#furthereducation — Public Fediverse posts

Students have been setting up their final major project show this week. One got me, and his other tutors bottles of wine and thank you cards today.. little charmer, very good... I know your game. It's assessment next week 😌 #Teaching #FurtherEducation #Art

https://www.europesays.com/ie/474898/ Superb talent on display at The Vision Forge in Carlow #Carlow #CarlowInstitute #course #Éire #Entertainment #film #FurtherEducation #IE #Ireland #Music #Students #TheVisionForge

Staff at Sheffield Hallam University balloting again to strike over job losses and attack on pensions

Members of the University and College Union (UCU) at Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) are being balloted for industrial…
#Sheffield #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Britain #FurtherEducation #GreatBritain #Highereducation #sheffield #SheffieldHallam #sheffielduniversity #Strike #UCU #UniversityofSheffieldInternationalCollege
https://www.europesays.com/uk/854452/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/854452/ Staff at Sheffield Hallam University balloting again to strike over job losses and attack on pensions #Britain #England #FurtherEducation #GreatBritain #HigherEducation #sheffield #SheffieldHallam #SheffieldUniversity #Strike #UCU #UK #UnitedKingdom #UniversityOfSheffieldInternationalCollege

It's my 1 year anniversary at work. I have survived my first year as an educator! Everyone who told me the first year would be tough wasn't wrong! In fact, they downplayed just how tough it is. But I'm still here, and still enjoying it when it's not immensely stressful. #Teaching #FurtherEducation #Apprenticeships #Apprentices

The long awaited follow-up to my insightful and incredibly well written blog about trying to become a teacher is up!
https://www.bone-idol.net/2025/03/09/teaching_devops_part2/

Disclaimer: may not be insightful or well written, but it is up.

#Teaching #Apprentices #Apprenticeships #GlosCol #DevOps #FurtherEducation

So, I'm finding that teaching sometimes feels like a long uphill trek, with little to no pay-off along the way. Might just be me, might just be what I'm teaching. But I'm someone that *needs* some payoff. Safe to say this is one of my least favourite bits of this job. However, I visited some of my apprentices at work last week, and they've only gone and implemented a concept I taught them about, and it's working and they're happy with it, and their manager is happy with it. Win! #DopaminePlease #Teaching #Apprentices #FurtherEducation

So, I'm finding that teaching sometimes feels like a long uphill trek, with little to no pay-off along the way. Might just be me, might just be what I'm teaching. But I'm someone that *needs* some payoff. Safe to say this is one of my least favourite bits of this job. However, I visited some of my apprentices at work last week, and they've only gone and implemented a concept I taught them about, and it's working and they're happy with it, and their manager is happy with it. Win! #DopaminePlease #Teaching #Apprentices #FurtherEducation

So, I'm finding that teaching sometimes feels like a long uphill trek, with little to no pay-off along the way. Might just be me, might just be what I'm teaching. But I'm someone that *needs* some payoff. Safe to say this is one of my least favourite bits of this job. However, I visited some of my apprentices at work last week, and they've only gone and implemented a concept I taught them about, and it's working and they're happy with it, and their manager is happy with it. Win! #DopaminePlease #Teaching #Apprentices #FurtherEducation

So, I'm finding that teaching sometimes feels like a long uphill trek, with little to no pay-off along the way. Might just be me, might just be what I'm teaching. But I'm someone that *needs* some payoff. Safe to say this is one of my least favourite bits of this job. However, I visited some of my apprentices at work last week, and they've only gone and implemented a concept I taught them about, and it's working and they're happy with it, and their manager is happy with it. Win! #DopaminePlease #Teaching #Apprentices #FurtherEducation

Empowerment für Mitarbeiter: Auf zur internen Weiterbildung! - Der Fokus der Weiterbildung hat sich mit der Digitalisierung enorm verändert: mehr als um individuelle Qualifikation geht es jetzt um Sinnhaftigkeit und Mitgestalten am Unternehmenserfolg. Gute Gründe, hier mitzuwirken und mehr zu fordern. #Digitization #FurtherEducation #SocialMedia

https://berufebilder.de/empowerment-mitarbeiter-internen-weiterbildung/

Digitale Erziehung statt Leben in der Realität: Machen Medien Dumm? - Kinder müssen spielen, dadurch lernen sie und entwickeln sich. Digitale Medien untergraben diese Entwicklung. Was können Eltern besser machen? #Communication #Creativity #Digitization #Family #FurtherEducation #Learning #ProfDrGeraldLembke #SocialMedia

https://berufebilder.de/digitale-erziehung-realitaet-medien/

Handwerksbetrieb gründen oder kaufen: Sich ohne Meister-Brief selbständig machen - In der heutigen Zeit gibt es zahlreiche Möglichkeiten, sich im Handwerk selbständig zu machen - sogar ohne Ausbildung und Meisterbrief. Das müssen Sie wissen.

Was gehört zur Gründung eines eigenen Handwerksbetriebs dazu?
#BusinessIdeas #FurtherEducation #Innovation #Mittelstand #StartUp

https://berufebilder.de/handwerksbetrieb-ohne-meisterbrief-gruenden/

Wie Auslandsemester der Karriere helfen: Rein ins Abenteuer - Immer mehr Studenten absolvieren ein Auslandssemester. Das heißt nämlich nicht nur für die Karriere etwas tun, sondern auch Abenteuer pur. Doch was muss man dabei beachten?

Bequemlichkeit oder Abenteuerlust?
#CareerChoice #FurtherEducation #Intercultural #Learning #University

https://berufebilder.de/auslandsemester-karriere-helfen-rein-abenteuer/

Berufsbild! Tagesmutter & Nanny: Kinderbetreuung professionalisieren - Fernsehformate wie die "Super-Nanny" zeigen, dass es in Deutschland ein breites Interesse am Thema Kindererziehung und Kinderbetreuung gibt. Wie sieht das Berufsbild und die Existenzgründung als Tagesmutter aus?

Die Rabenmutter-Diskussion - ein deutsches Problem? #BusinessIdeas #Coaching #Family #FurtherEducation #PedagogicsProfession #Psychology

https://berufebilder.de/berufsbild-tagesmutter-nanny-kinderbetreuung/

Vielseitig Interessiert & ernst genommen werden: Multi-Potenzial richtig verkaufen - 5 Tipps - Wer häufig den Job wechselt, gilt als unsteter Jobhopper. Viele Leute interessieren sich im Verlauf ihres Beruflebens aber für verschiedene Dinge. Hier ist das richtige Selbstmarketing gefragt. 5 Tipps.

