The SNP’s plans to give headteachers in Scotland more autonomy over budgets and staffing, and to step up regional collaboration between schools, have raised as many concerns as hopes about the likely impact across the country.
Will this all mean more, rather than less, workload? Will it really help recruit and retain headteachers and deputes at a time of shortage? Does the Education (Scotland) Bill, with its Headteachers’ Charter, amount to yet more structural change for its own sake?
Above all, will it serve pupils best and help narrow the attainment gap between richer and poorer areas of Scotland? That is the ultimate criterion by which first minister Nicola Sturgeon has asked for her administration to be judged.
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