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Bringing Positive Change to the Community with Katie Kelly
Positive change is possible in Scotland, and it's happening. New podcast with former East Ayrshire local authority leader Katie Kelly on how the council there helped to build vibrant communities. Political consensus needed to promote this brilliant work across Scotland.
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Scotland's Schools: The Next Pisa the Puzzle with Lindsay Paterson and Melvyn Roffe
In the wake of disappointing PISA results, Our Scottish Future Director Eddie Barnes is joined by two experts in Scottish education: Lindsay Paterson, Emeritus Professor of Education Policy at the University of Edinburgh and Melvyn Roffe, Principal of George Watson's College.
Listen as they dive deep into Scotland's PISA results; why do they need to improve and how can they improve? This engaging and informative conversation covers multiple areas of Scottish education policy, including the Curriculum for Excellence.
Eddie begins the podcast as a pessimist, but by the end is an optimist!
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4 Nov 2023
A Little Less Conversation: Closing Scotland's Implementation Gap
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The recording of the presentation of the new report from Our Scottish Future.
Titled, "A Little Less Conversation: Closing Scotland's Implementation Gap", the report argues that the successes of devolution has been stymied in recent years by a combination of “too much politics, too much government, a failure to cooperate, and a centralised political culture”. It praises several successes under the Scottish Government but concludes that Ministers too often “govern by press release”.
The panel consists of report author, Jamie Gollings, OSF Chair, Prof Jim Gallagher and former civil servants Philip Rycroft and Lucy Hunter Blackburn.
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Bringing Positive Change to the Community with Katie Kelly
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[…] But we also had some corporate people in a state surveyor because we had a big ambition around community asset transfer, a lawyer. So we brought together people in a unit, but we didn't call it a department. We were trying to move away from service just called it vibrant communities. […]
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