did ye ken

… is greater than the total population of the European Union.

In India, it’s the

top 42%

If you consider together 13 variations on the

spelling…

… ‘Mohamed’ was the

2nd most popular

name for a British boy

in 2006.

in a UNICEF survey of children living in relative poverty in the developed world.

lastBritain came

GROS expects the number of children in Scotland to drop by

15% over the next 25 years.

If you took If you took every jobevery job there is there is today in the UKtoday in the UK……

and Germanyand Germany

and Franceand France

and Italyand Italy

and Polandand Poland……

According to the Department of Trade and Industry…

The average Briton today will have 16

homes in their lifetime.

20 years ago it was 5.

According to former USAccording to former USSecretary of EducationSecretary of EducationRichard Riley…Richard Riley…

Scotland accounts for 0.2% of global carbon emissions

The refinery at Grangemouth accounts for 5% of the UK’s

total carbon emissions.

Scotland’s estimated energy potential from renewable sources is an output of 59.1GW

Our current consumption is 10.5GW

The only authorities in the UK with broadband Internet penetration above 50%...

are Shetland and Aberdeenshire.

(Stirling, Aberdeen and Moray make up the rest of the UK’s top five)

Nintendo invested more than

$140million

$140million

in research and development in 2002 alone

In the same period, the U.S. Federal Government spent less than half that much on research and innovation in education.

Wikipedia,the onlineuser-created encylopedia, has 8 million articles in 253 languages

1 visitor in 20 will edit its content.

By 2005, that figure had reached

500 billion

It is estimated that aweek’s worth of The Times…

That’s estimated to be more than all the information available for the previous 5000 years

For students starting a For students starting a four-year technical degree, four-year technical degree,

this means that . . .this means that . . .

half of what they learn in their first half of what they learn in their first

year of study will be outdated year of study will be outdated by the end of their third year.by the end of their third year.

have never lived in a world without the Internet.

The young people who left

school this year

The One Laptop Per Child Foundation is expecting to deliver

between 50 to 100 million computers a

year to children in developing countries

By 2023, when today’s P1s will be just 21 years old and beginning their (first) careers…