Education | Kezia Dugdale

Ahead of the elections to the Scottish Parliament on Thursday 5 May, Leader of the Scottish Labour Party, Kezia Dugdale, responds to the question: 

"What would you do to improve education?". 

In 30 seconds Kezia provides an overview of Scottish Labour's priorities for education and the public funding to support these.

Read Scottish Labour's Manifesto for Education 2016

SNP Report Card - 5 Major Broken Promises from their 2007 Manifesto

Five headline promises broken by the SNP in government 2007-11

• cutting class sizes to 18 for P1-P3 pupils
  - no progress made in Broughty Ferry primary schools
• replacing council tax with a local income tax
  - dropped but making a come back in their 2011 manifesto
• writing off student debt
  - no help for students who had already completed their degrees
• providing a £3000 grant for first time buyers
  - quietly dropped
• matching Labour's PPP school building brick for brick
  - SNP led Holyrood government did not fund a single brick to be laid at any new schools in Dundee and then claimed credit for schools built with local government funding

Scottish Labour's Pledge Card Holyrood Elections May 2011