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PE1879: Provide an accessible and professionally developed learning and teaching resource on Israel and Palestine

Petition Summary

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to acknowledge the right of Scotland's pupils to a bias-free education on the topic of Israel-Palestine by:
* ensuring Education Scotland hosts an accessible and professionally developed learning and teaching resource on its national intranet service
* re-establishing a ‘strategic review group’ to oversee any revision of the original resource developed in 2016.

Petitioner: Hugh Humphries on behalf of Scottish Friends of Palestine

Status: Closed

Date published: 15 June 2021

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Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee Consideration

Committee meetings

6 October 2021: The Committee agreed to close the petition under Rule 15.7 of Standing Orders on the basis that the Curriculum for Excellence does not prescribe set topics and allows local authorities and individual schools to develop curricula informed by the local needs of learners; and the Scottish Government states that both it and Education Scotland consider their involvement in the resources to be closed. The Committee also agreed to bring the petition to the attention of the relevant Cross-Party Groups.

Official Report of Meeting 6 October 2021

PE1879/I: Petitioner submission of 5 October 2021