ABSTRACT
In recent years there have been major changes in education in the United Kingdom, in the curriculum and in the assessment of achievement, in management and inspection of schools and in the education of teachers. The impression is often given that developments in Scotland differ little from those elsewhere in the United Kingdom; that is an erroneous impression which this book should dispel. The book is aimed at a wide readership overseas as well as in the United Kingdom. As will be seen, many of the issues being confronted in Scotland today, and the proposed solutions, have relevance to educationists in many countries.
