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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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Nan Spowart

‘Critique of Scottish education as in decline drives me to despair’

Larry Flanagan was appalled by the decision by a Scottish MP to ask the UK education minister Nadhim Zahawi to ‘sort out’ Scottish education

THE biggest failure regarding Scottish education in the last decade has been the attempt to turn it into a political football, according to the outgoing leader of Scotland’s biggest teaching union.

Speaking to the Sunday ­National, Larry Flanagan, general ­secretary of the EIS, said he was ­“absolutely ­appalled” when a LibDem MP ­recently appealed to the Tory ­education minister to “tell Scotland to get education right”.

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