Care

Resources

NQ Online resource database

Go to the resource database for teaching materials at a range of levels (including NQ Curriculum Support titles), many of which can be downloaded free.

NQ Online subject web links

Go to NQ Online's directory of educational websites for a selection of subject web links for help with coursework, homework and revision.

• SFEU - Care
  Go to the Scottish Further Education Unit's subject networks gateway for mail lists, NQ developments, press scan and information gateway.
• SQA - Care
  Go to the Scottish Qualifications Authority website for NQ review updates, arrangements documents, standards and assessors reports.
• SQA - Early Education and Childcare
  Go to the Scottish Qualifications Authority website for NQ review updates, arrangements documents, standards and assessors reports.

News

• Scotland's exam season gets under way

  05 May 2009
  The Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) announces that the exam season is now underway. The exams end on Friday 12 June and results will be issued on Wednesday 5 August. Links to a SQA news release and articles from the the BBC and the Herald newspaper are provided.

• Rush to apply to new universities

  23 April 2009
  The BBC reports that new universities are reporting an "unprecedented" rise in applications - with warnings that this will mean many applicants being turned away.

• Curriculum for Excellence launch

  02 April 2009
  Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, and Keith Brown, Minister for Schools and Skills, formally launched the Curriculum for Excellence guidance on Thursday 2 April in Stirling.

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