A new sports coaching qualification for schools is giving pupils better job prospects and making it easier for them to volunteer in their own community.
HEADTEACHERS' leaders have joined growing calls for the Scottish Government to ensure a level playing field for pupils sitting new secondary school exams.
PARENTS have called on the Scottish Government to give a clear national lead on the future roll-out of exams to prevent public confidence in the system being further eroded.
THE head of Scotland's schools inspectorate has hit out at the country's top performing education authority over its refusal to follow official advice on the introduction of new school exams.
The Scottish Parliament was accused in the Lords yesterday of "discriminating" against students from England, Wales and Northern Ireland over tuition fees.
DETAILS of savage reductions to the budgets of Scotland's colleges and a cut of more than £10 million to financial support for vulnerable students have been revealed.
THE Scottish Government last night warned councils not to follow the example of the country's top education authority in ignoring official advice on the introduction of a new secondary school curriculum.
6 February 2012
