Category Archives: Policy – General

Professor Bronwen Cohen asks what future for childcare beyond the referendum. One of the questions not asked in the Referendum debate on the 5th of August was what the result might mean for childcare. A key issue for many families, survey evidence suggests that … Continue reading →

Professor Ferdinand Von Prondzynski, Principal of Robert Gordon University, looks to Ireland when examining the implications of independence for higher education. In 2011 I was appointed Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. As my name maybe doesn’t suggest, … Continue reading →

In a recent editorial in the BMJ, Kat Smith and Jeff Collin of the Global Public Health Unit at the University of Edinburgh assess the prospects of Scottish independence leading to greater innovation in public health policy. When the Scottish … Continue reading →

James Mitchell reflects on what might happen following a yes vote, arguing that governments are likely to find ‘pragmatic solutions to difficult problems’. Whatever happens next September, Scotland will continue to share this island with the rest of the rest … Continue reading →

Professor Bronwen Cohen, Honorary Professor in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh, suggests that transferring powers to the Scottish Parliament over tax and benefits could help bring Scotland’s Early Childhood Education and Care into the 21st century. Would independence … Continue reading →

The University of Edinburgh’s Oliver Escobar shares the So Say Scotland initiative, an effort to insert principles of deliberative democracy in the debate over Scotland’s constitutional future and ‘reclaim politics as the business of the people’. A few weeks ago … Continue reading →

Professor Sheila Riddell outlines her ESRC funded research on the future of education in the context of devolution and in light of the forthcoming referendum on independence. In the run-up to the referendum in autumn 2014, it is important to … Continue reading →