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The party is proposing that students as young as 14 should be able to leave school – but only if they take on an apprenticeship or go to college

Scotland has some of the worst persistent absence rates in the UK, with Glasgow revealing that 738,625 days were lost to absence in 2022-23 across its primaries

The SNP’s mission to close the disadvantage-related attainment gap has become a ‘defining failure’, Scottish Labour leader tells first minister

There’s an ‘urgent need for improvement’, says the watchdog – as it questions whether schools can cope with the almost eight-fold increase in additional support needs pupils

New interim CEO vows to ‘serve with humility’ and learn from the past ‘by being more open to criticism, challenge and scrutiny’

Official figures also show more Scottish students leaving school earlier – over 8,000 school leavers were in S4 in 2023-24, at just over 14 per cent of the cohort