Teaching in Scotland: Gaelic education reaps rewards

September 30 2009

Pupils learning Gaelic tend to perform better than their peers, it has been claimed.

Those who are taught in Scotland and receive Gaelic lessons can match and better their peers across a broad range of subjects, the Highland Council has reportedly claimed.

According to the BBC, the organisation believes the pupils have outperformed others in maths and English, citing figures from the SQA as evidence.

“Far from holding pupils back, as some critics would have it, this is proof again that pupils learning in Gaelic medium schools not only do well in Gaelic but match and better their peers in other subjects,” Hamish Fraser, chair of the Gaelic Committee, told the broadcaster.

He added that the organisation must do everything in its power to attract more teachers to the Gaelic medium.

A number of schools across Scotland offer Gaelic education; the first such schools offering lessons taught in Gaelic opened in 1985.

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