Education and Culture Committee - Scottish Parliament: 10th March 2015
Channel: The Scottish Parliament
Date: 2015-03-10

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk - Scottish Parliament Education and Culture Committee. Agenda:

1. Subordinate legislation: The Committee will take evidence on the Charity Test (Specified Bodies) and the Protection of Charities Assets (Exemption) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2015 [draft] from—
Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe and External Affairs, Noel Fojut, Historic Environment Policy Unit, and Emma Thomson, Principal Legal Officer, Scottish Government.

2. Subordinate legislation: Fiona Hyslop (Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe and External Affairs) to move—
S4M-12362—That the Education and Culture Committee recommends that the Charity Test (Specified Bodies) and the Protection of Charities Assets (Exemption) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2015 [draft] be approved.

3. Educational attainment gap (Developing Scotland’s Young Workforce): The Committee will take evidence from—
James Bream, Research and Policy Director, Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce;
Terry Lanagan, Executive Director of Educational Services, West Dunbartonshire Council, Association of Directors of Education in Scotland;
Professor Alan Gilloran, Deputy Principal, Queen Margaret University;
Kevin Lowden, Senior Researcher, Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change, University of Glasgow;
Mhairi Harrington, Principal and Chief Executive of West Lothian College, Colleges Scotland.

4. Public petition PE1530: The Committee will consider a petition by Spencer Fildes, on behalf of the Scottish Secular Society, calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to issue official guidance to bar the presentation in Scottish publicly funded schools of separate creation and of Young Earth doctrines as viable alternatives to the established science of evolution, common descent, and deep time.


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