Uni researchers to study impact of CfE

the money to buy the farm.

Leaving his wife, Elizabeth and daughter Margaret in Callander, he travelled in July, 1914, to London with a few other men from the Callander area and set sail for Australia. He went in to work in Mildura, Victoria.

Kenneth enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force 24th Battalion on March

17, 1915.

Papers show he was injured while fighting on the Western Front on August 22, 1916, and taken to the hospital but returned to his battalion on August 27, 1916.

He was killed in action on November 6, 1916, and is buried in the vicinity of Flers.

His name is included on the memorial at Villers Bretonneux but not on that of his home town.

Mrs Donaldson said: “I have the war diaries for the week in which he was killed which show that the battalion was at Cobham Trench and part of the ration party. They then returned to Longueval

Stirling University academics are to carry out a two-year study on the structure of the Scottish secondary school curriculum and its impact on the lives of pupils.

Funded by the Nuffield Foundation at a cost of £270,000, the study will be led by Dr Marina Shapira, of the university faculty of social sciences, with support from Professor Mark Priestley and a research team.

It will be the first indepth evaluation of subject provision through Scotland’s ‘Curriculum for Excellence’ (CfE).

Researchers will look at the ways in which the curriculum is structured in schools, explore how curricular decisions are made in different schools, and analyse the impact of curriculum provision on educational opportunities for young people from different socio-economic backgrounds.

CfE was implemented in 2010 to provide a broad competence-based education suited to the demands of the 21st Century.

It has been widely regarded as the most significant educational development in a generation, with the potential to transform learning and teaching in Scottish schools.

However, there has been emerging evidence in some areas of Scotland of a reduction in the number of subject choices offered to pupils. The new study will address suggestions that CfE limits learning opportunities for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.

The study is scheduled to report in autumn 2021.