Zero-attainment pupils on rise under new curriculum
More children are leaving school without any qualifications since the government radically overhauled the school curriculum, an academic has said.
The proportion of children leaving with no qualifications at all has quadrupled in some areas, according to Jim Scott, professor of education at Dundee University.
Nicola Sturgeon pledged to make education the defining priority of her government in 2015, urging Scottish voters to judge her by her record just as the new Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) was bedding in.
She appointed John Swinney, her deputy and a former SNP leader, as education secretary as a sign of her commitment to close the attainment gap between rich and poor.