Hugh Reilly - The days of holding support staff hostage may be numbered

THE writing is on the wall for those who act as readers and scribes for pupils in need of support when sitting SQA examinations. Communication, Access, Literacy and Learning (CALL) Scotland has helped the SQA to produce digital test papers for 209 pupils across 48 schools.

Using digital papers, students work independently, can type answers, can click on the text and have it read out by the computer. Paul Nisbet, the man who helped develop the technology, believes that there has been an over-reliance on help for candida...