Portfolio Questions

Education and Skills Bill Kidd S6O-00772 1. To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to support expanded recruitment of teaching assistants. Alex Cole-Hamilton S6O-00773 2. To ask the Scottish Government when it last met with the teaching unions. Jim Fairlie S6O-00774 3. To ask the Scottish Government how Curriculum for Excellence meets the needs of colleges and industries in providing appropriate learning to young people to allow them to progress to the next stage of their training. Fulton MacGregor S6O-00775 4. To ask the Scottish Government what action is being taken in schools to promote the mental and emotional wellbeing of children and young people. Oliver Mundell S6O-00776 5. To ask the Scottish Government what the reasons are for its decision not to publish the draft of the OECD report, Curriculum For Excellence: Into The Future, that it received in January 2021. Rona Mackay S6O-00777 6. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the development of the Scottish Education Exchange Programme. Dean Lockhart S6O-00778 7. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its plans for a flexible skills and education system that can help meet net zero targets, as referred to in its Programme for Government 2021-22. Sandesh Gulhane S6O-00779 8. To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the reported comments of Glasgow City Council's new Executive Director of Education regarding reinstating the Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy.