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Scottish Government's Audit of Scots Language Provision
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The National Conversation in Scots
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Res
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Parliamentary Motions on the National Languages Strategy
S3M-1768.1 Hugh O’Donnell: International Education— As an amendment to motion (S3M-1768) in the name of Maureen Watt, insert at end "and calls for the Scottish Government to bring forward a comprehensive national languages strategy including a rolling programme to introduce a second langu... more
Children should have the chance to rediscover Scots says Minister
Maureen Watt, the Minister for Schools and Skills, has said that children should have the chance to "rediscover" Scots. Writing in the Sunday Herald, Watt (pictured right) says it would be a good thing for people to get to know more about the language. In the article she also describes how the go... more
Conversation Now Translated into Scots
The Scottish Government’s 'National Conversation' document, published in the autumn of 2007, has now been translated into the Scots language. Ministers Linda Fabiani and Maureen Watt are to be congratulated for taking the decision to include Scots. Both of the ministers, who are currently explo... more
Kay calls on SNP to support Scots culture
Scots broadcaster and writer, Billy Kay, has urged the Scottish government to find ways to support Scots culture. In a letter to Culture Minister, Linda Fabiani, Kay, the author of Scots, the Mither Tongue describes his “shock” on hearing the news that the Scottish Arts Council is to cut fund... more
MSP insists on help for Scottish Dictionaries
On 9 April Dr Bill Wilson, MSP for the West of Scotland, lodged a Scottish Parliamentary motion calling for a stamp to be issued to commemorate the 200 anniversary of the first Scots language dictionary. He also called for funding in order to create a complete modern Scots dictionary. Wilson cont... more
Falkirk MSP urges support for Scots
Cathy Peattie, MSP for Falkirk East, has called on the Scottish Parliament to recognize the unsatisfactory disadvantage with which organisations working for the traditional arts and culture of Scotland have to labour. It is the contention of the Falkirk MSP that many organisations who work to pro... more
MSP Asks About the Use of Scots Language in Scottish Schools
Dr Bill Wilson, SNP MSP for the West of Scotland, has written to the education directors of all of Scotland’s cooncils to ask whether in-service days for teachers cover discrimination against Scots speakers, and/or the benefits of including the Scots language within the curriculum.
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Allocate funding for Scots say academics
A group of academics have told the Scottish government that they need to do more to support the Scots language. In a letter to Culture Minister, Linda Fabiani, members of the Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster say they are “astonished” that the Arts Council has decided... more
Meeting of Cross-Party Group on Scots Language
The meeting of the Cross-Party Group on the Scots Language will be held in the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. Those wishing to attend should notify the Parliament in advance. more
