Publication - Consultation paper

Prescribing the minimum annual number of learning hours: consultation

Published: 21 March 2023
From: Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills, +2 more … Director of Education Reform, Director of Learning
Directorate: Learning Directorate, +2 more … Early Learning and Childcare Directorate, Education Reform Directorate
Part of: Education
ISBN: 9781805256410

This consultation sets out Ministers’ proposal to set in law the minimum

number of learning hours provided in public and grant aided schools, and invites

views on this proposal and its implementation.

9. Proposal

9.1 Scottish Ministers propose to:

Prepare regulations that prescribe the minimum number of learning hours that must be provided in local authority and grant aided schools in an academic year;
Prescribe the number of learning hours at 950 hours for primary schools and 1045 for secondary schools; and
Prescribe the circumstances where fewer than the prescribed number of learning hours may be delivered.

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