- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will announce its plans for replacing those parts of the Schools (Scotland) Code still in force.
Answer
We announced on 9 October 2002 ourplans to phase out the extant provisions contained in the Schools (Scotland)Code, and that we intended doing so in two stages. We will consult later thisyear on the terms of the statutory instrument that will implement the repeal of the provisions identified for the second stage.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how often it anticipates using the powers it intends to take under the draft School Education (Ministerial Powers and Independent Schools) (Scotland) Bill.
Answer
We anticipate that the powerswould be used infrequently.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education follow-up inspections resulted in an unsatisfactory report in each of the last five years.
Answer
I have asked Graham Donaldson, Chief Executive of HM Inspectorate of Education (HMIE), to respond. His response is as follows:
Details of the percentage of follow up inspections that have resulted in an unsatisfactory report in each of the last five years are as follows:
| Year | Number of follow up inspections carried out | Follow up inspections resulting in an unsatisfactory report | Percentage |
| 1999-2000 | 138 | 7 | 5% |
| 2000-01 | 220 | 8 | 4% |
| 2001-02 | 205 | 10 | 5% |
| 2002-03 | 116 | 13 | 11% |
| 2003-04* | 136 | 10 | 7% |
Note: *data only available for period 1 April 2003 – 31 January 2004.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Scottish students attend university in (a) Scotland, (b) other parts of the United Kingdom, (c) other nations in what will become the European higher education area in 2010 and (d) other areas of the world.
Answer
In 2001-02, there were148,815 Scottish domiciled students attending Scottish higher educationinstitutions (HEIs), and 13,044 Scottish domiciled students attending HEIs inother areas of the United Kingdom.
The Scottish Executive holds information for Scottish students at HEIs in the UK only.Therefore information on students attending HEIs outwith the UK is notavailable.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive on how many occasions a school has been found to be non-compliant with Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education's recommendations in each year since 1997.
Answer
I have asked Graham Donaldson, Chief Executive of HM Inspectorateof Education (HMIE), to respond. His response is as follows:
HMIE do not set specificcompliance requirements as a consequence of an inspection. Where improvementsare required, they make recommendations which can often be met in a number ofways.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many initial teacher education student places were unfilled in each year since 1997.
Answer
Information on how many initial teacher education places were unfilled in each year since 1997 is shown in the table:
| 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 |
| 12 | 37 | 22 | 33 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
The majority of the unfilled places prior 2001-2002 were in BEd Music and BEd Technological Education courses. Higher education institutions have successfully increased the number of students enrolling on to these courses.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many teacher training places there have been and what funding has been provided for teacher training in each year since 1995, giving the funding figures also at 1995 prices.
Answer
The following table gives the numbers of students on teacher training courses in Scotland and levels of funding provided for these places:
| Year | Number | Funding | Funding at 95 levels |
| 1995-96 | 7,056 | £27,571,719 | £27,571,719 |
| 1996-97 | 6,782 | £26,713,276 | £26,494,990 |
| 1997-98 | 6,501 | £25,988,501 | £25,394,197 |
| 1998-99 | 6,263 | £26,652,391 | £24,508,549 |
| 1999-2000 | 6,436 | £28,055,450 | £25,087,443 |
| 2000-01 | 6,615 | £30,618,058 | £25,769,357 |
| 2001-02 | 7,176 | £33,414,495 | £27,868,746 |
| 2002-03 | 6,670 | £32,822,129 | £26,024,490 |
| 2003-04 | 6,898 | £35,252,427 | £26,888,049 |
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what consultations it has carried out on abolishing the Schools (Scotland) Code.
Answer
On 3 April 2000, we issued thedocument “Improving Our Schools – Consultation on the Schools (Scotland) Code” to key stakeholdersfor comment. On 15 October 2002, we consulted on the terms of The Schools (Scotland)Code Amendment Regulations 2003 (Statutory Instrument 2003 No. 75) used torepeal the provisions identified for the first stage of the repeal. We will beconsulting again later this year on the terms of a statutory instrument whichwill repeal the remaining regulations.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 9 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the #78 million announced in its press release SEed539/2004 on 23 February 2004 will be allocated to teacher training.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-4928 on 12 January 2004.All answers to written parliamentary questions are available from the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 8 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will meet West Lothian and North Lanarkshire councils to discuss the case for a balanced city region approach and address any problems and issues that face the substantial urban economies of the central belt.
Answer
Officials from the Enterprise,Transport and Lifelong Learning Department of the Scottish Executive met recently with representatives from North Lanarkshire and West Lothian councilsto discuss economic development and collaboration in their areas and arewilling to engage further as appropriate.
