Lochaber councillor Andrew Baxter has raised concerns this week over the Scottish Government’s controversial proposals to make changes to the governance of Scottish education.
Earlier this year Deputy First Minister John Swinney unveiled plans to set up ‘regional improvement collaboratives’ aimed at pooling and strengthening resources to support learning and teaching in schools, a move designed to tackle the attainment gap and improve standards in schools.
However, Mr Baxter believes this is just window dressing and is worried they will pave the way for what he called a ‘raft of Soviet-style commissars’ decreeing what will happen in local schools – in other words centralisation by the back door.