Education Scotland and the Scottish Qualifications Authority: consultation

Responding to this Consultation

We are inviting responses to this consultation by 26 November 2021.

Please respond to this consultation using the Scottish Government's consultation hub, Citizen Space. Access and respond to this consultation online. You can save and return to your responses while the consultation is still open. Please ensure that consultation responses are submitted before the closing date.

If you are unable to respond using our consultation hub, please send your response, including the completed Respondent information Form which includes the consultation questions and can be found in the supporting documents section, to:

EducationReform@gov.scot or by post to:

Handling your response

If you respond using the consultation hub, you will be directed to the About You page before submitting your response. Please indicate how you wish your response to be handled and, in particular, whether you are content for your response to published. If you ask for your response not to be published, we will regard it as confidential, and we will treat it accordingly.

All respondents should be aware that the Scottish Government is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and would therefore have to consider any request made to it under the Act for information relating to responses made to this consultation exercise.

To find out how we handle your personal data, please see our privacy policy.

Next steps in the process

Where respondents have given permission for their response to be made public, and after we have checked that they contain no potentially defamatory material, responses will be made available to the public online at Scottish Government consultations. If you use the consultation hub to respond, you will receive a copy of your response via email.

Following the closing date, all responses will be analysed and considered along with any other available evidence to help Professor Muir. Responses will be published where we have been given permission to do so. An analysis report will also be published.

Comments and complaints

If you have any comments about how this consultation exercise has been conducted, please send them to the contact address above or at EducationReform@gov.scot.