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Improving Scottish Education

Note on contents

The report

Improving Scottish Education 2005-2008 comments on the quality of provision across all sectors and offers:

• a foreword by HM Senior Chief Inspector;
• a section which draws together inspection and review evidence from all sectors to provide an overview of the progress made in the areas highlighted as priorities for improvement in the first Improving Scottish Education report, published in 2006;
• a section with eight summarising reports, seven of which focus on a sector of education, the eighth covering child protection services;
• a section that evaluates the impact of local authorities on the quality of education in their respective areas; and
• a final section indicating the way ahead and the focus of HMIE (HM Inspectorate of Education) activities in the next few years.

Website version

A web version of the report and other related materials are available on the HMIE website (www.hmie.gov.uk). This version comprises:

• an electronic copy of the report with access to individual sections;
• all HMIE quality indicator data relating to inspections and reviews in each sector;
• summaries of stakeholders’ views as gathered for primary and secondary sector inspections;
• a selection of facts and figures relating to each sector;
• information on national qualifications at secondary school level;
• some facts about the demographic context for Scottish education;
• information on the policy context for each sector; and
• a bibliography of HMIE and other reports, with hyperlinks to each of them.

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