Scotland

Long-held beliefs about the purpose and nature of school education are being challenged in Scotland and far beyond, say Christopher Chapman and Graham Donaldson

Shortcomings in approaches to reading, writing and listening and talking were found in ‘thematic inspection’ of literacy in Scotland’s schools

Modest growth at Higher level offers hope amid ongoing concerns about declining popularity of languages

Scotland’s new national qualifications body promises a bigger role for teachers and school leaders and will review ‘all the qualifications we have in our portfolio’

We look at the ambition and significance of the EIS teaching union’s manifesto for the upcoming Scottish Parliament election

A former primary headteacher will step into the role after the culmination of a long recruitment process

Scotland’s education secretary ‘urgently’ wants to find ‘creative ways’ to encourage primary teachers to retrain for the secondary sector to help with staffing problems

EIS members are to vote again on strike action over workload, with the teaching union hitting out at ‘restrictive’ laws that meant it failed to win a mandate from its initial ballot

Glenalmond College in Perthshire has unveiled plans to open a campus in Thailand later this year

The growing gender gap in computing science is worrying not only for equality but also the economy – but there are practical, proven strategies schools leader can adopt, says Toni Scullion

Scottish online learning platform has seen more than a million student enrolments since 1999, but university host warns the current funding model is ‘not sustainable’

Schools’ data analysis must not be the preserve of a few members of promoted staff, says Alan Shields