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New schools are often large and open plan, but the noise can make it harder for children to learn – and in the worst-case scenario, they can also be unsafe, MSPs hear

For two years running the proportion of school leavers from S6 has fallen and the proportions from S4 and S5 have increased – but why?

The authority is looking to save £27.8 million – but unions warn the move will negatively impact all children and lead to an increase in exclusions

Over three years the ‘education service reform’ would mean teacher numbers being cut in primaries and secondaries and a reduction in promoted posts

Around 400 staff will strike tomorrow in a dispute over pay that Unite says will have ‘a major impact’ on exams – but the SQA says the union is ‘scaremongering’

Stark inequalities in post-16 outcomes across the UK have been revealed by new research – with the problem ‘most acute’ in Wales