities generally have courses
2132-720: Is not a set name for secondary schools in Scotland, but whatever they might be called, with just a few specific exceptions in mainly rural or island authorities, state secondary schools in Scotland are fully comprehensive and non-selective. Amongst the state-run secondary schools: Other schools include The Community School of Auchterarder, Auchterarder , Perth and Kinross ; The Nicolson Institute, Stornoway , Western Isles ; North Walls Community School on Hoy , Orkney Islands and Wester Hailes Education Centre, Wester Hailes , Edinburgh. All of these are, equally, fully comprehensive non-selective schools, differing only in designation from all other state secondary schools in Scotland. In 2015,
2214-475: Is produced by ONS through a combination of a decennial population census, samples and surveys and analysis of data generated by businesses and organisations such as the National Health Service and the register of births, marriages and deaths. Its publications, and analyses by other users based on its published data, are reported and discussed daily in the media as the basis for the public understanding of
2296-563: Is provided in state schools , private schools and by individuals through homeschooling . Mandatory education in Scotland begins for children in Primary 1 (P1) at primary school and ends in Fourth Year (S4) at secondary school . Overall accountability and control of state–education in Scotland rests with the Scottish Government , and is overseen by its executive agency, Education Scotland , with additional responsibility for nursery schools being
2378-619: Is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority , a non-ministerial department which reports directly to the UK Parliament . The ONS is responsible for the collection and publication of statistics related to the economy, population and society of the United Kingdom; responsibility for some areas of statistics in Scotland , Northern Ireland and Wales is devolved to the devolved governments for those areas. The ONS functions as
2460-619: Is the most flexible in the UK, however, as parents of children born between September and December can decide to defer for 1 year (but may or may not receive a funded nursery place in the deferral year), whilst children born between January and February can opt to hold their child back a year and let them start school the following August, with guaranteed nursery funding. This usually allows those not ready for formal education to have an extra year at an early years centre (formerly known as nursery). Pupils remain at primary school for seven years. Then aged eleven or twelve, they start secondary school for
2542-801: Is vested in the Scottish Parliament and the Learning Directorate . Inspections and audits of educational standards are conducted by three bodies: Care Inspectorate inspects care standards in pre-school provision; Education Scotland (formerly Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education ) for pre-school , primary, education , further and community education; with the Scottish office of the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA Scotland) responsible for higher education. Unlike England's nationally followed National Curriculum , Scotland had no national standards for some time. In 2003, work began on an education reform programme, to produce
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2624-466: The English system and study towards GCSE instead of National 4/5s (Standard Grades), and towards A and AS-Levels instead of (or alongside) Higher Grade and Advanced Higher exams. The International Baccalaureate has also been introduced in some independent schools. The table below lists rough equivalences with the year system in the rest of the United Kingdom (For England and Wales, the equivalence given
2706-555: The Scottish Government (through its Scottish Funding Council ) and financial support is provided for Scottish-domiciled students by the Student Awards Agency for Scotland . Students ordinarily resident in Scotland do not pay tuition fees for their first undergraduate degree, but tuition fees are charged for those from the rest of the United Kingdom. All students are required to pay tuition fees for postgraduate education (e.g. MSc, PhD), except in certain priority areas funded by
2788-675: The Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA). Generally, most pupils take National 4/5s (previously Standard Grades , but some schools offered Intermediates instead) in S3-S4, and Highers in S5. The number of National 4/5 qualifications a pupil enters can vary drastically depending on the individual, with the most common number of National 5s taken, per pupil, in 2017 being 6, however some may choose to undertake as few as one or two, up to eight or nine. For those who wish to remain at school for
2870-589: The Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 . In July 2007, Sir Michael Scholar was nominated by the government to be the three-day-a-week non-executive chairman of the Statistics Board which, with the intention of re-establishing faith in the integrity of government statistics, was to take on statutory responsibility for oversight of UK statistics in April 2008 and oversee the Office for National Statistics; also having
2952-477: The 2004 Big Brother Award for the "Most Heinous Government Organisation" from the campaigning organisation Privacy International for its Citizen Information Project . The project is one of several that led the Information Commissioner to warn that there is a danger of the country "sleepwalking" into a surveillance society . In December 2012 the organisation's new website to provide statistics to
