In the mid-70s, Stirling University had one of the first access courses, for mature students with ‘limited’ school-leaving qualifications. I was there. So were Jack McConnell, John Reid, Mick Connarty and Richard Leonard. Larry Flanagan, EIS General Secretary was there too. They were all sort-of hard left back then but ended up in the Labour Party, to get a career. Though my sentiments then were close to the hard left, I remained more a Groucho Marxist. All the hard left guys I knew were boring and humourless. I was then a teacher and teacher educator from 1980 until getting a … Continue reading Scottish teachers being duped by former Stirling Uni 70’s cabal?