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This reads as a bit of an SNP hit-piece, and right at the very bottom, there's this little admission.

Teachers are currently allocated seven-and-a-half hours a week of preparation time.

In the end, it is councils who employ teachers and therefore control the numbers.

The Scottish government only has so many levers it can apply to force councils to hire more staff.

If they can suspend your ethics council at will then you have never really had an ethics council. There's no war, no economic depression, no emergency forcing their hand.

Norway is a very prosperous country, I've been there a few times and seen for myself, there's no excuse for suspending ethics for financial gain in this way.

Spineless. There's so much money to be made via other endeavours, ones which would be more likely to be profitable with the financial backing of such a wealth fund.

Found Trump's Lemmy account

Oh aye! How could I forget. And if you're hanging a wee tinny of Bru to wash it down

This coming from Keir "an island of strangers" ~~Powell~~ Starmer

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj3rxrg2pnjo

I see your full English and raise you a full Scottish. Just like a full English but with haggis, fruit pudding, tattie scone, and guaranteed black pudding (English seems to only sometimes come with black pudding).

With the rewilding efforts of the Scottish government there's been a recent uptick in haggis numbers though! The downside with that however is the little buggers have been breaking into industrial oat stores and gobbling up as much as they can, so the price of oats has increased.

Last I heard, the oat industry were discussing moving their storage locations to flatter ground so the haggis struggle to get to it with their mismatched legs.

The article also discusses the practical and how it took one candidate 21 tries to pass

Considering the potential consequences of incompetent driving, I'm surprised there's not a cap on the amount of attempts already.

If not a cap on the total, at least something like "no more than 12 attempts allowed in a year". If evenly spaced that allows 1 attempt per month, giving time to practice and revise what was failed before.

Any more than that seems to be a case of throwing shit at the wall until enough sticks, or rather, make enough attempts and eventually you're bound to do one without any majors. That hardly proves competence and capability though, which is really the point of testing in the first place.

Paywalled

Lol, blocked in the UK.