Abstract
The last 12-18 months have seen a number of important developments that
are impacting on Scottish higher education learning and teaching policy and
practice:
• a new, merged Scottish Funding Council for both further and higher
education;
• a new SNP majority Scottish Government;
• a review of quality arrangements in Scottish further and higher
education by the Scottish Funding Council;
• the establishment of a Scottish Government/Universities Scotland
Joint Future Thinking Task Force on Universities.
The above sector wide cross-disciplinary developments are accompanied, for
legal education and training, by a current review being carried out by the Law
Society of Scotland. This article aims to provide a briefing on these various
developments and the issues they potentially raise.
are impacting on Scottish higher education learning and teaching policy and
practice:
• a new, merged Scottish Funding Council for both further and higher
education;
• a new SNP majority Scottish Government;
• a review of quality arrangements in Scottish further and higher
education by the Scottish Funding Council;
• the establishment of a Scottish Government/Universities Scotland
Joint Future Thinking Task Force on Universities.
The above sector wide cross-disciplinary developments are accompanied, for
legal education and training, by a current review being carried out by the Law
Society of Scotland. This article aims to provide a briefing on these various
developments and the issues they potentially raise.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 224-227 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Medical Teacher |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2008 |
Keywords
- Scotland
- higher education
- quality enhancement developments