PROPOSALS to spend up to £15million on installing 7400 computers in Glasgow schools are both bold and ambitious.

Until recently city pupils spent their days in dilapidated, under-resourced classrooms.

It is little surprise, therefore, Glasgow has long had the worst educational attainment levels of any place in Scotland.

However, in recent years far-sighted decision-making and investment has helped close the gap with the rest of the country.

Nursery, primary and secondary pupils are now generally in new or refurbished buildings and more city youngsters are passing Standard and Higher Grades.

Introducing more schoolchildren to new technology at an early stage will only speed up the advances being made.

Councillors are to be applauded for devising this scheme. Giving it the green light will further demonstrate their willingness to invest in the future of the city. Clarity needed on child protection

RULES to protect our children are a laughing stock.

When parents are told to fork out £20 for a Disclosure Scotland check before being allowed to help their kids on a school bus there is clearly something amiss.

Whether this is a result of too strict an interpretation on the rules or not is immaterial.

What matters is that there continues to be misunderstandings about everything from school trips to photographing pupils' nativity plays.

Justice minister Cathy Jamieson needs to ensure councils and other organisations are given better guidelines.

Maybe then we'll see an end to such lunacy.