Ein Job das ganze Leben? #Communication #EducationSystem #FurtherEducation #HighPotentials #Image #PersonalSkills #Selfness #Success

https://berufebilder.de/vielseitig-interessiert-multi-potenzial/

Gilmore Place Public School: the thread about the Rise, Fall and Renaissance of Darroch

Preamble. The schools of the “School Board” era of public education (those built 1872-1918) hold a particular fascination for me, one most profound where they have been “deconsecrated” and are either no longer in use as schools or have disappeared entirely. This thread began as a couple of lines for my own notes about the “Lost Board Schools of Edinburgh” but soon snowballed into an alphabetical deep-dive into each.

Instalment seven of the series looking at “Lost Board Schools of Edinburgh” takes us to Gilmore Place Public School; a name likely to draw blank looks from most. That’s not unsurprising as it’s a building well hidden from passing view and a moniker that lasted but twenty years. But mention Darroch School and – despite the passage of over half a century since it last closed its doors as a standalone educational institution – you will get a flicker of recognition from a certain generation of Edinburgher. Darroch’s story is not a simple one, indeed it was never just a single school and in its time has housed more than ten different schools and any number of other council functions. But if we take the time to understand its travails it offers us a neatly encapsulated case study of the ebb and flow of secondary education in the city. It is also a happy story as it has bucked the trend of “Lost Board Schools of Edinburgh” and despite repeatedly being deemed surplus to requirements it has avoided the fate of many of its contemporaries – conversion into private flats – and is now enjoying an educational and cultural renaissance.

Our subject came to be as the solution to two urgent problems facing the Edinburgh School Board at the dawn of the 20th century. Firstly in 1903 West Fountainbridge Public School had been condemned as unfit by the Scotch Education Department for the third year running and it had been found impossible to bring it up to standard. Secondly all other schools in the locality, especially Bruntsfield, were over their capacities and there were 246 children in the district on a waiting list for places. The Board decided they could kill these two birds with a single stone and set upon building a large new school for the area.

It was settled on to purchase a one acre site at the end of Gillespie Street off Gilmore Place then occupied by an engineering works whose lease was approaching expiry. The owners however demanded “an extravagant price” due to complex servitudes1 upon the land. Undeterred, the Board petitioned for a compulsory purchase order in November 1903. This was the first occasion they had taken this drastic step to acquire a site but it would take over two years of legal wrangling and two rulings at the Court of Session to conclude it. The plot ended up costing £9,000, the majority of which was compensation and legal fees for neighbours, with a further £20,000 spent on the building, fittings and furnishings.

1. In Scots property law, a Servitude is a right befitting adjacent properties over their neighbour, e.g. a use of a path, a prohibition on building a certain distance from a boundary etc. ↩︎

The plans for a large, three-storey, T-plan building in a “simple adaptation of the English Renaissance style” were completed by the the Board’s architect, John A. Carfrae. The designed capacity was 1,500 pupils but it was planned that the two-storey side wings could easily be raised to three if an increase was required. There were twenty-six classrooms with an average capacity of 56 pupils. The infant department occupied the ground floor with juveniles on the first, each being arranged around a large central hall of 49 by 40 feet in size. There were mezzanine-level galleries around the halls so that children moving between classrooms did not disturb those in the hall (a common problem in earlier schools). The second floor contained practical teaching spaces for cookery and laundry and a workshop for manual crafts.

The school opened for business on Tuesday 3rd September 1907 with the staff and roll of the closed West Fountainbridge transferring here. The formal ceremony did not take place until Saturday 30th November with the Chairman of the School Board, W. H. Mill, presiding and the Secretary of State for Scotland, the Right Hon. John Sinclair MP, as guest of honour. After various self-congratulatory speeches the assembled dignitaries retreated to the Caledonian Hotel for a celebratory and well-oiled luncheon with numerous toasts.

From the very beginning, Gilmore Place was not one but actually two different schools. During the day the Public School provided elementary education for children up to the leaving age of fourteen. But the Board was keen to maximise the return on the “large amount of educational plant” that they had built at great expense and thought it wasteful to have buildings sitting idle after pupils emptied out their gates at three o’clock. Therefore by night it became Gilmore Place Continuation School, providing evening classes for adults. Evening classes were not new, but this was the first time the Board had opted to run a large, centralised school offering a full curriculum. For the first session, 1907-08, expectations were greatly surpassed with 750 students enrolling. Such was the demand – “so great as almost to be embarrassing” in the words of the Chairman of the Board – that additional courses had to be put on over the summer. Two of the courses, millinery and cookery, were reserved for those already working in those trades and accounted for almost half the intake. These were the first explicitly vocational further education courses run by the Board in Edinburgh and the Evening News reported the confectionery course “will be of an advanced nature, and it is expected that in a year or two it will be possible for Scotsmen to do high-class work now almost exclusively done by Frenchmen“.

Life as an elementary school was short and just two decades after opening it closed in 1928 in preparation for a metamorphosis into the city’s fourth Intermediate School. Such institutions were defined by the Scotch Education Department as providing “at least a three years’ course of instruction in languages, mathematics, science and such other subjects as may from time to time be deemed suitable for pupils who, on entering, have reached the stage of attainment in elementary subjects.” The purpose of this new class of school was to centralise teaching of post-elementary age pupils (from twelve to fifteen) in dedicated schools with a higher quality of staff and teaching. These were the children who had not passed the Qually – the qualification exam sat at the age of eleven which streamed their educational future – and would otherwise have remained in elementary schools in the Advanced Divisions, working towards a fairly generic leaving certificate. As well as the general curriculum the Intermediate schools would also offer dedicated Commercial or Technical courses aimed at improving the vocational skills of children fully expected to enter the blue-collar workforce as soon as they hit leaving age.

Edinburgh opened the first of this new class of school in 1912 at Tynecastle Technical School. The First World War delayed proceedings and so the next – the James Clark School – did not follow until 1918 at which juncture the School Board was merged with that of Leith and other surrounding parishes to create the Edinburgh Education Authority. Bellevue Intermediate (now Drummond Community High School) followed in 1926 but demand far outstripped supply and another was soon needed. The school at Gilmore Place was a perfect candidate; it was large, fairly central, relatively new and at that time relatively under-subscribed. It was altered at a cost of £6,000 with the number of classrooms reduced to eighteen and the capacity reduced to 720 children. A range of new facilities were provided, including dedicated classrooms for the specialist teaching of cookery, laundry, dressmaking, science, art and manual crafts. The nucleus of the new school was made by transferring the entire Advanced Division of Bruntsfield School as well as sending children coming of age from South Morningside, Tollcross, North Merchiston and Torphicen Street schools.

