Revision website hots up due to cold weather
The Scholar programme saw 25 per cent more pupils in the Lothians logging on to revise than this time last year, which bosses say is a direct result of schools being closed due to the bad weather.
Professor Phillip John, dean of Science and Engineering at Heriot-Watt and executive chair of the Scholar forum, said: "
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"Scholar is already a well-established resource, available to all fifth and sixth-year pupils in Scotland, and we typically receive around 750,000 hits a month."