The Scottish Government's Consultation on a Strategy for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education and Training

As an amendment to motion S5M-02418 in the name of Shirley-Anne Somerville (The Scottish Government's Consultation on a Strategy for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education and Training), leave out from "and recognises" to end and insert "in particular, notes that, two years on, there has been no response from the Scottish Government to the call for fully trained science teachers in primary schools made by the Royal Societies and no reversal of the recent and damaging cuts to the numbers of Scottish secondary school teachers in key STEM subjects, and therefore considers that urgent action is required to develop STEM skills, knowledge and capability if Scotland is to meet the demands and challenges of the economy and build the society it wants to see now and in the future."