Gaelic-specific education reform FAQs published online

A Gaelic-related version of frequently asked questions on Argyll’s proposed education changes has been published by the council.

And a webinar for parents of pupils in Gaelic Medium Education was scheduled for Tuesday March 22.

A council spokesperson said: ‘We have been consulting with Bòrd na Gàidhlig and Comann nam Pàrant and issued our Gaelic FAQs last week. The publication of these was scheduled to promote the opportunity to attend our Gaelic Medium Education parents session on March 22.’

Education Transformation Board bosses promised its latest, and fourth, volume of Gaelic-related FAQs would be translated from English into Gaelic and they appeared online on Wednesday March 16.

The consultation is still due to end on Thursday March 31. The council spokesperson told The Oban Times: ‘There are no plans to extend the deadline’.

The Gaelic-specific questions can be viewed and downloaded here: https://empoweringoureducators.co.uk/proposals/. FAQs include asking how will the proposed collective leadership support the growth of Gaelic Medium Education within Argyll and Bute and what will be the advantages.

Another question asked how will the new structure help attract Gaelic Medium staff to Argyll and Bute and keep them here.

The Oban Times has already reported on angry parents slamming the local authority for an ‘insulting’ lack of Gaelic in its controversial school reform proposals.

Following hundreds of Gaelic school books being dumped in a skip outside Argyll and Bute Council’s old education offices in Oban, the issue was discussed in a passionate debate at Oban Community Council on Monday February 28.