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Division · amendment
Building on Scotland’s Educational Success
S4M-14311.3
· decided 22 Sep 2015 · lodged by McArthur, Liam · session S4
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As an amendment to motion S4M-14311 in the name of Angela Constance (Building on Scotland’s Educational Success), leave out from “Scotland's educational success” to end and insert “the expansion of free nursery care for two-year-olds but is concerned that provision in Scotland still lags behind that available in England; believes that this support can help contribute toward addressing the difference in reading attainment between children from low-income and high-income households by the age of five, which is on average 13 months; understands that the average class size in the early years of primary school continued to increase to 23.3 in 2014, despite the SNP’s 2007 manifesto commitment to cut class sizes to 18 or less for Primary 1 to 3 pupils; understands that teacher numbers have fallen by approximately 4,000 since 2007 and regrets the rigid approach that the Scottish Government has taken to the enforcement of the teacher number guarantee; notes opposition to the reintroduction of standardised national testing and the views of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) that “it will be almost impossible to put in place safeguards which would stop national assessments leading to the league table, target-setting agenda which Curriculum for Excellence was supposed to have ended”; welcomes the Scottish Government’s decision to dedicate more resources to tackling the attainment gap; however, considers that, while the Scottish Attainment Fund will make a difference in selected areas, it ignores the needs of children facing poverty and disadvantage elsewhere in Scotland, including Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Dumfries and Galloway and the Highlands and Islands, and urges the Scottish Government to introduce a pupil premium that targets funding at individual school-aged children in need, wherever they may live, as a means of helping close the attainment gap and improving equality of opportunity."
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For
3
Against
81
SNP
62
- Adam, George
- Allan, Dr Alasdair
- Allard, Christian
- Beattie, Colin
- Biagi, Marco
- Brodie, Chic
- Brown, Keith
- Burgess, Margaret
- Campbell, Aileen
- Campbell, Roderick
- Coffey, Willie
- Constance, Angela
- Crawford, Bruce
- Cunningham, Roseanna
- Dey, Graeme
- Don, Nigel
- Doris, Bob
- Dornan, James
- Eadie, Jim
- Ewing, Annabelle
- Ewing, Fergus
- Fabiani, Linda
- FitzPatrick, Joe
- Gibson, Kenneth
- Gibson, Rob
- Grahame, Christine
- Hepburn, Jamie
- Hyslop, Fiona
- Ingram, Adam
- Keir, Colin
- Kidd, Bill
- Lochhead, Richard
- Lyle, Richard
- MacAskill, Kenny
- MacDonald, Angus
- MacDonald, Gordon
- Mackay, Derek
- MacKenzie, Mike
- Mason, John
- Matheson, Michael
- Maxwell, Stewart
- McAlpine, Joan
- McDonald, Mark
- McKelvie, Christina
- McLeod, Aileen
- McLeod, Fiona
- McMillan, Stuart
- Neil, Alex
- Paterson, Gil
- Robertson, Dennis
- Robison, Shona
- Russell, Michael
- Salmond, Alex
- Stevenson, Stewart
- Stewart, Kevin
- Sturgeon, Nicola
- Thompson, Dave
- Torrance, David
- Watt, Maureen
- Wheelhouse, Paul
- White, Sandra
- Yousaf, Humza
Con
13
Green
2
Lab
1
Abstain
32
Lab
32
- Baillie, Jackie
- Baker, Richard
- Baxter, Jayne
- Beamish, Claudia
- Bibby, Neil
- Boyack, Sarah
- Chisholm, Malcolm
- Fee, Mary
- Ferguson, Patricia
- Findlay, Neil
- Gray, Iain
- Griffin, Mark
- Henry, Hugh
- Hilton, Cara
- Kelly, James
- Lamont, Johann
- Macdonald, Lewis
- Macintosh, Ken
- Marra, Jenny
- McCulloch, Margaret
- McDougall, Margaret
- McMahon, Michael
- McMahon, Siobhan
- McNeil, Duncan
- McTaggart, Anne
- Murray, Elaine
- Pearson, Graeme
- Pentland, John
- Rowley, Alex
- Simpson, Dr Richard
- Smith, Drew
- Smith, Elaine
Not voted
11