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Ross Greer
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Scottish private schools emerge from Covid £12.3m richer
Scotland’s leading independent schools were worth £12.3m more in 2021 than they were the previous year, despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Claim Scotland has taken in 20 per cent of UK’s refugees from Ukraine is False
Ferret Fact Service looks into a claim that Scotland has taken in 20 per cent of the Ukrainian refugees who have come to the UK.
More than £1bn awarded to private firms by councils
Scottish councils have awarded contracts worth more than £1bn to private companies since 2015, The Ferret can reveal.
Scots pension funds invest nearly half a billion in firms still doing business in Russia
Scotland’s two largest local government pension funds have nearly half a billion pounds invested in firms which are still doing business in Russia.
MSP pension fund has shares in Russian bank
The pension fund for Scotland’s MSPs has shares in a Russian bank called Sberbank which has been sanctioned following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
A fifth of pupils did not sit standardised tests
The Scottish Government has been urged to scrap controversial standardised testing in schools after figures revealed that as few as 52 per cent of pupils completed them.
SQA’s failure to act on pupil warnings makes ‘mockery’ of child rights commitment
Secondary school pupils warned the SQA in November 2020 that plans to compare 2021 grades to past results were "unfair" but their input was not acted upon.
‘Pupils will pay the price’ under new system for awarding grades, claims professor
The Scottish Government's system for awarding grades to school pupils this year is “a less defensible” version of the algorithm used last summer, says a leading education academic.
Pupils sitting ‘exams in disguise’ accuse SQA of ‘shambolic’ mismanagement
Scottish high school pupils have told The Ferret that “shambolic” mismanagement by the SQA has left them facing a “marathon of assessments” without support.
