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- ↑ Scottish Government website, Curriculum for Excellence: Religious and Moral Education 2011
- ↑ Craigie High School website, RME page, retrieved 2023-10-04
- ↑ SQA website, course specification for Higher Religious, Moral and Philosophical Studies (printed 2019)', retrieved 2023-04-10
- ↑ Henry Hepburn, "Religious education makes a comeback", Times Educational Supplement , 18 March 2011.
- ↑ SQS website, 2023 course report
- ↑ University of the Highlands and Islands website, MPSRE page
