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Following home educators’ formal representations last October to Deputy First Minister and cabinet secretary for Education & Skills, John Swinney, we have finally had a constructive discussion with the Scottish Government and received assurances that new arrangements for SQA exams Read More …
No official response has yet been forthcoming from the cabinet secretary for education and skills, John Swinney MSP, to the joint letter sent in October 2020 by Home Education Scotland, which urged him to ensure that any new SQA exams Read More …
Home Education Scotland has written to Deputy First Minister and cabinet secretary for Education & Skills, John Swinney MSP, urging him to ensure that any new arrangements for SQA exams due to Covid-19 takes into account the needs of independent Read More …
By way of yet another example of the wilful blindness of policy-makers to home education as an equally valid alternative to schooling, The Times reports on the failure of Ofqual and the UK government to consider home educated and other Read More …
A Parliamentary Question by Liz Smith MSP on access to SQA exams and qualifications for home educated young people, has been answered by education cabinet secretary John Swinney MSP. Question S5W-10225: Liz Smith, Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Read More …
