Education Archive

  • Teachers a step closer to pension change strikes
    Saturday 26 January 2013

    SCOTTISH teachers have moved a step closer to strike action over the failure of the Scottish Government to bring forward fresh proposals on pension changes.

  • Smartphones and iPads must be allowed in class
    Saturday 26 January 2013

    PUPILS should use their own smartphones and tablet computers during lessons despite growing fears over classroom disruption, according to Government experts.

  • No places at college for 5800 Scottish students
    Friday 25 January 2013

    CONCERNS that thousands of Scottish pupils missed out on a college place last summer have been justified with the publication of an official audit.

  • Bid to put the whizz-bang back into science lessons
    Friday 25 January 2013

    Faulty assumptions and folk wisdom are surely the sort of thing science in schools is supposed to challenge.

  • Students give support to under-fire Education Bill
    Friday 25 January 2013

    STUDENTS have backed new legislation that gives more power to ministers over the way Scottish universities are run.

  • New attack on education Bill
    Thursday 24 January 2013

    ONE of the most prestigious academic bodies in Scotland has attacked controversial new legislation that gives more power to ministers over the way universities are run.

  • Parents missing out on £1000 nursery funding
    Thursday 24 January 2013

    THOUSANDS of Scottish parents are missing out on up to £1000 in funding for nursery places because of the way the current Scottish Government system is run, a new report has warned.

  • Language strategy warning
    Thursday 24 January 2013

    A LEADING language expert has issued a warning over the Scottish Government's strategy of increasing language learning in primary schools.

  • University principals fear loss of autonomy
    Wednesday 23 January 2013

    THE head of a leading Scottish university has attacked controversial new legislation that gives more power to ministers as threatening the "responsible autonomy" of institutions and opening them up to meddling from future governments.

  • Merger plans for city's colleges
    Wednesday 23 January 2013

    THREE Glasgow colleges have moved a step closer to merging under the Scottish Government's reforms of the sector.

  • University principals voice concern over ministers' powers
    Tuesday 22 January 2013

    Concerns that the Scottish Government may soon have the power to interfere in the management of independent universities have prompted officials to reconsider elements of a new law on post-16 education, MSPs heard today.

  • University principals voice concern over ministers' powers
    Tuesday 22 January 2013

    Concerns that the Scottish Government may soon have the power to interfere in the management of independent universities have prompted officials to reconsider elements of a new law on post-16 education, MSPs heard today.

  • £100,000 to help pupils make grade
    Tuesday 22 January 2013

    HUNDREDS of secondary pupils across Glasgow are to receive extra lessons in the evening and during holidays as part of a drive to improve exam results.

  • School is awarded 'outstanding' inspection report
    Tuesday 22 January 2013

    A STATE school in one of the most deprived areas of Scotland has been given an outstanding inspection report.

  • Academic: Free higher learning is not centuries old
    Saturday 19 January 2013

    A LEADING academic has taken the Scottish Government to task over claims of a "centuries old tradition" of free higher education north of the Border.

  • Andrea Nolan appointed principal of Edinburgh Napier University
    Saturday 19 January 2013

    PROFESSOR Andrea Nolan has been appointed as the new principal of Edinburgh Napier University.

  • Councils bid to axe school closure appeals
    Friday 18 January 2013

    COUNCILS have drawn up plans to scrap the legal right of parents to appeal to the Scottish Government when their local school faces closure.

  • Union anger at £15m cuts to council's education budget
    Thursday 17 January 2013

    TEACHING unions have attacked proposals by Scotland's largest local authority to slash £15 million from its education budget – arguing the plans will damage learning.

  • Advanced Higher drive for pupils from poorer areas
    Wednesday 16 January 2013

    A SCOTTISH university will employ teachers for the first time in a £1 million project to enable school pupils from deprived areas to take Advanced Higher qualifications.

  • Warning over access to institutions
    Wednesday 16 January 2013

    MANY Scottish students will miss out on a university place as a result of Government moves to widen access, the Scottish Liberal Democrats have warned.

  • Legal careers access row
    Tuesday 15 January 2013

    FEWER than one in 12 entrants to law degree courses at Scottish universities come from deprived backgrounds, raising fears the profession is still a middle-class preserve.

  • Police investigate college funding
    Tuesday 15 January 2013

    POLICE have been asked to investigate one of Scotland's largest colleges amid allegations it fraudulently claimed European funding.

  • Academics attack 'zero hours' trend
    Monday 14 January 2013

    ACADEMICS have attacked the increasing use of zero- hours contracts at Scottish universities.

  • Appeal to MSPs on college budgets
    Monday 14 January 2013

    More than 2000 people have written to their MSPs, calling on them to reverse proposed cuts to college budgets.

  • Two colleges plan merger
    Saturday 12 January 2013

    Two colleges are planning to merge, delivering courses to around 20,000 students.

  • Threat to private schools as three fail charity test
    Saturday 12 January 2013

    SCOTTISH private schools that continue to charge high fees without providing sufficient bursaries should be stripped of charitable status, politicians have warned.

  • Visa crackdown loses vital students for universities
    Saturday 12 January 2013

    A CRACKDOWN on student visas to stop people entering the UK illegally has caused a slump of 25% in undergraduates from Pakistan and India coming to Scots universities.

  • Record tally of EU students
    Friday 11 January 2013

    RECORD numbers of students from the European Union were accepted by Scottish universities last year, raising fears over future pressure on places for Scots.

  • Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson backs campaign to save school from closure
    Friday 11 January 2013

    THE children's author behind the international bestseller The Gruffalo has joined the campaign against the closure of her local primary school on the outskirts of Glasgow.

  • More graduates with top honours
    Friday 11 January 2013

    THE proportion of graduates from Scottish universities being awarded a first class honours degree has risen by nearly 20% over the past five years.