2010 Schools Act: solution for recovery from the Wick determination

There are two immediate consequences to Scottish Ministers’ determination of Highland Council’s Continue reading

2010 Schools Act: Hillhead School, Scottish Ministers’ Wick Determination and the cost of justice

Two primary schools in Wick in Caithness – Hillhead and Wick North, were joined in a single closure proposal paper Continue reading

No remission of anger at meeting with Rural Education Commission

On a truly awful night of driving rain, the meeting of the Commission on the Delivery of Rural Education Continue reading

Cabinet Secretary’s unconvincing response on current status of 2010 Schools Act

Responding to our article yesterday: 2010 Schools Act now a charter to close rural schools, Cabinet Secretary Continue reading

2010 School’s Act now a charter to close rural schools

An action by the Scottish Government’s Education Department has, at a stroke, created what looks like a legally binding precedent allowing local authorities Continue reading

81%-full Hillhead school closed on an educational benefit statement copied from Arbroath? Who needs a law?

fire engine Hillhead Wick 81%

(Updated) The decision from the Education Secretary to close Hillhead Primary school in Wick, demonstrates – yet again – that what is wrong Continue reading

ARSN submission to Rural Education Commission

Kilmory 5 Jan 2011

The Argyll Rural Schools Network (ARSN) has made its submission to the Commission on the Delivery of Rural Education, Continue reading

Muirfield School: Education Secretary concerned over Information Commissioner’s report

Ewan Smith, a doughty member of the Muirfield Action Group’s campaign to save their school, has persistently pursued Continue reading