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June 2010

Reports

Towards accessible e-book platforms
This JISC research report highlights how e-books have great potential to be useful tools for disabled learners and readers. It presents the research findings and suggests improvements for publishers to consider when developing their products.

Scotland's Action Plan for the Second Half of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
Sustainable development has come to prominence over the last 5 years as the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development has progressed. The report sets out the ambitions for the next 5 years and lists the actions for schools, colleges and HEIs, and lifelong learning.

Unemployment – April 2010
This briefing from the Scottish Parliament presents the statistical data relating to unemployment in the Scottish Parliament constituency areas.

Research Tools

This useful toolkit called 'Transcribing your own Qualitative Data' provides some hints and tips on transcribing material gathered during qualitative research.

New wellbeing website from HEFCE/SFC – some useful resources on engaging staff in taking charge of their well-being.

Longitudinal and Life Course Studies: A new longitudinal research journal (free but registration required).

May 2010

Reports

Australian consultation on launching a national curriculum for 3-19
This update from INCA presents the thinking and proposals relating to the proposed national curriculum. There are some elements that mirror Curriculum for Excellence and the 10 general capabilities proposed are interesting in themselves. The variations proposed by different states make thought provoking reading.

Growing up in Scotland: The circumstances of persistently poor children
This report looks at the children who face persistent policy and provides insight in to their lives and challenges. It uses data gathered from the longitudinal study Growing up in Scotland (GUS) and there are also other complementary reports published that look at health inequalities in early years, maternal mental health and its effects and children's social and emotional characteristics when they enter primary school. These reports can be accessed below:

Responses to the Protecting Vulnerable Groups consultation on significant Scottish Statutory Instruments (SSIs), Regulatory Impact Assessment and guidance
These are the responses received for the proposed changes to the Protecting Vulnerable Groups consultation by the Scottish Government.

The Teaching Qualification (FE) Candidate Satisfaction Survey 2009: report of findings
The findings from this survey of TQFE candidates undertaken by the Scottish Government.

16+ Learning Choices: Policy and Practice Framework: supporting all young people into positive and sustained destinations
This publication details the policy and practice framework that supports the delivery of the Scottish Government's guaranteed offer of post-16 learning to every young person in the Senior Phase.

Employability skills: A research and policy briefing
This paper brings together some of the key findings on employability skills from the past decade. It contributes to the wider work that the UKCES is carrying out on ‘the best way to develop employability skills within the publicly funded employment and skills system'.

Education and happiness in the school-to-work transition
The Australian Longitudinal Survey of Australian Youth (LSAY) is similar to the Scottish School Leaver Destinations Survey undertaken by SDS. This report picks up one aspect of the survey: the relationship between happiness at school and a successful continuing vocational education transition.

April 2010

Reports

Change in wellbeing from childhood to adolescence: risk and resilience
Although this research is based on English evidence, the issues raised have equal resonance in Scotland. This report looks at the psychosocial wellbeing of children through four different aspects: emotional, behavioural, social and subjective school wellbeing. The report also uses secondary data analysis to explore wellbeing in a framework containing risk and resilience, using data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. The report also looks at the lives of children who have risks to their wellbeing and tries to identify factors that might mitigate the effects of these risks.

Poorer children's educational attainment: how important are attitudes and behaviour?
This report from the Joseph Rowntree Trust explores how opportunity and exclusion affect children's educational attainment and achievement. It looks at a broad set of factors that are loosely classified as aspirations, attitudes and behaviours. The report also looks at how policy decisions can affect this group of young people.

Education and Lifelong Learning: Evaluation of Campus Police Officers in Scottish Schools
A few colleges have been trialling campus police. This report presents the findings from the evaluation of the schools' scheme. Campus police are used to help young people steer away from antisocial behaviours and crime and adopt positive behaviour instead.

Statistics Publication Notice Lifelong Learning Series: Students In Higher Education At Scottish Institutions
This statistics publication from the Scottish Government details the numbers of students in higher education in Scottish FE and HE institutions.

SQA Attainment and School Leaver Qualifications in Scotland: 2008-09
This statistics publication from the Scottish Government presents information on exam results, now that the post-appeals process has been completed.

Scotland's colleges: A baseline report
This publication from the Scottish Funding Council summarises the FES information relating to the sector for the AY 2008-09.

Learning for all: Fourth update
This report from the Scottish Funding Council presents the latest data from the strategy to widen participation in higher education.

The Mobility Manifesto
The Sutton Trust commissioned the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to assess the impact of global education policies that were designed to boost social mobility. The BCG was briefed to look at reform and policy in relation to social mobility from early years to university and beyond. BCG were also tasked with analysing the economic benefits of social mobility in terms of GDP growth as a lack of social mobility can have a significant impact on a country's economic prosperity.