National Annual Lecture

Event: National Lecture 2008 - Elish Angiolini the Lord Advocate for Scotland
Date: 1 October 2008
Venue: National Gallery for Scotland, Edinburgh
Organiser: GTC Scotland

Summary: The General Teaching Council for Scotland is committed to bringing top quality speakers to deliver our National Lecture series.  Speakers who are leaders in their particular field and who can contribute to educational debate in Scotland.

A strength of the Council is that it encourages ideas that will impact on educational thought and the professionalism of teachers. 

This year's annual lecture will be delivered by Elish Angiolini the Lord Advocate for Scotland. Appointed the first female Solicitor General for Scotland in 2001, she was also the first Procurator Fiscal and the first solicitor to hold the post. In 2006, she was appointed Lord Advocate, the head of Scotland's prosecution service, the first woman in the 500-year history of that post.

Contact: Complimentary tickets are available by emailing nationallecture@gtcs.org.uk.

A list of previous speakers who took part in this event are listed below:

Speaker	Year
Christopher Brookmyre	2007
Lord David Puttnam	2006
Baroness Warnock	2005
Sir Tom Hunter	2004
Baroness Helena Kennedy	2003
Clive Fairweather	2002
Professor Sally Brown	2001
Sir Stewart Sutherland	2000