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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S6W-30811

Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 October 2024
Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 19 November 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the importance of the Trade Union Education Centre in Scotland.

Question reference: S6W-30813

Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 October 2024
Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 19 November 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what estimate (a) it and (b) the City of Glasgow College has made of any lost revenue for the College resulting from unions reportedly being unable to secure places at the Trade Union Education Centre beyond June 2025.

Question reference: S6W-30812

Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 October 2024
Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 19 November 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that staff at the Trade Union Education Centre are being prevented from planning and offering courses beyond June 2025.

Operational decisions on course planning and delivery are for individual colleges to determine. I encourage the City of Glasgow College and the Trade Union Congress to build upon its recent partnership agreement and work together to ensure sustainable delivery of trade union education at the College on a longer term basis.

I raised this issue with the Principal of City of Glasgow College on 29 October 2024, who assured me the College remains committed to providing trade union education.

Question reference: S6W-30830

Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 October 2024
Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 19 November 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-29283 by Jenny Gilruth on 24 September 2024, when it will publish the review of the 2024 Higher History paper.

Publication of the 2024 Higher History marking review is an operational matter for the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) in its independent role as an examination body.

SQA published the review on 6 November 2024, and it can be accessed at:

Higher History Review finds marking standards did not change - SQA

Higher History Review 2024

Higher History Review 2024 – Summary Version

SQA’s Process for Awarding Graded National Courses – Infographic

Question reference: S6W-30814

Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 October 2024
Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 19 November 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what action it can take to ensure that the Trade Union Education Centre will be able to provide an extensive range of trade union learning opportunities beyond June 2025.

Question reference: S6W-30810

Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 October 2024
Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 18 November 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what recent discussions it has had with the management of the City of Glasgow College regarding the long-term future of the Trade Union Education Centre.

I raised this issue with the Principal of City of Glasgow College on 29 October 2024, who assured me the College remains committed to providing trade union education.

The Scottish Government welcomes the new partnership agreement reached between the College and the Trade Union Congress. I encourage both parties to continue to work collaboratively to find ways to ensure sustainable delivery of trade union education at the City of Glasgow College on a longer-term basis.

Question reference: S6W-31041

Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 04 November 2024
Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 14 November 2024

To ask the Scottish Government which members of the Cabinet have visited a college in the last year.

The following members of the Cabinet have visited a college in the last year:

John Swinney MSP, First Minister
Kate Forbes MSP, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Gaelic
Shona Robison MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government
Neil Gray MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Jenny Gilruth MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills
Gillian Martin MSP, Acting Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero and Energy
Fiona Hyslop MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Transport
Mairi Gougeon MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform and Islands
Angela Constance MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Home Affairs

Question reference: S6W-30980

Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 31 October 2024
Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 14 November 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, regarding the Education (Scotland) Bill, what its position is on how the new Tertiary Quality Enhancement Framework will sit with the work of the proposed inspectorate.

As set out in the Scottish Government’s response to Professor Muir’s report, the move of the inspection function to the new Chief Inspector will work alongside existing ministerial commitments to the Scottish Funding Council’s (SFC) Tertiary Quality Enhancement Framework (TQEF), which is being implemented from Academic Year 2024-25.

The TQEF has been co-designed, developed and implemented by the SFC in partnership with the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), Education Scotland and other stakeholders.

In order to fulfil its existing statutory responsibilities for quality assurance and enhancement of colleges and universities, the SFC commissions the QAA and Education Scotland to support this work on its behalf.

Under the Education (Scotland) Bill, the Chief Inspector will have the power to enter into an arrangement with the SFC in order to support the latter’s statutory functions.

Question reference: S6W-30979

Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 31 October 2024
Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 12 November 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, regarding the Education (Scotland) Bill and proposed inspectorate, what its position is on whether colleges are a "relevant educational establishment" or an "excepted establishment".

Excepted establishments are a subset of relevant education establishments. Both terms are defined in Section 31 of the Education (Scotland) Bill. Only some of the Chief Inspector’s powers apply to excepted establishments.

Colleges are an excepted establishment. This means that the Chief Inspector will have the power to inspect colleges that provide fundable Further Education, but only at the request of Scottish Ministers under section 30(2)(c), or by voluntary arrangement (section 32 of the Bill). This will enable the current arrangement with the Scottish Funding Council to continue.

Question reference: S6W-30646

Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 11 October 2024
Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 8 November 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what processes for monitoring and measuring outcomes it has implemented to gather evidence on the effectiveness of the delivery of its school meal debt fund.