Scotland's Education Standards Are Dropping How good is the Scottish education system? Scotland's educators used to boast about its excellent standards in education, as the best in the UK. This has not been the case for some time and the downward trend shows no signs of reversing as evidenced by the publication of the OECD's…
Scottish Secondary School League Tables and Performance Review Updated in May 2024 using data published for 2022-23 year exams. Scottish secondary school ranking data is published annually by the Scottish Government and is based on results obtained in the Scottish higher exams. The results are reported widely by the press as Scottish secondary school league…
Scotland NHS Post-Covid19 Inpatient Analysis and Activity Backlog Latest data for Scottish hospital inpatient activity up to 31 December 2023 shows a continuation of the backlog of 634,596 patient spells which is the equivalent of 6 months worth of activity. During the Covid-19 pandemic hospital inpatient activity levels fell dramatically as the NHS focussed its…
Scotland’s Secondary School League Tables and Maps Updated for 2022-23 exam data published April 2024 Scotland’s secondary schools have been ranked according to pupil attainment in the 2022-23 academic year Higher examinations which was published April 2024 by the Scottish Government. Data was provided for 355 schools which were ranked based on the percentage of…
Scottish Primary Schools Ranks and League Tables Current Year 2023 This website collates primary school information for the whole of Scotland based on the 1989 primary schools included in the performance data was prepared by the Scottish Government (Scot Gov). Because there are so many primary schools this page provides summary level data and a…
Airbnb Scotland Survey 2023 This post follows previous surveys in 2021 and 2022. The primary aim of the survey was to collect data showing the distribution and numbers of homes listed on Airbnb across Scotland. The evaluation utilised the same methodology as the 2022 survey and was carried out during November 2023. The total number…
Scottish Crime Map by Local Authority Wards For the first time (late 2023) the Scottish Government has published recorded crime data at Local Authority ward level. This post summarises the data and shows crime levels (normalised to crimes per 1000 population) for each ward on an interactive map of Scotland (see Figure 1). While there…