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Gaelic versions of these were also made available. Until 2014, in the Higher section, Biology, English, Geography, Maths, Chemistry, History, Modern Studies, Physics and the Scotland-only subject Scottish Gaelic were available. The Higher section was also updated to the new Curriculum for Excellence qualification.
BBC Gàidhlig produces a number of programmes for the Gaelic-language television channel, BBC Alba, which is a joint venture between the BBC and MG Alba. [ 2 ] Some of BBC Gàidhlig's more notable programming includes the international issues magazine Eòrpa ( Europe ), children's programme Dè a-nis?
BBC Radio nan Gàidheal is a Gaelic-language radio station, founded in Stornoway and broadcast from 1985 to 89 under the name Radio Nan Eilean, when it joined with other BBC Scotland radio stations (mainly Inverness and BBC's HQ in Glasgow). It is available around Scotland on FM and internationally online with an annual budget of £4 million.
Celtic-language television channels are available in any countries, worlds, places, etc. Many speakers of languages like any others to the television channels and languages such as Welsh and Breton have demanded television channels in their own languages for many years and have been successful, with Scottish Gaelic speakers joining them with the launch of BBC Alba in 2008, but languages like ...
BBC Scotland also produces the Scottish opt-out sections of British-wide programmes such as Sunday Politics and Children in Need. [44] [45] Until 2010, a high number of Gaelic programmes were broadcast on BBC One and Two Scotland before transferring over to BBC Alba. Its flagship programmes, which both started in 1993, are Dè a-nis? and Eòrpa.
In the P/Q classification schema, the first language to split off from Proto-Celtic was Gaelic. It has characteristics that some scholars see as archaic, but others see as also being in the Brittonic languages (see Schmidt). In the Insular/Continental classification schema, the split of the former into Gaelic and Brittonic is seen as being late.
The first BBC radio broadcast in the Gaelic language was aired throughout Scotland on Sunday 2 December 1923; this was a 15-minute religious address by Rev. John Bain, recorded in the High United Free Church in Aberdeen.
In 1888, the Scottish Leaving Certificate was established in response to the terms of the Education Act of 1872. It was designed to have higher and lower levels assessed as individual subjects including Mathematics, Ancient or Modern Foreign Language, Science, etc.