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List Of Schools Of Ambition
The following is a list of the schools in Scotland that participated in the Schools of Ambition programme. By Unitary authority, unitary Subdivisions of Scotland, council area. Aberdeen City *St Machar Academy Aberdeenshire *Alford Academy *Fraserburgh Academy Angus *Arbroath Academy *Brechin High School Argyll & Bute *Islay High School *Rothesay Academy Clackmannanshire *Alloa Academy *Alva Academy *Lornshill Academy Dumfries and Galloway *Castle Douglas High School *Wallace Hall (Thornhill), Wallace Hall Dundee City *Braeview Academy East Ayrshire *Doon Academy East Dunbartonshire *St Ninian's High School, Kirkintilloch, St Ninian's High School East Lothian *Dunbar Grammar School East Renfrewshire *Barrhead High School Edinburgh City *Gracemount High School *Queensferry High School Falkirk *Braes High School Fife *Kirkcaldy High School *Kirkland High School Glasgow City *Castlemilk High School *Springburn Academy *St Margaret Mary's Secondary School *St. Paul's Hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schools Of Ambition
The Schools of Ambition programme, also called the Schools of Ambition initiative, was a government programme in Scotland that aimed to improve school character and performance by offering struggling secondary schools philanthropist money and an extra annual £100,000 in government funding for three years. This would then be spent towards implementing a transformation plan that could include environmental changes, investment into curricula and staff, and cooperation with businesses, sixth forms and the local community. Participating schools became Schools of Ambition, specialist schools that likely had a change in management, which aimed to stand out as innovating, leading schools that would inspire the youth. The scheme was launched by Jack McConnell's Labour–Liberal Democrat coalition government in 2005 and discontinued by Alex Salmond's SNP government in 2010. Before the launch of the programme, only seven out of Scotland's 386 secondary schools had specialist school status ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
