Scotland

Next week’s Scottish Budget will decide whether key education policies succeed, states the EIS in a letter seeking assurances from the first minister and the finance secretary

The schools’ inspectorate should speak ‘truth to power’, former Ofsted chief inspector tells conference on the future of inspection in Scotland

The importance of mentors cannot be underestimated, says Jamie Thom, as they can make or break a student teacher’s placement

Experienced teachers need to be given the ‘time and capacity’ to give more support to new entrants to the profession, says Scotland’s teaching watchdog

Plans for all senior students to undertake a project were recently rejected by the Scottish government, but it name-checked several organisations that had impressed with their interdisciplinary work. Emma Seith speaks to one of them

Primary school headteachers have been told to prioritise their own health and happiness – because they are ‘the most important resource’ in their schools

With many schools reassessing their use of social media platforms, Nuzhat Uthmani weighs up the benefits and the potential challenges of having an online presence

Opposition politicians blame the Scottish government, saying the drop in public satisfaction is a ‘damning indictment of the SNP’s record on schools’

Councils ‘baulked’ at putting in place safety measures in schools during the pandemic because of ‘the potential costs’, teaching union boss tells Scottish Covid Inquiry

As SQA prepares to change into Qualifications Scotland in late 2025, it says it wants to ‘win back trust’ among teachers and students and use technology to ‘streamline’ services

How boys perceive masculinity can profoundly affect their lives in school and beyond – so they need non-judgmental spaces to explore their identities, School Leaders Scotland told

Teachers felt their lives – and those of their families – mattered less than political and economic considerations, EIS boss tells Covid inquiry