3034-612: The 2012–13 school year. Further education is provided through a network of further education colleges available to people having reached the end of compulsory education at 16. In the early 2010s, colleges were merged to form larger, regional institutions. Colleges offer a wide range of vocational qualifications to young people and older adults, including vocational, competency-based qualifications (previously known as SVQs ), Higher National Certificates and Higher National Diplomas . In Scotland, FE college students receiving certain qualifications – frequently HNC and HND qualifications in
3116-570: The Care Inspectorate, can also produce their own independent inspection reviews of early learning and childcare establishments in Scotland. Secondary education is provided by secondary schools throughout Scotland, both in the state and independent sector. The vast majority of schools in the state sector are administered directly by the local Education Authority, which is synonymous with the 32 councils used for local government. There are three broad classifications of schools in Scotland: There
3198-711: The Exchequer, announced on 28 November 2005, that the government intended to publish plans in early 2006 to legislate that the ONS and the statistics it generates are independent of government on a model based on the independence of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England. This was originally a 1997 Labour manifesto commitment and was also the policy of the Liberal Democrat and Conservative parties. Such independence
3280-827: The Home Office, the Department of Health , and the Department for Education and Skills . ONS is also responsible for the maintenance of the Inter-Departmental Business Register and the Business Structure Database . Before the establishment of the UK Statistics Authority , the statistical work of ONS, since June 2000, was scrutinised by the Statistics Commission , an independent body with its own chairman and small staff. This ceased to operate from 1 April 2008. The General Register Office and
3362-550: The National Improvement Framework. The attainment challenge focuses and accelerates targeted improvement activity in literacy, numeracy and health and wellbeing in specific areas of Scotland, known as "challenge authorities" (those councils with a higher percentage of children growing up in poverty and deprivation). At a cost of £750 million to the Scottish Government through the Attainment Scotland Fund,
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3444-538: The ONS already acted independently, as per its own published guidelines, the National Statistics Code of Practice, which set out the key principles and standards that official statisticians, including those in other parts of the government statistical service, were expected to follow and uphold). The details of the plans for independence were considered in Parliament during the 2006/2007 session and resulted in
3526-619: The ONS. John Pullinger replaced Jil Matheson as National Statistician (and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority) in July 2014. Pullinger retired in June 2019 and in October 2019 professor Sir Ian Diamond assumed the role of National Statistician. The work of the ONS covers the collection of data and the analysis and publication of statistics covering the economy, population, and society of
3608-550: The Scottish Government launched the Scottish Attainment Challenge which aims to achieve equity in educational outcomes throughout Scotland. The Scottish Government envisages equity being achieved by ensuring every child has the same opportunity to succeed, with a particular focus on closing the poverty-related attainment gap. It is underpinned by national Scottish educational policies such as Curriculum for Excellence , Getting it Right for Every Child (GIRFEC) as well as
3690-539: The Scottish Government, or if another source of funding can be found (e.g. research council studentship for a PhD). A representative body called Universities Scotland works to promote Scotland's universities, as well as six other higher education institutions. The university sector in Scotland had a total income of £3.5 billion in 2014/15 with the Scottish Government giving approximately £623 million in funding for individual university student support. The Scottish Funding Council contributing £1.1 billion of public money to
3772-450: The Scottish Government. When proposing a change to any aspect of education provision in their area, local authorities must engage in a formal process as required through the Schools (Consultation) (Scotland) Act 2010 . Education in Scotland has a history of universal provision of public education , and the Scottish education system is distinctly different from those in the other countries of
3854-482: The State education system, ensuring the promotion of a Roman Catholic ethos within such schools. The Scottish Government is responsible for the education system in Scotland, and the countries education system is overseen by Education Scotland , an executive agency of the Scottish Government. The Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills has overall responsibility for education provision in Scotland. The Cabinet Secretary
3936-549: The UK. Where data is broken down by geographical area, this is usually done by the areas defined in the ONS geographical coding system . The principal areas of data collection include: Statisticians are also employed by many other Government departments and agencies, and these statisticians often collect and publish data. They are members of the Government Statistical Service and are the professional responsibility of
