The 13-year-old boy, from a Glasgow secondary school, was caught with a ceremonial dagger in his bag earlier this year. (more…)
In Scotland we are all being encouraged to aspire to make our country “the best place to grow up”. This is encouraging – we know that politicians and professionals across all sectors are working hard to raise the bar in terms of education, health and wellbeing. Among these aspirations is improving the positive destinations of our children and young people and ensuring access to education is free and accessible to all. (more…)
The measures have been introduced to combat the increasingly high number of applications. Aberdeen University has become the first to make it more difficult to get a place on some of its courses after an eight per cent increase in applications for this year. (more…)
The Children and Young People Bill will entitle three and four year olds to 600 hours of free early learning nursery education per year. (more…)
The ballot by the EIS, which represents 80% of Scotland’s teaching professionals, was held on a consultative basis, to gauge their willingness to strike. (more…)
Michael Russell, the Education Secretary, made the announcement during a speech at the University of Glasgow last night. (more…)
Labour challenged the government to withdraw its Post-16 Education (Scotland) Bill. (more…)
There were a 257,913 full and part-time students at college in 2011-12, down 121,320 from 2007-08, Scottish Funding Council figures show. (more…)
A study by university academics has cast doubts over the benefits of the Healthy Respect programme in Scottish schools. It combined school-based sex education with youth friendly sexual health services, media campaigns and joint working between health services, local government and the voluntary sector. (more…)
The petition by mother-of-one Veronica Wikman, 48, requests that the city council conducts a vote among councillors to remove religious observance (RO) from non-denominational state schools, both primary and secondary. (more…)
The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) has criticised the “complexity” of the changes proposed by the Scottish government. (more…)
The powerful Committee of Scottish Chairs wants the Scottish government to scrap draft legislation that would allow ministers far-reaching controls over institutions. Among the proposals in the Post-16 Bill is enshrining the limit of £9,000 annual fees for Rest of the UK (RUK) students in law. (more…)
The climbdown by the Scottish Finance Secretary came after a campaign by students and principals warning that there would be a reduction in places and courses in the college sector at the most vital time for the economy. (more…)
