Education and Skills Committee

1. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take item 3 in private. 2. STEM: The Committee will take evidence in a roundtable format from— Lorna Hay, Teacher, Pitteuchar Primary School; Professor Iain Hunter, Research Professor of Molecular Microbiology, University of Strathclyde; Dr Fiona McNeill, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University and representing the Learned Societies Group, RSE; Toni Scullion, Computing Science Teacher, St Kentigern's Academy; Liz Turner, Head of Corporate Responsibility, BT Group; Professor Ian Wall, Former Chair of the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education Committee (STEMEC); Talat Yaqoob, Director, Equate Scotland. 3. Review of evidence: The Committee will consider the evidence it heard earlier. 4. Scottish National Standardised Assessments (in private): The Committee will consider a draft report.