A Valuable Source for Education: the Scottish Government Yearbook 1976‐92 |
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| Authors: | Wilson Bain |
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| Institution: | Moray House Institute, Department of Teaching Studies , Holyrood Road, Edinburgh EH8 8AQ, United Kingdom |
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| Abstract: | This paper assesses the significance of articles in the Scottish Government Yearbook, 1976‐92, for understanding of educational issues in that period. Experienced writers contributed 20 such articles on schooling, training, tertiary education, the Technical and Vocational Education Initiative, parental choice and devolved management. All are important for aspects of education systems in the United Kingdom, either because they concern distinctively Scottish approaches or they explore common themes across Britain and beyond. Many draw upon the history and cultures of Scottish and English education, to place educational policy in as broad a social context as is possible within the compass of 10 to 40 pages. The Yearbook has now metamorphosed into a quarterly, Scottish Affairs. It has played a distinctive role as an annual of record and debate to serve the present decade. |
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