ABSTRACT
It is tempting for those of us in Scotland to imagine that an embattled and embittered English education system looks north with envy on better ways of doing things; while bemoaning our own fate, we reassure ourselves about how much worse things are south of the border. Whether others agree with that will depend on their own educational values. They may well regard us as self-satisfied, complacent, old-fashioned whingers who can never get away from the idea that we somehow 'lost' in the Act of Union in 1707 and so must continually assert our superiority in areas such as education and the law, both of which remain unassimilated to the English systems.
