- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 16 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 28 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that the Guidelines for Initial Teacher Education and the Standard for Initial Teacher Education put an onus on ministers to approve only Initial Teacher Education programmes that prepare all new teachers with the competencies to deliver the full primary curriculum.
Answer
The General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS), which is currently being established as the independent, profession-led regulatory body for the teaching profession in Scotland, conducts a thorough process of accreditation of all programmes of Initial Teacher Education (ITE). Officials, on behalf of the Scottish ministers, approve programmes only on the basis of the council''s recommendations.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 16 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 28 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that Initial Teacher Education programmes for primary teachers offering no core modern languages in the primary teacher training course adequately prepare new teachers to teach modern languages in the primary school.
Answer
The Guidelines for Initial Teacher Education courses in Scotland are not prescriptive about the balance of course content. Accordingly, courses will include varying proportions of subject content.
The General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS), which is currently being established as the independent, profession-led regulatory body for the teaching profession in Scotland, conducts a thorough process of accreditation of all programmes of Initial Teacher Education (ITE). Officials on behalf of the Scottish Ministers approve programmes only on the basis of the council''s recommendations.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 16 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 28 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Initial Teacher Education programmes for primary teachers have been accredited and approved since the new Guidelines for Accreditation of Initial Teacher Education and Standard for Initial Teacher Education came into force in December 2006.
Answer
The General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) is the professional body for the teaching profession and as such has responsibility for accrediting courses of Initial Teacher Education that are either new or that have had any changes made to them. The Scottish ministers subsequently approve these courses.
The current versions of the Guidelines and the Standard for Initial Teacher Education dated December 2006, but were officially launched in September 2007 and have had effect since academic year 2007-08.
Since January 2007, the GTCS has accredited:
Aberdeen''s BEd and PGDE Primary programme (February 2007)
Stirling''s Primary programme (May 2008)
Glasgow''s BEd, MA Primary (Crichton Campus) and PGDE Primary programmes (August 2008)
Strathclyde''s BEd programme (April 2009)
Edinburgh''s BEd and PGDE Primary programmes (August 2009).
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 16 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 28 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what role its officials, nominated by ministers to sit on the council of the General Teaching Council for Scotland, have in terms of advising ministers whether to formally approve Initial Teacher Education programmes.
Answer
The GTCS runs a rigorous accreditation process for ITE courses. icurrent practice is for officials to approve, on behalf of ministers, all ITE courses that have been considered and recommended for approval by the GTCS.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 16 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 26 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many teachers have received Modern Languages in the Primary School in-service training in each year (a) of the national in-service training programme between 1993 and 2001, (b) of the ring-fenced Language Fund between 2001 and 2008 and (c) since the end of ring-fenced funding, broken down by local authority.
Answer
Regarding part (a) of the question, we are unable to answer this because the information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
I refer the member for parts (b) and (c) to the answer to the question S3W-31088 on 4 February 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive in relation to how many cases involving the Scottish Police Services Authority and its predecessor bodies was the crime scene examined for DNA evidence in each of the last five years, broken down by regional bureau.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-33036 on 26 April 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive in relation to how many cases involving the Scottish Police Services Authority and its predecessor bodies was DNA but not fingerprint evidence collected in each of the last five years, broken down by regional bureau.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-33036 on 26 April 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there has been a policy decision to collect from crime scenes DNA instead of fingerprint evidence.
Answer
The collection of evidence at crime scenes is an operational matter for the Scottish Police Services Authority and police chief constables. Both fingerprints and DNA samples are invaluable in providing evidence linking an individual to a crime scene. Expert scene examination officers and investigating police officers take decisions on the most appropriate method of collecting evidence based on the circumstances of the individual crime scene. If both fingerprint and DNA evidence are present at a scene then both would generally be collected.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive in what proportion of crime scenes was an examination carried out by the Scottish Police Services Authority and its predecessor bodies in each of the last five years, broken down by regional bureau.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-33036 on 26 April 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 26 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many crime scene examinations were carried out by the Scottish Police Services Authority and its predecessor bodies in each of the last five years, broken down by regional bureau.
Answer
Crime scene examinations are an operational matter for the Scottish Police Services Authority and police chief constables. Information on the number of crime scenes attended and the evidence collected is not held centrally.
