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Scottish school strikes to go ahead as unions to reject 'final and best offer'
Support staff are set to walk out from Tuesday September 26.

Councils make 'best and final offer' in bid to avert school strikes

Councils make 'best and final offer' in bid to avert school strikes

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Schools will shut next week if strikes go ahead

Full List Scotland's school strikes: Which local authorities are affected?

Glasgow's LEZ is supported by children

Parents backing Glasgow's low emissions zone have a challenge for the city council

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Nostalgia abounds for childhoods past

OPINION Catriona Stewart: Disobedience is the finest quality to value in children

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Scottish climate research could prove crucial in maintaining global food supply

Work carried out at a Raac school

Updated SNP ministers held 'secretive' Raac meetings more than six months ago

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Teachers say they are overworked due to short staffing

Letters: We need to get back to national standards for teacher numbers

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A close up of the Bullion Stone of Invergowrie

The Bullion Stone of Invergowrie: solving Scotland's 1000-year-old Pictish mystery

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The King opens multi-million pound farming and rural skills centre in Ayrshire

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Child with Ostrero workshop crafts pieces

Baffled by the term circular economy? The answer, says campaigner, is education

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Schoolchildren help mark 5 years of V&A. Photo PA.

Children help V&A Dundee mark its fifth birthday

The University of St Andrews has been named the top university in the UK

Scottish university named best in UK knocking Oxbridge from top spot

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Levels of unhappiness among young women and girls has increased

OPINION Catriona Stewart: It’s no wonder girls are so unhappy – what are we doing about it?

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Plans to rebuild crumbling schools in the Highlands in the next five years have been delayed by cash-strapped Highland Council

Pupils have 'no dignity' at crumbling school as SNP councillor 'sorry' for axed plan

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The University of Glasgow

Opinion Mark Smith: The action we need to take on free speech

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Strike action could go ahead across the country

Scottish school strike closures loom in 12 days after council pay dispute impasse

Gordonstoun (Andrew Milligan/PA)

Gordonstoun bans phones in the classroom and limits use overnight

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Should a limited form of corporal punishment be reintroduced in our schools?

Letters: School violence: we must either punish the pupils or punish the parents

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Gilruth asks MSPs to be 'more thoughtful' after kids exams results used in SNP attack

Gilruth asks MSPs to be 'more thoughtful' after SNP colleague 'weaponises pupils'

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School classroom stock image

Scots high school closes over collapse-prone concrete fears

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A good school library can make a huge difference

Opinion Rosemary Goring: We need to make a noise about the threat to our libraries

Former Nato chief Lord Robertson becomes chancellor of his old university

The High School continues to build on its 900 years by offering a place where all children excel

INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS A long history of achievement at The High School of Glasgow

A particular strength of the school is the smooth transition between the Junior and Senior stages.

INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS A new adventure beckons every day at Wellington School

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The Secret Teacher 'Curriculum for Excellence is flawed... but it's better to embrace it'

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Hutchesons' teachers strike

Hutchesons' Grammar: Dispute at Humza Yousaf's former school settled after strikes

Do enough parents step up to the plate when it comes to preparing their children for education?

Letters Stop picking on teachers and put pressure on the parents

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Founded in 1859 by the Society of Jesus, the school has grown to become one the most successful independent schools for boys and girls ages three to 18.

INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS St Aloysius: where pupils learn to be the best they can be

Head teacher Tanya Davie said support for the school had come in from all over the world

INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS How Kilgraston School found strength in adversity

Pupils from Hutchesons’ Grammar School explore a wide range of subjects to spark their passions

Sponsored Hutchesons' has a formula for pupils to reach their potential

Doug Marr: Private schools can’t leave equality and fairness to others

University of Strathclyde Business School

Sponsored Why the next generation of top Scottish entrepreneurs can bank on MBA course

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Fairview delivers the world-renowned International Baccalaureate (IB) curriculum

Sponsored Fairview School enjoys success on the international stage

Agenda: Tackling the problem of digital immortality

Richard Lochhead

Richard Lochhead: We must maximise the enormous potential of AI

University of Glasgow launches new Centre for Data Science and AI

University of Glasgow launches new Centre for AI and Data Science

Exclusive The two smiles of Jenny Gilruth and the challenges facing the education secretary

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Education secretary, Jenny Gilruth

Exclusive Education secretary Jenny Gilruth on Scottish schools, ambition and reality

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The opening ceremony of the UCI Championships

Will the UCI Championships have any real legacy for ordinary Glasgow cyclists?

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Young people are often castigated for using filler words such as

Opinion Lennie Pennie: Here is the, um, truth about those filler words we use

Pupils taking exams

Exclusive SNP grassroots demand more language teaching provision in Scottish schools

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Education secretary, Jenny Gilruth

Exclusive Education secretary Jenny Gilruth on earning the trust of Scotland's teachers

Should we reform the tax system to invest more in education and skills?

Letters It is a tragedy that the UK refuses to invest in its people

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Agenda: Here's how Dundee outshines England's golden triangle

Shirley-Anne Somerville

Updated SNP will 'spend what we need' on Raac school repairis amid UK funding row

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School could be closed by strikes

Scottish schools to be hit with strikes as unions walkout to spark likely closures

Exclusive Ambition and investment will deliver the international education young people deserve

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First Minister Humza Yousaf

Updated Yousaf to review school building strategy 'through Raac lens' as 40 now identified

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Scottish college workers are striking in a pay row

Strike action today by Scottish college workers ‘deeply disappointing’, say bosses

The Scottish Government is proposing to outlaw the sale of single-use vapes

Letters It would be an act of utter folly to ban single-use vapes

A file photo of students at a university graduation ceremony. Picture: PA

University marking boycott which saw students graduate without results is called off