4018-493: The United Kingdom. The Scotland Act 1998 gives the Scottish Parliament legislative control over all education matters, and the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 is the principal legislation governing education in Scotland. Traditionally, the Scottish system at secondary school level has emphasised breadth across a range of subjects, while the English , Welsh and Northern Irish systems have emphasised greater depth of education over
4100-401: The challenge is a targeted initiative focused on supporting pupils in the local authorities of Scotland with the highest concentrations of deprivation. Currently, the nine 'Challenge Authorities' are Glasgow City Council , Dundee City Council , Inverclyde , West Dunbartonshire , North Ayrshire , Clackmannanshire , North Lanarkshire , East Ayrshire and Renfrewshire . On 1 February 2017
4182-408: The child's birthday falls. Scottish school policy places all those born between March of a given year and February of the following year in the same year group. Children born between March and August start school in August at between 5 and 5½ years old, and those born between September and February start school in the previous August at between age 4½ and 4 years 11 months years old. The Scottish system
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#17328561940484264-430: The compulsory phase is divided into primary school and secondary school (often called high school). Schools are supported in delivering learning and teaching by Education Scotland (formerly Learning and Teaching Scotland ). There are also private schools across the country, although the distribution is uneven with such schools in 22 of the 32 Local Authority areas. At September 2011 the total pupil population in Scotland
4346-1056: The country in which they live. The reliance on some of these data by government (both local and national) makes ONS material central to debates about the determination of priorities, the allocation of resources and for decisions on interest rates or borrowing. The complexity and degree and speed of change in the society, combined with the challenge of measuring some of these (e.g. in relation to longevity, migration or illness patterns or fine movements in inflation or other aspects of national accounts) give rise to periodic debates about some of its indicators and portrayals. Many of these rely on sources which are outside ONS, while some of its own sources need to be supplemented, for example between censuses, by updated but less rigorously obtained information from other sources. Consequently, unexpected or incomplete data or occasional errors or disputes about its analysis can also attract considerable attention. ONS data can also be used in epidemiologic studies such as survival analysis . Gordon Brown , then Chancellor of
4428-639: The economic and social policies and monitor the economic progress of the United Kingdom. It also allows international comparisons to be made. The Blue Book is published alongside the United Kingdom Balance of Payments – The Pink Book . The Office for National Statistics collaborates with the University of Southampton in the teaching of an MSc in Official Statistics; the programme has been running since 2003. The Virtual Microdata Laboratory (VML)
4510-748: The executive office of the National Statistician , who is also the UK Statistics Authority's Chief Executive and principal statistical adviser to the UK's National Statistics Institute, and the 'Head Office' of the Government Statistical Service (GSS). Its main office is in Newport near the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office and Tredegar House , but another significant office is in Titchfield in Hampshire, and
4592-595: The expected literacy level by the end of primary school. The government withdrew Scotland from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study in 2010, making international comparisons of literacy difficult. It remains part of the Programme for International Student Assessment , which shows that Scotland's international standing in reading and mathematics (as well as science) in schools fell between
4674-520: The fact that few of the experienced staff working in these highly technical areas were expected to relocate to Newport, resulting in a substantial loss of expertise and a consequent threat to the continued quality of the statistics. In a submission to the Parliamentary Treasury Sub Committee, the Bank of England expressed concern over the relocation of the ONS to Newport , saying, that "the relocation programme poses serious risks to
4756-531: The fifteen universities, this was a six per cent reduction since 2010/11. In 2014–15, approximately 232,570 students studied at universities or institutes of higher education in Scotland, of which 56% were female and 44% male, with 66% being domiciled in Scotland, 12% from the rest of the United Kingdom, 9% from the EU and the remaining 13% being international students . Of all these, approximately 76% were studying for their first degree (i.e. undergraduate level) and 24% for
4838-481: The final year (S6), more Highers and Advanced Highers (formerly CSYS ) in S6 can be taken. Previous qualifications Intermediate 1 and Intermediate 2 – were intended to be roughly equivalent to General and Credit Level Standard Grades respectively. Pupils can go to university at the end of S5, as Highers provide the entry requirements for Scottish universities where degrees are normally four years long; however, recently it
