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BBC Education Scotland - Resources for schools, organised by age-group.
General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) - A body which registers teachers, in existence since 1966.
Metrics Project, UK - The Metrics Project is to develop an on-line learning management tools which will drive forward the development and improvement of Scottish on-line learning.
Scottish Learning Network - The Scottish Learning Network is a gateway to information,guidance, assessment and on-line education and training opportunities in Scotland.
Scottish State Education System - Unfair Discrimination in the Scottish State Education System due to implementation of an ill-conceived political dogma
ScotFEICT - Aimed at further education. Features news, views and information on developments in the use of ICT in the curriculum.
Scottish Development Education Centre - Promoting a globally aware approach in the curriculum through the provision of resources.
Websac Project - WEB Servers in Scottish Schools and Colleges.
Scottish Virtual Teachers' Centre - Services for teachers and professionals who work in the Scottish schools system.
PlanIT Careers and Education in Scotland - A website dedicated to providing Careers and Education information for the whole of Scotland.
Mental Agility - Downloadable resources for teachers of Mathematics. Develop mental Agility in Mathematics 5-14 at level B, Level C, level D, Level E & Level F.
MathsOntrack - A series of home support materials for Scottish Primary children to help keep them 'on track' with their maths.
Scottish Council for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education - Information relating to postgraduate training in Scotland for medicine, dentistry and clinical psychology.
Mindscreen Entrepreneurial - A Scotland based education project dedicated to identifying, nurturing, and encouraging young entrepreneurs.
SUCCEEDS - Designed to open doors for disabled students, this project is a collaboration between six Scottish universities.
ScottishNurseries.com - Portal for Nurseries across Scotland. The site provides on-line viewing of nursery facilities together with advice and information on various childcare related topics. There is also a very useful employment page for nursery staff.
Scottish Support for Learning Association - Charity with a goal to help create the best possible conditions for learning for all.
Learning and Teaching Scotland - Scottish education body. Advises on: pre-school/school curriculum, ICT in education and lifelong learning. Develops software. Provides resources and training.
Student Awards Agency - Details the aims and objectives of this Government funded body and includes application forms, service and support information.
Workers Educational Association Scotland - Providing information on help for adults to continue learning. Listing meetings calendar, staff and tutor briefings and vacancies.
Glenalmond College - Perth based independent co-educational boarding school offering traditional Scottish education with personal and social values. Providing virtual tour, maps, news, prospectus and contact details.
Ardroy Outdoor Education Centre - Offering the outdoor and natural environment to achieve personal and social objectives and team building outcomes for schools, colleges and corporate groups.
Pushkin Prizes - Providing details and results of this creative writing competition for Scottish and Russian pupils.
Maths Solutions for Scotland - Providing questions and worked solutions for the 2002 Scottish Higher and Credit Maths exams. Requires dialup connection for membership and access.
ScottishClearing - Official clearing service covering Scottish College and Universities. Up-to-date course vacancy listings and entry requirements.
Scottish Sensory Centre - Promotes and supports new developments and effective practices in the education of children and young people with sensory impairments, (visual impairment, deaf and deafblind). Information about their courses, research, publications, and resources.
Scottish Educational Research Association - Membership organization that promotes educational research and its application for practitioners. Aims, events, publications and annual conference.
Carousel Training Centre - Providers of training in pre-school and nursery nursing throughout Scotland. Includes staff and courses.
SSBA - Scottish School Board Association - Representing member School Boards around Scotland and parents, providing Boards with advice, training, problem solving and information on educational issues and representation at Scottish Parliament.
The SCRE Centre - At the University of Glasgow conducts educational research. Activities, publications, news, and workshop. Information about bullying at school.
Resources for Learning in Scotland - Created by the National Library of Scotland and SCRAN, involving over 100 Scottish archives and libraries. Multimedia resources on history and culture.
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. -- Lucille Ball No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded. -- Yogi Berra "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein Education Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it. -- Anonymous Education You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings. -- Lisa Moriyama Conceit causes more conversation than wit. -- LaRouchefoucauld Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. -- Michel de Montaigne Education May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Education Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Study men, not historians. -- Harry Truman For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. -- Robert Briffault Education Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Education You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. -- Anonymous Journalism is merely history's first draft. -- Geoffrey C. Ward ...the fog is rising. -- Emily Dickinson, dying words Education Give the people not hell, but hope and courage. -- John Murray "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) He would make a lovely corpse. - Charles Dickens Education The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue. -- Anonymous If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Chekhov "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Education "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. -- Anne Bradstreet Education You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the commun I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. -- Soren Kierkegaard If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S. Truman Education Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. -- Samuel Butler "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) And gain is gain, however small. -- Robert Browning He who laughs last thinks slowest. -- Seen on a bumper sticker The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea. -- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. -- Oscar Wilde This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Education When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now comple He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. -- Aesop Ninety percent of the game is half mental. -- Yogi Berra How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. -- Alexandre Dumas fils By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -- ROBERT FROST Education Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Education The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and the When women go wrong, men go right after them. -- Mae West "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Assassins! -- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Education "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. -- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be Education I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. -- Vincent Van Gogh I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. -- Mark Twain Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Education "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. -- Kenny Ausubel Education I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -- Albert Einstein Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- G. K. Chesterton Golf is a good walk spoiled. -- Mark Twain Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. -- Francis Bacon Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. -- Charles Du Bos It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca Education
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