[Scottish] Petition

2009-02-17 Thread John¹
The following from, fsfe...@gnu.org may be of some interest to those of you who have not already seen it: [Fsfe-UK] Petition to pass around, Ian Lynch wrote: > http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/nonMSschools/ Various LUGs are criticising the wording of this, but I think it's broadly a good idea.

Re: [Scottish] Petition

2009-02-17 Thread Colin Speirs
Are GCSE's a thing in scotland? Isn't education a devolved matter? col ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

Re: [Scottish] Petition

2009-02-17 Thread Georgia Thomson
no, it's standard grade up here. but if the gcse was more useful than it currently is, then the scottish system would pretty much be forced to change to match the english standard, or leave the scottish students at significant disadvantage Colin Speirs wrote: > Are GCSE's a thing in scotland?

Re: [Scottish] Petition

2009-02-17 Thread John¹
On Tuesday 17 February 2009 12:00:02 scottish-requ...@mailman.lug.org.uk wrote: > Are GCSE's a thing in scotland? I think not, but then I went to school in England. > > Isn't education a devolved matter? > Why would that prevent you signing a petition? We are after all, for the time being UK cit

Re: [Scottish] Petition

2009-02-19 Thread John¹
On Wednesday 18 February 2009 12:00:02 Georgia Thomson wrote: > no, it's standard grade up here.  but if the gcse was more useful than > it currently is, then the scottish system would pretty much be forced to > change to match the english standard, or leave the scottish students at > significant

Re: [Scottish] Petition

2009-02-19 Thread Colin Speirs
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:26 PM, John¹ wrote: > I should perhaps add by way of excuse/explanation, that I am suffering > acute pain, treated with extremely strong prescription painkillers, and am > therefore not as 'sharp' as perhaps I could be. If my forwarding of the > original message has caus