Member

I do not want to overdo that, because it would be completely unfair to suggest that the qualifications of children from Scotland applying to English universities are not good enough. We just need to be sure that we learn from our mistakes. We used to say: “If you got a qualification in Scotland, that’s good enough for us”. We need it to be like that again. I hope this new departure will help us get there. The order effectively puts the new qualifications authority back where the practicalities of the old one were, but I hope the performance of the new Act and the new set-up will learn from the mistakes of the past and deliver the improvements in Scottish education that we desperately need.