While the Evening News wanted the new school to be called Merchiston Intermediate the Authority instead renamed it the Darroch Intermediate and Technical School in honour of their late chair Professor Alexander Darroch (1862-1924). Darroch had held the Bell Chair of Education at the University for over twenty years and as chair of the Edinburgh Provincial Committee for the Training of Teachers he reorganised and modernised the training of educators. He believed his contemporaries “placed too much stress in examinations and on the acquisition of knowledge for its own sake” and was a champion of offering children instead the sort of practical skills that would prepare them for their working lives and taking their place in society.

In 1939 under a further reorganisation of education in Scotland a new name was given; Darroch Junior Secondary. This was in preparation for the leaving age being raised to fifteen and the “sentence” of students being extended as a result from three to four years. At this time a flat at 5 Leamington Terrace was purchased by the Education Committee for practical use of the girls taking the Domestic Studies courses which became known as the School Flat. This remained the exclusive domain of the girls until 1969 when – in a bold experiment which was a sign of changing times – groups of six boys at a time were sent for a fortnight course in bed-making, housekeeping, shopping, cooking and sewing.

Back in 1928 when the Intermediate School was formed, the Continuation School was reconstituted into the Darroch Institute for Adults to benefit from the new facilities on offer. This had 1,300 students aged from twenty to eighty-two on its roll and as well as a full curriculum of courses offered novel subjects such as lip reading for the deaf, speech therapy for stammerers and “Everyday Law and the Home” which taught the students the legal basics of topics such as marriage, parenting, pet-owning, pensions and renting. The Evening News praised the Institute as ranking “second to none among the modern schools devoted to adult education.” In 1967 there was a major reorganisation in further education in the city in preparation for the new colleges of Napier, Stevenson and Telford opening and it was rebranded as the Darroch Adult Education Centre with its courses pivoted to being largely recreational.

One course offered by the Institute was unique in the city; the Gaelic language. It was a subject that had been taught at the Supplementary School since way back in 1908 with Gilmore Place being home to the first public tuition in the language in the city. This class had its roots in 1901 when the Celtic Union had begun offering tuition on a private basis. In 1906 they had gotten permission from the Board to use a classroom at Lothian Road Public School with a tacit agreement that should they prove successful they would become part of the Evening School offering in the city.

The tutors were the Rev. G. R. Maclennan of St Oran’s Gaelic Church, Peter Thomson and J. White Maclean, secretary of the Gaelic Union in Edinburgh. In addition, specific classes in Gaelic singing and the theory of Gaelic music were given by Neil Orr, conductor of the Edinburgh Gaelic Choir. The Oban Times would write:

“It is to be hoped… that as many pupils will enrol as possible to ensure a continuation of Gaelic being recognised as worthy of a place in the curriculum of the Edinburgh evenings schools.”

Oban Times and Argyllshire Advertiser, 2nd October 1909

These classes were intended for the “interest of the Lowland Gaels in their mother tongue” and would later come under the tutilage of Calum Johnston. Johnston had come to Edinburgh aged 16 to train as a draughtsman with the firm of Bruce Peebles & Co. and for twenty-seven years would also teach his native language to the city. A lauded singer and piper he retired to his native Barra in 1956, the Stornoway Gazette writing that they were “sure that if any mortal is privileged in this Atomic Age to see the fabled isle of Roca Barraidh towards the setting sun, then Calum will be that one.” (In Gaelic mythology, Roca Barraidh is an island that will be visible to the west of the Hebrides only three times, the third and final heralding the end of the world.) In 1972, then aged eighty-two, Calum stood on the beach in his kilt in the December wind and rain to pipe ashore the body of Compton Mackenzie, author of Whisky Galore, which was being brought to the island where he lived for a decade for burial. He piped the procession up the 200 yard hill to the burial ground, stood to attention during the short ceremony before collapsing at the graveside and dying minutes afterwards.

On leaving Edinburgh, Johnston was replaced by Bh-uas Murdag Nic Choinnich (Miss Murdina Mackenzie) who became the only Gaelic teacher on the payroll of the city. The classes were in peril however and were withdrawn in 1958 following dwindling attendance; indeed they were suspended each session after Johnston retired due to a lack of students, thus ending a half-century association between the school at Gillespie Street and the Gaelic Language. (For now…)

Darroch remained open throughout World War two and a noted pupil at this time was one Thomas (Sean) Connery, who completed his time in education there between 1942-44. A reluctant pupil, his teachers branded him “very average – not at all brilliant” and he was apparently voted by his classmates as the boy “most unlikely to succeed“. Post-war it continued as a Junior Secondary with an average roll in 1945 of 550. Despite a long-term decline in Edinburgh’s urban population at this time its roll actually climbed beyond 600 due to the leaving age being raised to fifteen in 1947.

In 1960 it became one of the pilot schools ahead of the introduction of the new Modern Studies subject to Scottish secondary education in 1962. This gave pupils the opportunity to learn about TV, advertising, the press, citizenship and politics to equip them with “some knowledge of the complexities of the ever-changing contemporary world“. On Monday 22nd June 1970, the boys of Darroch set a world record for non-stop five-a-side football at the ground of North Merchiston Boy’s Club: they had passed the previous record of 13 hours and 7 minutes and at the time the story went to print were still playing.

But, new courses and football achievements aside, all was not well at Darroch. A letter to the Evening News in 1968 outlined the situation:

This conglomeration of old buildings is a disgrace to the town; and, to all appearance, a death-trap should an outbreak of fire take place on the ground floor.

The teachers are to be admired for their tolerance and consideration in taking a post in such a place because the pupils are not and cannot be expected to be proud of such a school

J.M. Morningside. A letter to the Evening News, 4th July 1968

In 1969 the school was publicly criticised by Councillor Robert Knox, chairman of the Education Committee, who acknowledged that its facilities were outdated and inadequate and that it required replacement. Knox, a Progressive, was criticised by his Labour Party opposite number for having presided over new schools for the fee paying all-boys Royal High School and James Gillespie’s School for Girls despite “in neither case was the need as great as Darroch“. The Scotsman printed a large investigative spread on the subject under the banner headline “The trouble with Darroch“.

Adjectives spring to mind – all derogatory. Bleak, barrack-like, looming. Inside, the school is no better: the corridors are furnished like a public lavatory, all white tiles and nasty green paint; the classrooms are unappealing, dingy and dark, with windows placed high up on the walls so that no pupil can be distracted by what is going on outside… Darroch Secondary School was built in the early 19000s and still has to suffer the educational norms of that time.

