Pamela Munn

In 1977 she led a review of the Scottish school curriculum ( The Munn Committee ) which was part of a review often referred to as 'Munn and Dunning' [3][4] The Munn and Dunning reports aimed to address the fact that a substantial minority of school leavers at the time held no nationally recognised certificate recording their achievements in school.[5] The Munn Committee reported on the curriculum and recommended "a restructuring of the curriculum in S3 and S4 to meet the needs of students of all abilities; the introduction of approaches to learning and teaching that reflected students’ needs and circumstances and the development of new courses which crossed traditional subject boundaries."[3] The new qualifications which followed were known as Standard Grades. Together with the Dunning Report, Munn's work provided the starting point for a focus on equality of access to education in Scotland.[6]

Munn was a member of other national committees and policy reviews including the Reference Group for the Donaldson Review of teacher education in Scotland 2010, the committee on Education for Citizenship in Scotland, the Curriculum Review Group, which established the principles underpinning Curriculum for Excellence[7] and the Review of Initial Teacher Education. Munn retired from the University of Edinburgh in 2010.[8] She continues to contribute to national debates and policy making about the state of education in Scotland.[9]