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  • BBC Education Scotland On-line
    Coverage ranges from pre-school level to Higher Still. Includes resources for teachers, including interactive journeys and articles for parents.
  • CareersPoint
    Careers information guide including "Career ideas", "Career information", "Applying for jobs", "Information on college and university", "Work & study abroad" and "Voluntary work"
  • City & Guilds
    Information for users and practitioners on qualifications, workshops, centres and assessments.
  • Education Statistics on the Internet
    Site maintained by University of Glasgow. Includes Scottish Executive statistical databases and downloadable annual publications, UK and international statistics.
  • Educational Software Directory
    Divides into general categories [e.g. language arts, social studies &c]. Includes links to sites of multimedia and computing organisations and publishers, educational technology journals, review sites and news stories.
  • Eduweb
    Resources for primary and secondary schools including "Living Library".
  • European Computer Driving Licence
    Information on course content, sample questions and list of test centres.
  • Forth Valley College of Further and Higher Education
    Including the former Falkirk and Clackmannan Colleges. Information on Clackmannan, Falkirk and Stirling sites. Downloadable application forms and prospectus for Clackmannan. Searchable databases and downloadable application forms for Falkirk and Stirling.
  • GeoExplorer
    Resources for students and teachers of geography. Link to Virtual Geology.
  • LearndirectScotland
    Includes searchable list of courses and other learning opportunities, careers advice and details of qualifications and funding.
  • Learning and Teaching Scotland
    Includes electronic library allowing learners and teachers to find and download National Qualifications support material.
  • National Extension College
    Learners' pages include list of courses. Education providers' pages include list of learning resources including searchable catalogue.
  • National Grid for Learning Scotland
    Includes links to the Scottish Virtual Teachers’ Centre [which brings together a variety of internet resources relevant for teaching] and Early Years resource website as well as an online directory of Scottish schools.
  • National Literacy Trust
    Includes details of publications and other resources, abstracts of research findings, literacy statistics for adults and children and an A to Z of related organisations.
  • Planet Science
    Events,projects and resources designed to stimulate the imagination about science & technology. Aimed at ages 10 to 19 and those involved in teaching that group. Continues "Science Year" project.
  • PlanIT Plus
    Scottish careers and Lifelong Learning resource.
  • PLOTEUS
    Portal on Learning Opportunities Throughout Europe. Information resources identified and classified by the National Resources Centres for Vocational Guidance (Euroguidance).
  • Primary Resources
    NGfL-approved primary school resources site including downloadable worksheets and guidelines on doing research.
  • Scottish Parliament
    Documents available include What's Happening in the Scottish Parliament, Bills, Business Bulletins, Annual Reports, written answers and reports and official reports of various committes. Biographical details and register of interests for MSPs included. Scottish Parliament Information Centre [SPICe] research papers on a variety of parliamentary and non-parliamentary topics also included.
  • Scottish Qualifications Authority
    Includes annual statistics on qualifications, downloadable list of publications, qualification search by NQ / SVQ / HN course title or code. Downloadable NQ / SVQ / HN catalogues and specimen question papers also included.
  • Support4Learning
    Includes Education Index with links to sites containing course details, financial advice, careers information, jobseeking skills advice and links to vacancies databases.
  • The Red Box
    Award-winning Treasury site aimed at 7-16 year-olds and teachers. Contains downloadable notes and worksheets.
  • UCAS [Universities & Colleges Admission Service]
    Degree, HND and further education courses searchable by subject and location. Tariff calculator can tally UCAS qualifications score. Statistical datasets available on characteristics of previous years' applicants [qualifications, ethnicity, courses applied for &c].
  • Workers' Educational Association
    Features include course search [by subject, title of course and location], news and details of activities and publications.

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