- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 4 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has published legal advice it issued to Disclosure Scotland in 2006 indicating that supervision orders in relation to which an offence had been committed should be disclosed on certificates.
Answer
It is not the practice of the government, as indicated in the Scottish Ministerial Code, to disclose whether it has sought legal advice in relation to a particular matter.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 4 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive in relation to how many individuals has a supervision order been disclosed on their disclosure certificate.
Answer
Between April 2002 and March 2010, Disclosure Scotland has issued 4.5 million disclosure certificates. To establish completely accurate figures about the number of individuals where a supervision order has been disclosed would involve disproportionate cost as that would require a manual search of the content of each certificate.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 4 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive which police force originally requested the legal advice that indicated that supervision orders in relation to which an offence had been committed should be disclosed on certificates.
Answer
As noted in my previous answer, it is not the practice of the government to disclose whether it has sought legal advice in relation to a particular matter.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 28 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive in how many schools history is taught as part of a wider group of subjects, for example integrated in social studies, in (a) S1 and (b) S2 and how this compares with (i) two, (ii) four and (iii) eight years ago.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-33252 on 28 April 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 28 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how much time is spent teaching European history in (a) primary schools, (b) S1 and (c) S2.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-33252 on 28 April 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 16 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 28 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is an expectation on all primary schools to teach modern languages, with lessons being introduced no later than primary six and, if so, for how long this expectation has been in place.
Answer
There is an expectation on all primary schools to teach modern languages, with lessons being introduced no later than primary six. This expectation has been in place since the Scottish Executive responded to the recommendations of the
Citizens of a Multilingual World report in September 2001.
Curriculum for Excellence Experiences and Outcomes guidance for teachers, published on 2 April 2009, reinforces the expectation that schools will offer a modern language beginning no later than primary 6, and that modern language learning and teaching will be exciting, engaging and relevant, developing cultural awareness as well as communicative competence.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 16 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 28 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what role its officials, nominated by ministers to sit on the council of the General Teaching Council for Scotland, have in terms of accrediting Initial Teacher Education programmes.
Answer
Scottish Government officials do not sit on the council but are appointed as assessors. They are entitled to attend and speak but have no voting rights. Assessors have no role in accrediting Initial Teacher Education programmes. Accreditation is solely a matter for the GTCS.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 16 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 28 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that Initial Teacher Education programmes for primary teachers offering no core modern languages in the primary teacher training course adequately prepare new teachers to deliver the full primary curriculum.
Answer
The Guidelines for Initial Teacher Education courses in Scotland are not prescriptive about the balance of course content. Accordingly, courses will include varying proportions of subject content.
The General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS), which is currently being established as the independent, profession-led regulatory body for the teaching profession in Scotland, conducts a thorough process of accreditation of all programmes of Initial Teacher Education (ITE). Officials on behalf of the Scottish ministers approve programmes only on the basis of the council''s recommendations.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 28 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive in how many schools history is taught by someone without a history qualification in (a) S1 and (b) S2 and how this compares with (i) two, (ii) four and (iii) eight years ago.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-33252 on 28 April 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 28 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what information is held on the time spent teaching history in (a) primary schools, (b) S1 and (c) S2 and in comparison with the teaching of other subjects.
Answer
Information is not held centrally on the time spent teaching history in schools or on how schools teach history, including whether history is taught by someone without a history qualification. Curriculum for Excellence provides flexibility on time and content to teach history in the context of the experiences and outcomes and other curriculum guidance.
Developing knowledge and understanding of the world and Scotland''s place in it is among the learner entitlements in Curriculum for Excellence and the Social Studies principles and practice guidance makes clear that children and young people''s experiences will be broadened using Scottish, British, European and wider contexts for learning, while maintaining a focus on the historical, social, geographic, economic and political changes that have shaped Scotland.
