Member

This order is a consequence of the amendment to the education Act. If the title was all you read, you would wonder why we are bothering, because this is no different from what we had before. Given that what we had before was deemed unfit for purpose, this is not an ideal way to introduce an instrument. I assume that we are saying, “Yes, we got it wrong. This is a new way of doing it that will work”. The importance of this order is to ensure that Scottish qualifications are recognised throughout the United Kingdom and beyond. Perhaps it is now up to the Scottish Government to make sure that standards in Scottish schools are good enough to ensure that they are not only recognised but valued.