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Musical chairs as appointment of Youth Employment Minister masks real issues

On 1st December 2011, the Scottish government announced that it was to appoint a minister for youth employment. This followed concern to protect the prospects of young people with the UK announcing...

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Answer to youth unemployment? A commission.

Youth unemployment is the greatest problem Scotland – and the entire UK – faces.The Scottish Government announced today [21st January] that Aberdeen’s former leading oil industry figure, Sir Ian Wood,...

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Scottish Government’s misleading claim on youth unemployment fall in Argyll...

The Scottish Government has just issued the following press release, claiming that youth unemployment is falling in Argyll and Bute – on the basis that the claimant count amongst the 16-24 age band has...

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Is Constance entry to the contest for SNP Deputy Leader designed to thwart...

A few days ago, Angela Constance, recently promoted to Cabinet Rank in the Scottish Government as Secretary for Youth Employment, entered the lists of the contest for Deputy Leader of the Scottish...

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SNP Deputy Leader candidates set out their stalls

Yesterday’s edition [19th October 2014] of The Sunday Herald carried manifesto statements by each of the three candidates for the Deputy Leadership of the SNP and, in the case of two of them,...

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In a party for whom 84,000 members are not enough for candidate selection,...

[Updated 15.15 below] Stewart Hosie, SNP MP for Dundee East, is now Deputy Leader of the SNP.How will this play if, as he clearly intends, Alex Salmond returns, on May 2015, to his conflicted...

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Councils win stand off on teacher numbers – getting the government money for...

The Scottish Government statement says: ‘All 32 local authorities have signed up to safeguard the number of teaching posts across Scotland in 2015-16, supported by the Scottish Government’s £51 million...

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Davidon chases clarity from Labour on charitable status of independent schools

With Scottish education in dire straits and little evidence that the Education Secretary has any notion of how to restore its earned former reputation, Scottish Conservative Leader, Ruth Davidson, has...

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