66 h. ago Further Education Minister visits Ayrshire College to discuss skills, innovation and regional growth

The visit focused on the College’s contribution to Scotland’s skills and innovation agenda.

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68 h. ago West Lothian College welcomes Health Secretary as part of Scottish Careers Week

Neil Gray MSP visited the Livingston campus this week to learn how the college is driving the development of skills and innovation for students from its SWAP Access to Nursing and HNC Healthcare Practice courses.

Society

6 d. ago Bid to force Education Minister Givan from office over Israel trip fails

Paul Givan called the no-confidence motion against him a ‘calculated attempt to drive a unionist minister from office’.

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7 d. ago People being 'put off' coming to Scotland by high taxes, as SNP accusing of overseeing 'economic

Anas Sarwar has vowed to devolve power away from Holyrood to boost regional economic growth if he forms the next Scottish government.

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7 d. ago People being 'put off' coming to Scotland by high taxes, as SNP accused of overseeing 'economic

Anas Sarwar has vowed to devolve power away from Holyrood to boost regional economic growth if he forms the next Scottish government.

Economics

9 d. ago The president is groped in broad daylight, and Mexican women cry: MeToo, MeToo, MeToo | Mona Eltahawy

After Claudia Sheinbaum was assaulted this week, her opponents claimed she staged it. From their own experiences, the women I met know she didn’t have to“Machismo in Mexico is so fucked up not even the president is safe,” said Caterina Camastra, a professor and feminist, when I talked to her in Morelia, a city west of the Mexican capital this week. Succinct and to the point, it is a sentiment shared by many women in Mexico after watching the now viral video of a drunk man groping the country’s first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum, as she walked from the National Palace to the education ministry on Monday. Sheinbaum, who has pressed charges against the man, said much the same at her daily press briefing on Wednesday: “If they do this to the president, what happens to all the other women in the country?”Sheinbaum’s unprecedented position has made this a teaching moment in a country where women have long complained that sexual harassment and assault on streets and public transport...

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1 week ago House prices will rise 22.2% in the next five years adding £80,000 onto typical value, says Savills

This will vary across Britain, though, with two regions tipped for growth of nearly 29% while another is set for less than 14%.

Economics

2 w. ago Government minister speaks out on Andy Burnham's 'education revolution' in Greater Manchester

"I think it’s really exciting for people. I think there will be great take-up"

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2 w. ago Stormont Opposition pledge to press Givan to respond over Israel trip

The Education Minister has been criticised after his department publicised his visit to a school during the trip.

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2 w. ago Stormont Education Minister Paul Givan under fire over visit to Israel

The Northern Ireland Teachers’ Council said the visit was ‘deeply troubling’.

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2 w. ago Expert calls Welsh Government literacy plan 'not fit for purpose' and quits

Elizabeth Nonweiler has written to Education Minister Lynne Neagle saying Wales' literacy panel has achieved next to nothing in a year of work

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4 w. ago Bridget Phillipson blasts SNP for failing generation of young people

Phillipson, who is Keir Starmer's Education Secretary in England, accused Nats ministers of failing a generation of young Scots.

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