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Wednesday 10 February 2010
Graduates of Scottish universities should pay a dedicated tax throughout their working lives to help fund higher education, a leading figure in the sector said yesterday.
Thousands of young Scots will miss out on a place at university later this year after new figures showed applications rising by almost one third as a result of the recession – the highest increase on record.
The unprecedented rise in applications to Scottish universities as a result of the recession comes as a genuine shock.
The true scale of the cuts facing teacher training in Scotland was laid bare yesterday after it emerged that 1,500 places are to be axed from Scottish universities.
Children as young as five are being targeted by a new campaign aimed at helping them stay safe online.
The UK Government has been accused of panicking after it announced a cut in the number of foreign students getting visas to study in Britain.
A Professor at a Scottish university can today be revealed as a former civil servant in a government controlled by Slobodan Milosevic, the late tyrant who stood trial for genocide.
A surprising trend in bad behaviour is taking hold in Scottish classrooms: according to a new report, rather than teachers struggling with pupils being too animated, noisy or disruptive, it is the opposite that is the growing issue – pupils are becoming too passive.
University principals in Scotland have accepted salary increases of nearly 8% on average, at a time when higher education is dealing with the tightest financial settlement since devolution.
One of Scotland’s best-performing education authorities yesterday accepted a legal ruling that found its plans to remove hundreds of homes from the catchment area of a flagship school were unlawful.
Lecturers’ leaders and university principals yesterday attacked the handling of a controversial £110 million fund to boost innovation in Scottish higher education.
Two primary schools in Glasgow could be closed as part of moves to rationalise the city’s estate and improve the quality of facilities.
Scottish schools are facing the most crippling cuts for decades as local authorities try to balance their books in the face of swingeing budget reductions.
Crippling council budget cuts are threatening the delivery of the Scottish Government’s flagship new school curriculum.
The head of an education authority has spoken out for the first time after a landmark ruling allowing a family to send their daughter to Scotland’s top-performing state Catholic secondary school.
There are almost 1000 fewer classroom support staff in Scottish schools since the SNP came to power, figures show.
Education Secretary Mike Russell has admitted that falling teacher numbers in Scotland may not be reversed.
A father sets off on a 500-mile march today to pay for his daughter’s place at blind school after being denied funding by a local authority – despite a tribunal ruling it was the best place for her to continue her education.
Scotland has maintained its world-leading position on science and research quality, according to a new report.
Council leaders in Glasgow have set themselves in direct conflict with the Scottish Government by announcing education priorities at odds with the wishes of ministers.
Scotland’s largest local authority will today snub Scottish Government ministers when it announces a raft of last-minute changes to its budgets.
Unions and politicians reacted with anger after 150 jobs were axed from the Scottish headquarters of the Student Loans Company.
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