4920-544: The first decade of the century and 2018. The Scottish Survey of Adult Literacies in 2009 reported that 26.7% of adults in Scotland "may face occasional challenges and constrained opportunities due to their literacy difficulties, but will generally cope with their day-to-day lives". Of that group, 3.6% "face serious challenges in their literacy practices". Music education is available at several levels. Formal music education begins at 4½ years and can progress as high as postgraduate studies. Music education can take place within
5002-604: The head of the service, who is also the National Statistician. Each department has a statistical service Head of Profession . For example, data on Agriculture, Fishing and Forestry comes primarily from the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs . Along with economic data on which the Treasury and Bank of England rely for decision-making, many of the statistics that receive widespread media attention are issued by
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#17328561940485084-558: The joint responsibility of both Education Scotland and the Care Inspectorate . Scotland's private schools are overseen by the Scottish Council of Independent Schools . Children in Scotland sit mandatory National Standardised Assessments in Primary 1 (P1), Primary 4 (P4), Primary 7 (P7) at the end of primary school, and Third Year (S3) in secondary school, which assist in monitoring children's progress and providing diagnostic data information to support teachers' professional judgement. Each of Scotland's 32 local authorities have control over
5166-449: The mainland during school term-term to avoid having to make lengthy travel back to their island communities. The Scottish Government has pledged to ensure that "island students be put on an equal platform with their counterparts from the mainland". The table below lists list the numbers of children, schools and teachers in all publicly funded schools: Home education is also legal in Scotland. Parents wishing to home educate do not need
5248-444: The maintenance of the quality of macroeconomic data. If substantial numbers of ONS staff are unwilling to relocate, the loss of skilled individuals could have a severe impact on a range of statistics." The director of ONS at the time vigorously defended the implementation of government policy on civil service relocation and the decision to concentrate staff in the three locations outside London. The Office for National Statistics won
5330-498: The permission of the Local Authority unless the children are already registered at a school. There are no exact numbers available for children being educated at home in Scotland. All educational qualifications in Scotland are part of the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework , ranging between Scottish Qualifications Authority qualifications, Scottish Vocational Qualifications and higher education qualifications. Pupils in Primary 1, Primary 4 and Primary 7 at primary school sit
5412-457: The post of Registrar-General for England and Wales ceased to be part of ONS from that date but remains subject to ministerial accountability within the Home Office . The annual United Kingdom National Accounts are published in an online publication (The Blue Book ) by the Office for National Statistics. It records and describes economic activity in the United Kingdom and as such is used by government, banks, academics and industries to formulate
5494-449: The poverty related attainment gap. The SNP-led government launched the Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy in 2011. The survey showed a sustained decline in basic literacy and numeracy among school pupils over six years. It was then scrapped by the government and its measures of literacy were replaced in part with a system based on teacher judgements. The teacher judgement data from December 2018 indicated that 70% of pupils achieved
5576-450: The provision of mandatory education and early learning and childcare (nursery education; not mandatory) in their area and have a statutory requirement to ensure pupils in each area receive adequate and efficient provision of school education. Each local authority has control over their own education budget and have responsibility to ensure that their local authority area is implementing national educational policy and guidelines as directed by
5658-458: The public was described as "a disaster" by members of parliament on the Public Administration Committee. The chair of the UK Statistics Authority said that significant improvements to the website were being made, but admitted that its state at the time made it "difficult to use, difficult to navigate and difficult to search". In 2016, professor Sir Charles Bean conducted an independent review of UK Economic Statistics. He notes that although there
5740-478: The school start date) are entitled to defer entry to Primary School if they believe their child is not ready for school. Only children whose birthdays fall in January or February will be considered for funding for a subsequent year at an early years centre, unless there are special circumstances. Children may leave school once they reach their statutory school leaving date; this is dependent on date of birth. For children born between 1 March and 30 September, this date
5822-401: The share each primary and secondary school will receive for the academic year 2017–2018 from the Scottish Government's £120 million Pupil Equity Funding was announced by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills John Swinney . This funding is provided through the Attainment Scotland Fund and allocated directly to schools, targeted at those children most affected by