“The Trouble with Darroch”. Lindsay Mackie, investigation for the Scotsman, 8th march 1969

A teacher at this time at the school was the former Green MSP Robin Harper, who recalls his spell there from 1970 to 1972 in his autobiography “Dear Mr Harper: Britain’s First Green Parliamentarian.”

On my first day at Darroch a spokesman for a group of young teachers warned me: ‘Robin, this place is sheer hell. The kids never stop fighting. Any of them who show any academic ability are creamed off to Boroughmuir. Those who remain are an aggressive mix of children rejected by the system.

One school parent was the lawyer and author of contemporary history John G. Gray (seen alongside the headline of the Scotsman article). On learning his daughter was to be sent to Darroch due to a lack of capacity at nearby Boroughmuir, he was so taken aback by the state of the place that he wrote a pamphlet denouncing the condition of the place and the socially segregated state of secondary education in the capital in general.

As Edinburgh Citizens, we have allowed ourselves to become subject to a particularly vicious type of blackmail. Either our children secure a place at a top state school like Boroughmuir or we are offered a secondary course in such appalling conditions that sensitive parents prefer to educate their children privately at fees which many of them can ill afford.

John G. Gray, Focus on Darroch

Rather than simply pull his child out of the school and join his social peers in privately educating her, Gray instead took the Corporation to task; they did not care or “to put it vulgarly but accurately, give a damn“. He contended that they were happy with this state of affairs in the city whereby 45 percent of children went to a fee-paying secondary school. He noted that the conditions at school’s like Darroch were largely ignored by the authorities and the press until middle-class parents like himself began to complain. He publicly challenged the city’s Director of Education to produce a signed statement that the facilities at such Junior Secondaries were adequate: a call that did not elicit a response.

The list of charges against the school went on. Despite being built for 1,500 and having a declining roll of only around a third of that, it was cramped by modern standards, with numerous “temporary” wooden huts in the playground to provide additional teaching spaces. Its toilets were outside and “so revolting that children refuse to use them“, the gymnasium was tiny and had no changing or showering facilities, the playground was “minute” and it had no playing fields; children had to travel half an hour to Meggetland for games and sports. Its students tolerate a lot, but for them the straw that broke the camel’s back was the state of their school dinners. Matters came to a head in 1971 when the Head Boy, Andrew Ewing, wrote an angry letter to the editor of the Scotsman complaining about the state of affairs. As the school had no cooking facilities of its own, its meals had to be brought in by a lorry and were cold by the time they were served. It also had no dining facilities, instead students had to collect their lunch trays from a corridor floor and eat the unpalatable, cabbagey contents in classrooms. One such space was a science laboratory where the would pushed around escaped droplets of liquid mercury on the worktops with their cutlery in-between mouthfuls of cold custard.

With the increase in dining charges I hoped that the standard of dinners would improve. But the custard is cold. It is also watery, lumpy, lukewarm or inedible

Andrew Ewing, Letter to the Scotsman, May 1971

But rather than reprimand him for stepping out of line, Darroch’s headmaster – Dr William Gray – praised his student for putting into practice what he had learned in the new subject of Modern Studies. He confirmed to the Scotsman that the school had been serving dinner in this manner since 1946 but that a temporary dining hall would finally be opened later in the year to put an end to the practice. As John G. Gray put it, Darroch had “an excellent headmaster” in William Gray (no relation), one that did not believe that it was just the buildings that made a school “good” or “bad”. Writing in defence of his students, he cited a first year boy who when asked to write an essay on what he thought of his school wrote: “Darroch may be a slum, but when you are inside it is not half bad; I admit it is not fur-lined, but it is the teachers that count… Maybe it is a bit ragged, but it is the best school in Scotland“.

Headmaster Gray knew that the facilities at his school were badly lacking and that the authorities imagined his job was largely one of babysitting reluctant teenagers before they could enter “humdrum jobs” in the workforce as soon as they hit aged fifteen. But he was not content to accept this and made strenuous and praiseworthy efforts to provide better outcomes for his students. After taking up his position in 1964 he pushed for an early introduction of the new Ordinary Grade qualification into Darroch – something not all Junior Secondaries were afforded. He made sure the most successful students were allowed to stay on for a fifth year beyond the leaving age to sit the Higher Certificate – a privilege usually reserved for those streamed into the High Schools, which in Edinburgh charged fees. This gave students the chance to escape their planned futures in the rapidly disappearing “humdrum jobs” by opening up a wide range of employment and educational opportunities to them and also meant that students showing academic potential were not simply “creamed off” to other schools. His faith in his charges was well placed and by 1971 three-quarters of students of the age wanted to sit the O-Grade and there were 101 staying on beyond the age of fourteen, up 246% since Gray took charge.

Despite all these efforts, after 1970 the school’s roll began to sharply decline; dropping by almost 100 in a year. The Corporation saw an opportunity to dispose of the troublesome school on the cheap and made a proposal to merge Darroch with the James Clark School in St Leonard’s, which faced a similar issue of demographic pressures, a poor reputation and ageing facilities. But rather than spend any money on new facilities, they intended to simply move the combined school into an even older building, that of “Old” James Gillespie’s School, which had first been built in 1904. This rightly provoked anger amongst parents; if old Gillespie’s had superior facilities to Darroch then why had they prioritised a new building for the fee-paying, selective Gillespie’s High School for Girls to allow them to leave it. They knew their question was rhetorical.

These merger plans were put on hold until the outcome of the General Election that year was known and instead on December 14th 1970, the Education Committee voted to re-organise secondary education in Edinburgh to a fully comprehensive system “to end the unhappy segregation of children at the age of 12 into two distinct ability classes” and in preparation for the school leaving age being raised to sixteen in 1972. The end came swiftly for most of the old Junior Secondaries, dubbed as “dull, dingy, semi-slum schools” by the editor of the Scotsman, and in 1972 it was not just Darroch and James Clark but also Norton Park and David Kilpatrick in Leith that were unceremoniously closed. Darroch’s pupils merged into the newly co-educational, comprehensive James Gillespie’s High School at Marchmont in its brand new campus. Both the newly vacant Darroch building and – ironically Old Gillespie’s – became overspill annexes for Boroughmuir High which had rapidly expanded beyond the capacity of its building with the comprehensive move.

Concurrent with this the school’s adult education role was rapidly run down and by 1973 it was offering only ballroom dancing, dressmaking, embroidery and flower arranging. The deckchairs of secondary schooling in central Edinburgh continued to be shuffled around over the next few years as the comprehensive schools established themselves and the population continued to decline. By 1976 things had changed again and Darroch now become an annexe for James Gillespie’s, the school to which its former pupils had been moved to just 4 years previously!

