2 April 2012
Litmus test for the harder side of Scottish life
Carol Craig’s The Tears that Made the Clyde is a trenchant critique of contemporary Glasgow…
2 April 2012
NESTA seeks innovators
Edinburgh and the Lothians are well served by a wide range of community organisations. Lothian…
1 April 2012
Grammatical accuracy taken to task
Evidence is the means whereby an assertion or theory is proved valid. So why use…
1 April 2012
Local leaders must fight for their corner
Scotland’s councils have set their 2010-11 budgets. Schools know their staffing and supplies and services…
1 April 2012
Lessons in hope from a world on the wire
My recent TV watching, on a friend’s recommendation, has concentrated on The Wire. I became…
1 April 2012
Beanstalks and bankers scale satirical heights
It’s pantomime time again (“Oh no, it isn’t”). At Wester Hailes, as at countless schools,…
31 March 2012
Assemblance of key ideas
I love my job. I enjoy teaching, but it would now be self-indulgent to do…
31 March 2012
Why do some parents find school alien?
My holiday reading was Janice Galloway’s This is not about me, an account set in…
31 March 2012
Let them go if you want them to come back
Two sixth-year girls asked me how to get to Glasgow University for an open day.…
31 March 2012
Pros and cons of the selective generation
I left Paisley Grammar in 1969. In June, more than 40 of us celebrated that…
