Teachers in Scotland 2008.

This report was published by the Scottish Government on 24th March 2009.

“This report contains the latest data on teachers and support staff in publicly funded schools in Scotland, mainly derived from the annual staff census which took place in September 2008. Information from the census is used to inform policy making, particularly in modelling the teacher workforce to ensure adequate future supply of newly trained teachers, and for monitoring current policies and equality issues.”

Expenditure on School Education in Scotland, 2007-08

This document was published on 25th march 2009. 

 

“This document gives the figures for local authority spending on school education in the financial year 2007-08. This therefore most closely relates to the academic year 2007/08.”

Microgeneration

Scottish Parliament published this briefing this week. 

“Microgeneration has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and cut energy bills for households and businesses. However, to date, there has been very limited uptake of microgeneration. This briefing outlines the technologies and barriers to uptake, it examines Scottish and UK Government policy, and it looks at recent reports on how to achieve widespread uptake and the potential for reducing emissions.”

Placing requests in Scottish Schools 2007/08

This document was published by the Scottish Government yesterday.

“It contains results of the latest annual survey of placing requests (requests by parents to local authorities that a child be placed in a specified school).”