Darroch remained occupied by Gillespie’s until 1989 after which a building programme at the main campus allowed it to be consolidated there and close its annexes. Once again it became a school without a purpose but this situation did not last long. In 1990 Lothain Regional Council sold the Dean Education Centre (previously the Dean Orphanage and later Dean College) and former St Bernard’s School in Stockbridge which made their Advisory Service – training for in-service teachers – homeless. They were therefore transferred to Darroch but couldn’t hope to fill such a large building and so it would become something of a dumping ground for various council departments including a base for teaching English as a second language, administrative offices for the city’s adult and vocational education programmes, storing excess classroom furniture and serving as a mail-order warehouse for souvenir merchandise for the centennial celebrations of the Forth Bridge!

The Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994 saw Lothian Region replaced by a new unitary authority – the City of Edinburgh Council – in 1996 and with the transfer of education functions from the old authority to its new successors, once again a big question mark was placed over Darroch’s purpose and future. Perhaps it too may have ended up being converted to expensive flats had a pressing need for its services not arisen just a few years later. In 1998 the collapse of a staircase at nearby St Thomas of Aquin’s R. C. High School at Lauriston highlighted the perilous state of repair of that school. It was quickly condemned and hurriedly decanted to Darroch until 2002 while it was demolished and completely rebuilt. Once again Darroch was the right building in the right place at the right time and once again its corridors resounded to the sound of children’s feet and its classrooms to the refrains of teaching. After another spell of vacancy, between 2013 and 2016 it was James Gillespie’s turn to decant back to Darroch while the “New Gillespie’s” school on Lauderdale Street in Marchmont was itself demolished and rebuilt.

Once again quiet and vacant, in an effort to save money the council then turned the heating off, leading to a rapid decline in the fabric of the building but typical of the short-sighted, disjointed thinking of local authorities they had also left the place partially furnished and so were paying over £40,000 per annum in Non-Domestic Rates! Fortunately positive plans were afoot for Darroch’s future as a second dedicated Gaelic Medium Education (GME) school for the city. This would follow on from the success of Bun-sgoil Taobh na Pàirce which had opened at the former Bonnington Road Public School in Leith in 2013 and which had quickly grown to capacity. Fittingly, in the early 1990s the office of the small team who brought the city’s first GME unit at Tollcross Primary to fruition had been based in Darroch. These plans would both return primary education to the school after a break of almost a century and also the teaching of the Gaelic language after a break of sixty years.

These plans fell through due to a combination of factors including the difficulty in recruiting and retaining sufficient Gaelic-fluent teachers to meet demand and the complete inability of the council to provide a satisfactory solution for GME secondary education – which was being delivered from Àrd-sgoil Sheumais Ghilleasbuig; James Gillespie’s. This setback however was perhaps a blessing in disguise as it allowed a quiet reset of the council’s GME secondary plans which were at the time being driven by a lack of capacity at Gillespie’s, the new showpiece school that completed in 2016 having been built too small. A ten million pound investment brought the schools facilities and accessibility into the 21st century – many of these changes directly addressed the shortcoming first highlighted back in the late 1960s, such as an accessible new entrance, bright and modern interiors and a dedicated dining hall.

The school re-opened in 2022 as Ath-Thaigh Darroch – Darroch Annexe – housing much of Gillespie’s GME teaching as well as providing dedicated study spaces for older students preparing for exams. The building also houses a number of Gaelic language cultural institutions in the city and has “has quickly become the heart of the Gaelic-speaking community in the city.”

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#Education #ShowerThought I've been going through the new Post-16 education and skills whitepaper and for all the potentially intelligent analysis I could offer I'm just left thinking, 'with all the recent coverage introducing 'V Levels' so that folk are encouraged to think about 'V-A-T Levels', seems like a bit of a marketing mis-step?!'

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68f518ee06e6515f7914c7ce/Post-16_Education_and_Skills_white_paper_Accessible_Version.pdf

#Skills #Apprenticeships #HigherEducation #FurtherEducation #Government #UK #Training

“From the Three R’s to Transistors”: the thread about Dean Public School

Preamble. The schools of the “School Board” era of public education (1872-1918) hold a particular fascination for me, one most profound where they have been “deconsecrated” and are either no longer in use as schools or have disappeared entirely. This thread began as a couple of lines for my own notes about the “Lost Board Schools of Edinburgh” but soon snowballed into an alphabetical deep-dive into each.

Part six of the series of posts looking at “Lost Board Schools of Edinburgh” pays a visit to the former Dean Public School. Judging by the crowds of tourists on phones who gather daily in crowds outside, this must be one of the most Instagrammed of schools. I wonder how many stop for a moment to consider its history and its claim to a unique first in the story of education in the city. So let us take a moment for ourselves to do just that.

Following the Education (Scotland) Act 1872 (which made schooling compulsory in Scotland between the ages of 5 and 13) the newly elected School Boards undertook a flurry of construction to rationalise, modernise and expand the existing provision. At its formation in 1873 the Edinburgh School Board (ESB) took stock of the situation it had inherited in the city and found there were almost twenty-two thousand pupils being taught in one hundred schools, with the majority run by the various churches. Unsurprisingly the Presbyterians dominated, educating forty-three percent of scholars.

In 1873 the Board held a survey of teachers in the city to help prioritise where new schools should be built and the following year held a competition to find architects for its first batch of seven purpose-built schools; Bristo, Causewayside, Leith Walk, North Canongate, Stockbridge, West Fountainbridge and the Water of Leith Village*. The work was divided between the successful applicants, that for the Water of Leith was awarded to Robert Wilson, who would later become the Board’s house architect.

* = The naming and jurisdiction of this school is somewhat confusing. While the area today is widely known as the Dean Village, well into the 20th century it was always known as Water of Leith village. “Dean” referred instead to the old Village of Dean slightly to the north. Both Water of Leith and Dean villages were in the Edinburgh School Board catchment and while the new school was in the former village it was christened Dean Public School at opening. This was most probably in recognition that it served the Dean quoad sacra Parish (an ecclesiastical division, but not a municipal one). To add further confusion, until 1895 there was also a separate St Cuthbert’s and Dean School Board. This covered the western hinterland outwith the city’s municipal boundaries as they then stood and was responsible for schools such as Gorgie, Roseburn, and South Morningside (extension of the city boundary in 1882 meant that the former two schools were actually now in Edinburgh but served by the St Cuthbert’s and Dean Board!)