5904-476: The top 100 worldwide: University of Edinburgh (at 18), University of Glasgow (at 69), University of St. Andrews (at 97). Other high ranked universities are the University of Aberdeen (at 172), University of Strathclyde (at 268), University of Dundee (at 272), Heriot-Watt University (at 302) and University of Stirling (at 417). Office for National Statistics The Office for National Statistics ( ONS ; Welsh : Swyddfa Ystadegau Gwladol )
5986-422: Was 702,104, of which 31,425 pupils, or 4.5%, were being educated in independent schools. Qualifications at the secondary school and post-secondary ( further education ) level are provided by the Scottish Qualifications Authority , which is the national awarding and accrediting body in Scotland, and delivered through various schools, colleges and other centres. Political responsibility for education at all levels
6068-680: Was also sought by the Royal Statistical Society and the Statistics Commission . The National Statistician would be directly accountable to Parliament through a more widely constituted independent governing Statistics Board. The ONS would be a non-ministerial government department so that the staff, including the Director, would remain as civil servants but without being under direct ministerial control. The then National Statistician, Dame Karen Dunnell , stated that legislation would help improve public trust in official statistics (although
6150-633: Was announced that it would be known as the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA). In 2012, Andrew Dilnot replaced Michael Scholar as chairman of the Authority. Since its establishment, ONS has had five Directors: professor Tim Holt ; Len Cook ; Karen Dunnell ; Jil Matheson ; and, from October 2012, Glen Watson . Len Cook was the first Director to hold the newly created role of National Statistician. The roles of Director of ONS and National Statistician were combined until 2012 when Jil Matheson continued as National Statistician while Glen Watson became Director of
6232-537: Was changed in accordance with the new curriculum. It is now required by the Scottish Parliament for students to have two hours of physical education a week; each school may vary these compulsory combinations. The school leaving age is generally sixteen (after completion of National 4/5s), after which students may choose to remain at school and study for Higher and/or Advanced Higher exams. A small number of students at certain private, private schools may follow
6314-424: Was established in 2004 to allow researchers access to business data. It is a secure facility within the Office for National Statistics where both government officials and academic researchers can analyse sensitive, detailed data for statistical purposes. The researchers cannot download the data or take any copies out of the laboratory and the results of the analysis is checked for statistical disclosure. The ONS has
6396-560: Was founded in 1413. Three other " ancient universities ", Glasgow , Aberdeen and Edinburgh , date from before 1600. The University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) gained full university status in 2011, having been created through the federation of 13 colleges and research institutions across the Highlands and Islands, a process that began in 2001. All Scottish universities have the power to award degrees at all levels: undergraduate, taught postgraduate, and doctoral. Education in Scotland
6478-812: Was launched to ensure that children and young people in Scottish education experience a range of opportunities to learn and develop skills and capacities and ensuring that children and young people experience a broad general education. The National Improvement Framework document highlighted six key drivers for improvement in Scottish education; School and Early Learning and Childcare leadership, teacher and Early Years Practitioner professionalism, parental/carer involvement and engagement, curriculum and assessment, school and Early Learning and Childcare improvement and performance information. Progression in Qualifications The vast majority of Scottish pupils take Scottish Qualifications Certificate qualifications provided by
6560-526: Was moved to Newport following the Lyons Review on public sector relocation. Between 2011 and 2022 the London office was located on the 2nd floor of the former Drummond Gate headquarters; since 2022 the London office has been located in 2 Marsham Street. The ONS asserted that recruitment and training of quality staff in South Wales, where data collection and analysis already took place, would ensure that there
6642-502: Was no risk to the quality of its services and that it managed the risks associated with the changes. However, the plan to discontinue statistical activity in London proved controversial amid claims that the shift of functions from London and the closure of the London office would have serious implications for the future of certain sets of statistics. These include health statistics, National Accounts, Retail and Consumer Prices and Labour Market Statistics. These risks were stated to derive from
6724-598: Was undertaken by the OECD , having been commissioned by the Scottish Government to look at the broad general education. The majority of schools are non- denominational , and include the parish schools, pioneered by the Church of Scotland and other Protestant Churches, which became state schools in 1872. Religious education is taught in non-denominational schools and in denominational schools. Of over 2,500 schools in Scotland, there are 366 state schools which are Roman Catholic, three Episcopalian and one Jewish. The Education (Scotland) Act 1918 brought Roman Catholic schools within
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