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The Sunday Times (Scotland):
Freedom fighters offer a pig in a poke for the neediest of Scots

27 July 2014

The SNP has been in government in a devolved Scotland for more than seven years. During that time it has had control over most of the levers of social justice, from education to healthcare, from local authority spending to housing. The fact that the party has chosen to concentrate on constitutional reform rather than, to take one example, school reform, is their decision and not Westminster's. If anything is instrumental in turning around people's lives it is education - proof of which is now being seen in England's inner cities. Here, there are no plans for the revolution that is rescuing failing schools south of the border, and there remain ''deep levels of inequality... particularly between pupils from different socio-economic groups'', claims the LSE study 'Education in a Devolved Scotland'.

This article was published in The Sunday Times (Scotland) on July 27, 2014
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Related Publications
'Education in a Devolved Scotland: A Quantitative Analysis', Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally and Gill Wyness, Centre for Economic Performance Special Paper No.30, May 2013.
Education in Scotland: performance in a devolved policy area, Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally and Gill Wyness. Article in CentrePiece Volume 18, Issue 1, Summer 2013

Related Links
Stephen Machin webpage
Sandra McNally webpage
Gill Wyness webpage
Education and Skills webpage

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