Perhaps because it was the smallest, the Dean Public School was the first of the batch to complete. The opening took place on Wednesday December 8th 1875 making it the first purpose-built school by the Board in the city. The Scotsman reported that at two o’clock, the 150 children of the older division were assembled in the upper classroom in front of the Board and “a large number of gentlemen interested in the work“, including Lord Provost James Falshaw, James Cowan the MP for Edinburgh and numerous town councillors. Following the singing of a psalm and a prayer led by the Rev. Whyte of Free St George’s Church, the Lord Provost gave an opening address and observed that “it was to him a most gratifying circumstance that an auspicious event like the present had occurred during his term of office.”

The Chairman of the Board, Professor Henry Calderwood, mentioned that at this time they had 7,386 children in public education at the nineteen schools under their charge but that most of these were small and overcrowded and there was much work ahead to provide purpose-built accommodation for them. Thanks were given to the kirk session of Dean Free Church for allowing the continued use of their schoolhouse since the 1872 act before the new school was ready.

The new school was arranged over two storeys with accommodation for 400 children (using a formula of 10 square feet of space per child). The infants were accommodated on the ground floor and the older children upstairs, each level having a principal large school room (57ft by 23ft, or 17m by 7m) which could be divided by movable glass partitions, as well as smaller classrooms. There were separate entrances for boys on one side and girls and infants on the other, with the playgrounds being similarly segregated. The total cost was £5,740 5s 2d; £1,030 9s 9d for the site and £4,709 15s 5d for the construction work.

As early as 1878, in a report to the School Board the Inspector complained of overcrowding and a lack of writing desks in the school (those available were sufficient for only 1/3 of the children). This had “spoiled the writing, wasted time in the classes and has prevented the highest discipline grant through the copying traceable to over-crowding“. Failure to remedy these defects would result in the school’s government grant being cut. The school roll at this time was 311, with 200 children qualifying for the Examination in Standard – but the pass rates in these qualifications of 82% for Reading, 84% for Writing and 71% for Arithmetic were the lowest in the School Board. Headmaster Waddell was however praised for his organisation and discipline and the infant department was “in many respects a model one“.

The lack of accommodation was remedied in 1888 with a 3-storey extension for 132 additional children added to the rear, comprising a play-room, a sewing room and an infant classroom. The space beneath was left open and served as a covered part of the playground.

When education was made free of charge in 1889 (the 1872 act had introduced fees, although assistance could be provided by the Parish Poor Boards for those who could not afford them), the headmaster at Dean wrote to the School Board to say that the hoped for improvement in attendance rates had not materialised within his district and that “the parents who before were indifferent, are now equally or more so“. In 1894, 120 children were sent to the school from the nearby Dean Orphanage, being reported as “perfect models of cleanliness and order” by the Scotsman and commended in the Evening News for making the school football eleven “a combination to be feared and respected“. They were moved to the new Flora Stevenson School in Comely Bank when it opened in 1901, before being moved back to Dean in 1913 when the new Parish Children’s Home on Crewe Road opened, putting pressure on capacity at Flora’s when there were 115 vacant places at Dean School.

With no playing fields or local park to call its own, the school sports days were held at Warriston Playing Fields. In June 1912 the Edinburgh Evening News reported that the pupils from Dean – for the first time in the history of the ESB – had performed mass dancing as part of the day. One hundred and sixty pupils danced “with great zest… danc[ed] a reel to the music of the pipes.”

In December 1914, the staff of the school contributed £1 4s 6t to the Edinburgh Belgian Relief Fund. The following year Robert Peter Smith, assistant teacher, was wounded during at the Dardanelles when serving as a lieutenant with the 1/4th King’s Own Scottish Borderers.

In 1939 the school was requisition by the War Office and temporarily relocated “for the duration” to the St Mary’s Cathedral Mission Hall on Bell’s Brae, the ancient convening house of the Incorporation of Baxters (bakers) of Edinburgh. It was returned to educational use and in 1953 was placed under the charge of Dorothy Edmond. The new headmistress was determined to raise the school’s profile and instituted a uniform, having a school badge specially commissioned for the blazers.

She rallied parents together and asked for support financially. Although it would not be a lot, it was a lot to some folks and it caused some controversy… Miss Edmund was strict and eventually was held in high regard by both parents and children.

Recollection by pupil Kathleen Glancy of Dorothy Edmond. Via Edinburgh Collected.

But not even the determination of Miss Edmond could counter the significant long term depopulation in the neighbourhood, the result of much of the housing stock being decrepit and condemned combined with the decline of the remaining traditional industries of milling and tanning. In January 1961 the school closed, its roll having reduced to just 37 pupils, less than 10% of capacity. Those remaining were transferred to Flora Stevenson’s and the empty building was leased to the defence electronics company Ferranti Ltd. of Crewe Toll for a period of seven years as a training centre for apprentices and assembly line staff. The Evening News felt it an appropriate symbol of the city’s growing demand for specialist technical education that its oldest public school should have made the transition “from the Three R’s to transistors“.

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Ferranti did not require the two basement rooms and these were given over to the use of the Edinburgh Union of Boys Clubs as a base for an outdoor education scheme, the Adventure Centre for Use. A number of Ferranti staff were involved in this, including the works’ own Mountain Climbing Adventure Group for its younger employees. This provided equipment and specialist training to established clubs in activities such as climbing, mountaineering, canoeing and dingy sailing. After Ferranti’s lease was up, in 1969 the school became an annexe to Telford College, whose domestic courses were based nearby at the Dean Education Centre, the former Dean Orphanage.

In May 1984 the school was disposed of on the open market (offers over £100,000) by Lothian Regional Council and was converted into flats in 1986 by James Potter Developments. Eighteen two, three and four-bedroom properties were created which would have cost between £39,000 and £55,000 when completed.

The previous instalment in this series looked at the Davie Street School(s) in the Southside. The next looks at Gilmore Place Public School.

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Weiterbildungsfinanzierung: Ein Dschungel der Möglichkeiten - Weiterbildungen liegen auch 2013 noch im Trend. Ob gerade fertig studiert, arbeitssuchend oder mit beiden Beinen im Berufsleben, es wird von jedem gefordert sich weiterzubilden. Doch Weiterbildungen kosten Geld. Wie sie finanzieren? #FurtherEducation #PersonalSkills

https://berufebilder.de/weiterbildungsfinanzierung-dschungel-moeglichkeiten/

I done a blog post, for the first time in forever. https://www.bone-idol.net/2025/09/17/teaching_devops/. I'm teaching a small cohort of DevOps apprentices, and while planning their second year out (my first full year of teaching), I saw a glittering pathway to DevOps excellence unfurl before me. Or it's hilariously misguided pedagogical foolishness. Who knows?! But at least people can see me try this out in real time. Part 2 will be coming soon as things are already changing after just one session with the students. #Teaching #Education #FurtherEducation #Apprentices #DevOps #Blog

Wie Auslandsemester der Karriere helfen: Rein ins Abenteuer - Immer mehr Studenten absolvieren ein Auslandssemester. Das heißt nämlich nicht nur für die Karriere etwas tun, sondern auch Abenteuer pur. Doch was muss man dabei beachten?

