Paris Gourtsoyannis
Paris joined Holyrood in September 2011, and became education correspondent in May 2012.
Born in Canada into a Greek family, and raised in Belgium, he came to Scotland in 2005 to study at the University of Edinburgh, where he was involved with award-winning student publication The Journal.
Before working at Holyrood, Paris contributed to the Edinburgh Evening News, the Guardian and Guardian Local, and interned at think-tank Demos.
His beat takes in all areas of Scotland's education and skills sector, including early years, adult learning, and employability issues. Articles by Paris Gourtsoyannis:
- There might have been more eminent meetings of higher education leaders at the Scottish Parliament, but they won’t have taken place in a corridor. After the first Education and Culture Committee meeting at Stage 2 on the draft code of governance for Scottish universities, top figures...
- If politics is the art of the possible, Children’s Minister Aileen Campbell probably didn’t get the memo. The Scottish Government’s rhetoric on child poverty is uncompromising: it is committed to ‘Getting it Right for Every Child’ and making Scotland ‘The Best Place in the World to Grow...
- The latest round of local authority budgets this spring brought a host of bad headlines about cuts to education spending. One money-saving idea has only just crept out of the city chambers in Glenrothes, however – Fife Council is considering introducing a half day into the school week for pupils....
- Array Leading figures in further education have warned of the “unfair” burden of extra budgetary regulation if reclassification of Scottish colleges as public sector bodies is allowed to proceed. The Scottish Government revealed last week that as a result of a 2010 decision by the Office for...
- So much for the vaunted ‘Scandinavian model’. Denmark’s school pupils weren’t in class for most of April, thanks to a seemingly irresolvable dispute over conditions between the Danish local government association and the nation’s teachers. The scale of the industrial...
