Education

New £47k-a-year specialist teachers ‘can help plug recruitment gaps’

Scottish teachers' union announces further day of strike action in January

Scottish teachers' union announces further day of strike action in January
The Scottish Secondary Teachers’ Association (SSTA) said its members will strike on Wednesday, January 11.

Kevin Magnum with daughter Olivia

Agenda How to put the magic into school lessons

The 30th edition of Parent Power has published its definitive guide to secondary schools in the UK. (PA)

Scotland's best performing schools revealed for 2023 by the Sunday Times

A person clears the pathway at Rosslyn Chapel in Edingburgh following a light dusting of snow.

Where will it snow in Scotland as weather warnings extended?

Teachers across Scotland holding second day of strike action in pay dispute

Teachers across Scotland holding second day of strike action in pay dispute

Scots social work students call for bursary help while they are on placement

Scots social work students call for bursary help while they are on placement

Teachers on the picket line at Smithycroft Secondary School in Glasgow

Schools across Scotland disrupted as teachers take two days of strike action

A car has smashed into a building at the University of Dundee

Car ploughs into wall at University of Dundee

Libraries are a nutritious buffet for a young brain

Opinion Danny Scott: Why access to libraries and books are a human right for children

'Best in the UK': New principal details plans for University of the West of Scotland

PROFILE 'Best in the UK': New principal details plans for University of the West of Scotland

“We can’t do paperwork when we’ve got children in our care,” Caroline Edwards said.

Case study Mounting paperwork pushing childminders out of jobs and income

The man, now in his 50s, was abused by a teacher at Fettes College in Edinburgh.

Former Fettes pupil awarded £450k in damages in abuse case

Teachers strike at Glasgow school suspended for 'further talks' with council bosses

Teachers strike at Glasgow school suspended for 'further talks' with council bosses

Nicola Sturgeon

Sturgeon trying to 'play one set of workers against another' amid teachers' strike

'Alarming' levels of depression and food poverty amongst Scots students

'Alarming' levels of depression and food poverty amongst Scots students

First Minister rejects claim breast cancer services have 'collapsed' in Tayside

First Minister rejects claim breast cancer services have 'collapsed' in Tayside

How to make a success of raising the school age

How to make a success of raising the school age

The more support we can give students, the more we are helping them to achieve their potential, improve their opportunities, and ultimately, change their lives

Opinion Jon Vincent: Fears as investment in college mental health counsellors to end

Stewarton Academy in East Ayrshire

East Ayrshire to shut all schools as teachers plan new strike action

Secondary school strikes set to go ahead next week as teachers reject pay offer

Secondary school strikes set to go ahead next week as teachers reject pay offer

The SCMA revealed 1,926 childminding businesses have been forced to close since 2016. Chief executive of the SCMA Graeme McAlister warned that the industry had reached a

'That crisis is now here': Warning over staff leaving childminding Scottish sector

Staff members at Bannerman High will walk out on Tuesday - stock pic

Teachers to take further strike action at Glasgow school over violent pupils

Clare Sweeney, Head of Junior School, Kelvinside Academy

Agenda How to make a success of raising the school age

A pro-independence rally in Glasgow on Wednesday after the Supreme Court ruling

Letters: Indy campaign will go on even if General Election plan fails

Margaret Thatcher's government set the template for the privatisation of public utilities and services

Letters History shows that privatisation won't put the NHS back on its feet

Scottish teachers set to strike for sixteen consecutive days

Updated Scottish teachers set to strike for sixteen consecutive days in new year

nSTRIDE APS is an autologous – from within your own body – protein solution treatment

Sponsored Time to get back into your stride at Nuffield Health Glasgow Hospital

University of Strathclyde autumn graduations. Graduates walk from their graduation ceremony at the Barony Hall. Photograph by Colin Mearns. 13 November 2013.

Sunak's curb on foreign students would damage 'universities and Scottish economy'

Teachers take to the streets for first national strike over pay in nearly 40 years

Teachers take to the streets for first national strike over pay in nearly 40 years

Every school on the Scottish mainland will be shut

Teachers walk out in first national pay strike in almost 40 years

Teachers' union warns of more strikes before Christmas

Teachers' union warns of more strikes before Christmas

Is dualling the A9 really essential to reduce the number of accidents there?

Letters We wouldn't need to waste fortunes on road upgrades if we drove by the rules

Kenny Ritch, husband of women's rights campaigner Emma Ritch, who died suddenly this year and has been awarded a posthumous doctorate by Glasgow Caledonian University

Husband's poignant tribute to feminist campaigner honoured after sudden death

Scottish Government offer teachers 5 per cent pay uplift in bid to see off strike

Updated Teachers' strike to go ahead on Thursday as EIS reject 'kick in the teeth' pay offer

SNP minister branded 'embarrassment to Scotland' in angry clash over teacher pay

SNP minister branded 'embarrassment to Scotland' in angry clash over teacher pay

Teachers in Scotland will take two days of targeted strike action

Scottish teachers' union announces two days of strike action in December

Peat & Diesel will showcase will play to thousands of schoolchildren

Peat & Diesel announce major Celtic Connections schoolchildren gig

The University of Glasgow has appointed a female academic to head up the medical school following a sexism inquiry

PREMIUM University appoints woman to lead faculty after 'distressing sexism' row

Read it and weep: No library for 100,000 Scots primary pupils despite Scot Gov drive

PREMIUM Read it and weep: No library for 100,000 Scots primary pupils despite Scot Gov drive

Should Britain be doing more to help countries like Pakistan, recently devastated by flood?

Letters: Shame on Hunt for failing to increase our overseas aid

Catriona Stewart: Boy troubles? How feminism is the solution to male woes

Catriona Stewart: Boy troubles? How feminism is the solution to male woes

Scots teachers to escalate strike action as pay talks break down

Scots teachers to escalate strike action as pay talks break down

School strikes set to take place across Scotland - who is affected

The run-down School strikes set to take place across Scotland - who is affected

The Coalition Government's Chancellor and Prime Minister, George Osborne and David Osborne, pictured during an Autumn Statement debate in the Commons during their spell in power

Letters: Best hunker down as Tories return to the mistakes of 2010

Parents at too small school 'thoroughly disappointed' after John Swinney snub

Parents at too small school 'thoroughly disappointed' after John Swinney snub

John Lewis was praised for featuring a care experienced child in its Christmas ad

Exclusive Care experienced children in Glasgow 'outperforming' pupils nationally

Christmas appeal launch: ‘Children deserve to have books to fire their imagination’

Christmas appeal launch: ‘Children deserve to have books to fire their imagination’

Nicola Sturgeon, Rishi Sunak and Michael Gove at a meeting at the British-Irish Council summit in Blackpool

Letters: It's high time Sturgeon brought compromise to the UK table

Swinney to meet parents over SNP council's 'half the size it needs to be' £18m school

Swinney to meet parents over SNP council's 'half the size it needs to be' £18m school

Members at Scotland's largest teaching union overwhelmingly back strike action in a pay dispute.

'Increasingly angry': Scottish teachers vote to strike over pay

Sabhal Mòr Ostaig and (inset) Professor James Hunter

Historian says unique Gaelic-only college should get university status

Should Scotland have an independent energy planning authority?

Letters We must not leave our energy needs in the hands of politicians

The Good Shepherd Centre

RECRUITMENT Want to help vulnerable youngsters? Then a career awaits at The Good Shepherd Centre

Have we became complacent about Covid after two years of high-intensity campaigns? Picture: Jane Barlow/PA

Letters We have all but given up the Covid fight and will pay the price in the lives of the elderly