Bequemlichkeit oder Abenteuerlust? #CareerChoice #FurtherEducation #Intercultural #Learning #University

https://berufebilder.de/auslandsemester-karriere-helfen-rein-abenteuer/

Berufsbild! Tagesmutter & Nanny: Kinderbetreuung professionalisieren - Fernsehformate wie die "Super-Nanny" zeigen, dass es in Deutschland ein breites Interesse am Thema Kindererziehung und Kinderbetreuung gibt. Wie sieht das Berufsbild und die Existenzgründung als Tagesmutter aus?

Die Rabenmutter-Diskussion - ein deutsches Problem? #BusinessIdeas #Coaching #Family #FurtherEducation #PedagogicsProfession #Psychology

https://berufebilder.de/berufsbild-tagesmutter-nanny-kinderbetreuung/

Vielseitig Interessiert & ernst genommen werden: Multi-Potenzial richtig verkaufen - 5 Tipps - Wer häufig den Job wechselt, gilt als unsteter Jobhopper. Viele Leute interessieren sich im Verlauf ihres Beruflebens aber für verschiedene Dinge. Hier ist das richtige Selbstmarketing gefragt. 5 Tipps.

Ein Job das ganze Leben? #Communication #EducationSystem #FurtherEducation #HighPotentials #Image #PersonalSkills #Selfness #Success

https://berufebilder.de/vielseitig-interessiert-multi-potenzial/

Vielseitig Interessiert & ernst genommen werden: Multi-Potenzial richtig verkaufen - 5 Tipps - Wer häufig den Job wechselt, gilt als unsteter Jobhopper. Viele Leute interessieren sich im Verlauf ihres Beruflebens aber für verschiedene Dinge. Hier ist das richtige Selbstmarketing gefragt. 5 Tipps.

Ein Job das ganze Leben? #Communication #EducationSystem #FurtherEducation #HighPotentials #Image #PersonalSkills #Selfness #Success

https://berufebilder.de/vielseitig-interessiert-multi-potenzial/

Weiterbildung & Fitness im Alter: Warum sich eine Umschulung lohnt - Eine Umschulung oder berufliche Weiterbildung ist immer sinnvoll, egal in welchem Alter. Entscheidend ist die richtige Einstellung.

Warum sich Lernen im Alter lohnt

Im Beruf unterläuft dem älteren Kollegen ein Fehler und die Schuld wird leicht auf das Alter geschoben. #CareerManagement #CorporateHealth #FurtherEducation #ProAging

https://berufebilder.de/weiterbildung-fitness-alter-umschulung/

Digitale Manipulation durch Quantified Self: Es fängt schon bei den Kindern an - Die Quantified-Self-Bewegung findet weltweit immer mehr Anhänger. Kein Wunder, wenn bereits Kinder für diesen Trend begeistert werden. Ein krasses Beispiel dafür habe ich Estland gefunden. #Communication #Digitization #EducationSystem #FurtherEducation #Intelligence #Marketing #Psychology #TimeManagement

https://berufebilder.de/digitale-manipulation-quantified-self/

eLearning Hochschule & Weiterbildung: 10 Tipps für digitales vernetztes Studieren - eLearning ist in aller Munde. Doch nicht nur die Arbeitswelt, sondern das Studium wird heute weitestgehend online organisiert. Welche Vorkenntnisse müssen Studierende bereits mitbringen? #Digitization #EducationSystem #FurtherEducation #SocialMedia #University

https://berufebilder.de/elearning-hochschule-weiterbildung-digital/

New Work, Digitalisierung & Kompetenzmessung: Selbstdarsteller vor? - Im digitalen Welt sind neue Fähigkeiten gefragt. Doch wie stellt man diese Kompetenzen fest, ohne auf Selbstdarsteller hereinzufallen? #Creativity #FurtherEducation #HighPotentials #Learning #Negotiation #PersonalSkills #SocialMedia #Workplace

https://berufebilder.de/new-work-digitalisierung-kompetenzmessung/

Berufsbild! & Karriere in der Fitness-Branche: 6 Top-Jobs zwischen Muskelaufbau & Kräuterbad - Wer im Fitnessbereich tätig wird, muss nicht unbedingt Personal Trainer:in oder Ernährungsberater:in werden. #Agile #CorporateHealth #FurtherEducation #HealthProfession #Relax #Selfness #Sport #TourismProfession

https://berufebilder.de/top-jobs-fitness-branche/

Berufsbild! & Karriere in der Fitness-Branche: 6 Top-Jobs zwischen Muskelaufbau & Kräuterbad - Wer im Fitnessbereich tätig wird, muss nicht unbedingt Personal Trainer:in oder Ernährungsberater:in werden. #Agile #CorporateHealth #FurtherEducation #HealthProfession #Relax #Selfness #Sport #TourismProfession

https://berufebilder.de/top-jobs-fitness-branche/

Berufsbild! & Karriere in der Fitness-Branche: 6 Top-Jobs zwischen Muskelaufbau & Kräuterbad - Wer im Fitnessbereich tätig wird, muss nicht unbedingt Personal Trainer:in oder Ernährungsberater:in werden. #Agile #CorporateHealth #FurtherEducation #HealthProfession #Relax #Selfness #Sport #TourismProfession

https://berufebilder.de/top-jobs-fitness-branche/

Berufsbild! & Karriere in der Fitness-Branche: 6 Top-Jobs zwischen Muskelaufbau & Kräuterbad - Wer im Fitnessbereich tätig wird, muss nicht unbedingt Personal Trainer:in oder Ernährungsberater:in werden. #Agile #CorporateHealth #FurtherEducation #HealthProfession #Relax #Selfness #Sport #TourismProfession

https://berufebilder.de/top-jobs-fitness-branche/

Berufsbild! Digital Communication Manager: Aufgaben & Rolle im Unternehmen - Die Digitalisierung hält Einzug in Unternehmen und mit ihr entstehen auch neue Berufsbilder rund um das Thema digitale Kommunikation. #FurtherEducation #MediaProfession #Networking #SocialMedia

https://berufebilder.de/digital-communication-manager-unternehmen/

Reich werden: Wie wichtig ist finanzielle Bildung? - Bildung ist wichtiger als jemals zuvor, denn die Dinge werden sich schneller verändern, als wir es je zuvor erlebt haben. #Authenticity #Finance #FurtherEducation #Negotiation #PersonalSkills #RobertTKiyosaki #Salary #Sales

https://berufebilder.de/reich-werden-finanzielle-bildung/

New Work, Digitalisierung & Jobsuche: Mensch statt Abschluss? - New Work, Automatisierung, Digitalisierung: Die Strukturen unserer Arbeitswelt sind im Umbruch. Ergebnis sind neue Arbeitsformen und wechselhafte Erwerbsbiografien, die Chancen und Risiken bieten. Aber auch die Bildung muss sich verändern.
#FurtherEducation #HighPotentials #Learning #SocialMedia #Workplace

https://berufebilder.de/new-work-digitalisierung-jobsuche/

Passende Mitarbeiter als Imageproblem? Macht Euch die Fachkräfte einfach selbst! - In Branche wie IT oder auch Sozialberufen klagen Unternehmen über Fachkräftemangel. Doch der ist zum Teil hausgemacht, z.B. durch ein schlechtes Image. Was tun? #EmployerBranding #FurtherEducation #HealthProfession #HighPotentials #Image #Recruiting

https://berufebilder.de/passende-mitarbeiter-imageproblem-fachkraefte/

As we launch our 2024 election manifesto, we urge the next government to replace Ofsted inspections, make employers pay towards to the costs of building a skilled workforce, and help improve the pay and conditions of further and higher education workers.

https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/13619/UCU-manifesto-calls-for-employers-to-help-fund-education?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social&campaign=GE2024

#UCU #HigherEducation #FurtherEducation #PrisonEducation AdultEducation

Members of UCU at Barking and Dagenham College will be out in force tomorrow rallying to protest against management's refusal to improve staff working conditions.

As well as a properly negotiated pay increase, members are calling for management to agree action to tackle workplace stress.

https://www.ucu.org.uk/article/13555/Staff-to-hold-rally-outside-Barking-and-Dagenham-College-in-protest-against-managements-failure-to-improve-the-working-lives-of-staff?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social&campaign=RespectFE

#UCU #UKFE #FurtherEducation #WorkplaceStress #RespectFE

New Work, Digitalisierung & Jobsuche: Mensch statt Abschluss? - New Work, Automatisierung, Digitalisierung: Die Strukturen unserer Arbeitswelt sind im Umbruch. Ergebnis sind neue Arbeitsformen und wechselhafte Erwerbsbiografien, die Chancen und Risiken bieten. Aber auch die Bildung muss sich verändern. #FurtherEducation #HighPotentials #Learning #SocialMedia #Workplace

https://berufebilder.de/new-work-digitalisierung-jobsuche/

Passende Mitarbeiter als Imageproblem? Macht Euch die Fachkräfte einfach selbst! - In Branche wie IT oder auch Sozialberufen klagen Unternehmen über Fachkräftemangel. Doch der ist zum Teil hausgemacht, z.B. durch ein schlechtes Image. Was tun? #EmployerBranding #FurtherEducation #HealthProfession #HighPotentials #Image #Recruiting

https://berufebilder.de/passende-mitarbeiter-imageproblem-fachkraefte/

The #Tories have sucked the joy from the #EducationSystem. Here are three ways #Labour can bring it back

#KeirStarmer should revitalise #SureStart, focus on Children's happiness – and give a crucial boost to #FurtherEducation
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/29/tories-education-system-labour-keir-starmer-sure-start-further-education
#AlternativesToToryPolicies
#Education

Betriebswirt: IHK-Weiterbildung, Studium, Gehalt, Berufsbild! - Wer ein Studium oder eine IHK-Weiterbildung zum Betriebswirt absolviert, dem winken ein gutes Gehalt und viele Chancen. Die wichtigsten Fakten:

Welche Vorteile bietet ein Studium oder eine IHK-Weiterbildung zum Betriebswirt?

Lebenslanges Lernen ist der Schlüssel zum beruflichen Erfolg. #eCommerce #EconomyProfession #FurtherEducation #University

https://berufebilder.de/betriebswirt-ihk-weiterbildung-gehalt/

Why is the government wrecking its own reforms to technical education?

#Tlevels #btec #apprenticeships #furthereducation

https://wonkhe.com/blogs/why-is-the-government-wrecking-its-own-reforms-to-technical-education-2/

The targeted action is the latest step in a national industrial action campaign in a long-running dispute over pay and job security. The action will ...

Lecturers in three Scottish colleges will start three days of targeted strike action, in colleges based in the constituencies of key Scottish Government decision makers.#FELA #FE #FurtherEducation #ScottishGovernment #Colleges #Lecturers #targetedaction #strike #industrialaction #pay #dispute
Lecturers Commence Targeted Strike Action in Constituency Areas of Key Scot Govt Ministers

The targeted action is the latest step in a national industrial action campaign in a long-running dispute over pay and job security. The action will ...

Lecturers in three Scottish colleges will start three days of targeted strike action, in colleges based in the constituencies of key Scottish Government decision makers.#FELA #FE #FurtherEducation #ScottishGovernment #Colleges #Lecturers #targetedaction #strike #industrialaction #pay #dispute
Lecturers Commence Targeted Strike Action in Constituency Areas of Key Scot Govt Ministers

Without an acceptable and fully funded offer, the EIS-FELA membership will escalate their industrial action campaign to include national and rolling ...

The EIS has called on the Scottish Government and College Employers Scotland to take definitive action to ensure that college lecturers receive a fair and fully funded pay award.#FELA #FE #FurtherEducation #Strike #IndustrialAction #pay #ScottishGovernment #CollegeEmployersScotland #Colleges #Lecturers
EIS Calls on Scot Govt & College Employers Scotland to Act Now to Avert Strike Action

Without an acceptable and fully funded offer, the EIS-FELA membership will escalate their industrial action campaign to include national and rolling ...

The EIS has called on the Scottish Government and College Employers Scotland to take definitive action to ensure that college lecturers receive a fair and fully funded pay award.#FELA #FE #FurtherEducation #Strike #IndustrialAction #pay #ScottishGovernment #CollegeEmployersScotland #Colleges #Lecturers
EIS Calls on Scot Govt & College Employers Scotland to Act Now to Avert Strike Action

Worked on this beautiful Poodle today for my #DogGrooming course. He was so intelligent and very cooperative. He helped me get a Distinction for my first assessed practical! #AdultEducation #LifeLongLearning #FurtherEducation #Skills #Training #CareerChange #NeverTooLateToLearn #Dogs #dogsofmastodon