Education
Scots parents face £30 fine if children miss exams
PARENTS in one of Scotland’s largest education authorities have been warned they face £30 fines if their children fail to turn up for end-of-year exams.
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Aberdeen Council to spend £860k on school phones
A SCOTTISH council which is currently consulting on a series of controversial school closures sparked outrage by announcing proposals to spend an estimated £860,000 to ensure every pupil has access to a smartphone in the classroom.
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UHI offers first islands studies course
STUDENTS around the world are being offered an islands studies course – the first of its kind in Scotland – at the University of the Highlands and Islands.
Parents angry at plan to swap school headteachers
ANGRY parents have attacked a decision by education chiefs to swap the headteachers of Castlebrae and Forrester high schools.
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Scottish teachers warn of increased workload
A survey has highlighted high levels of increased workload and continuing concerns about the new curriculum among nursery and primary teachers.
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Edinburgh student makes handbag from cow stomach
An Edinburgh-based student is certain to divide opinions after creating a handbag line using the stomach lining of a Highland cow.
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Fiona McCade: Popularity comes at too high a price
When I was about seven years old, I remember being sent out of class for sobbing uncontrollably. Why? Because I was wearing woolly tights.
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Scottish independence: Scots students could suffer
SCOTLAND’s universities would be inundated with applications from UK students looking for free tuition should the country become independent, it has been claimed.
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‘Facebook trolls forced me to quit school’
A SCOTS teenager yesterday told how she had to quit school after she was bullied by cruel Facebook trolls.
Hugh Reilly: Teaching profession needs to man up
When I joined Strathclyde Police in 1975, many of my older colleagues hailed from the Highlands or one of the many Hebridean gulag archipelagos.
3 commentsBrian Wilson: Millport marine centre must be saved
On one Scottish island, there is a centre of academic excellence which predates the University of the Highlands and Islands by fully a century. That island is Cumbrae in the Firth of Clyde.
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‘One in eight students considers suicide’
ONE in five students considers themselves to have a mental health problem and around one in eight has suicidal thoughts.
Schools to get cash for WWI battlefield trips
EVERY secondary school in Scotland is to be offered financial help to take pupils on educational visits to key battlefields of the First World War as part of the Scottish Government’s plans to commemorate the centenary of the Great War.
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Star head nominated in national awards by pupils
A headteacher who “goes the extra mile” at a city special school has been put forward by her pupils for a national award.
Jane Devine: Students right to demand high quality
When my aunt’s pedigree dog entered into a clandestine relationship with a farm collie, my aunt was left with nice offspring she didn’t want and couldn’t sell for the type of fee they might have otherwise attracted had the sire been properly selected.
Researchers want secrets of mussels
A DIVING expedition is under way to uncover the secrets of giant horse mussels on Scotland’s seabed.
Florists and biologists in Chelsea Flower Show drive
IT must rank as one of the most bizarre collaborations in the history of floral art - the national branch of Scottish flower arrangers and marine biologists from Aberdeen University.
Cows trample former Edinburgh lecturer to death
A RETIRED Edinburgh University professor has been trampled to death by a rampaging herd of cows while out walking his dog.
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Stirling student smashes tutor door for poor grade
A STUDENT at Stirling University took a baseball bat to a lecturer’s door after receiving a poor grade on an essay.
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Scottish Independence: Schools to be battle ground
Secondary schools are set to become key political battlegrounds as pro and anti-independence groups go head-to-head to sway first-time 16-year-old voters.
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Banking’s image puts off graduates - Lloyds chief
THE damage caused to banking’s image by the financial crisis is making it more difficult to recruit graduates into the industry, the head of one of Britain’s biggest banks has warned.
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Hugh Reilly: SSTA’s D-day plans show martial naiveté
LAST weekend, anti-teacher forces picked up belligerent chatter emanating from the GHQ of the Scottish Secondary Teachers Association.
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Emergency plan to stop overcrowding at 9 schools
EMERGENCY plans are being drawn up to boost capacity at nine city primary schools as pressure on the Capital’s overcrowded classrooms intensifies.
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Half of Scots back right to send child to Gaelic school
ALMOST half of Scots believe parents should have the right to send their children to a Gaelic school, research shows.
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Claire Black: Reading time is precious and I don’t want to waste it on Dan Brown
DAN Brown has a new book out this week. I confess I am underwhelmed.
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Boroughmuir campaigners say new site ‘too small’
COMMUNITY leaders have attacked plans to cram Boroughmuir High pupils into a new building they claim will not be big enough to hold them.
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Report: Student loans body funding ‘inadequate’
RESOURCES at the Scottish Government agency that provides financial support for students are “inadequate for the task”, a review has concluded.
Teachers ‘suspicious of politicians’ over pensions
Teachers are being treated as “patsies” by governments in negotiations about pensions, a leading union member has warned.
Teachers’ leader calls for ‘D-day invasion’
THE head of one of Scotland’s largest teaching unions will today call for a “D-day invasion” against the attacks of politicians, “ill-informed parents” and “out of control youngsters”.
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Half of teachers considered quitting over past year
JUST over half of Scottish teachers have considered leaving the profession during the past year, a survey has found.
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Experts to revamp Castlebrae High
EDUCATION chiefs have scrapped a proposal to turn Castlebrae High into an annexe of Portobello High and announced they would draft in a national team of experts to revitalise the embattled secondary.
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Michael Kelly: Let students pick their own rectors
WE might not agree with the choices made, but universities should resist interference in elections from outside, writes Michael Kelly
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SAAS issues apology after student funds delayed
THE authority which hands out funding to university students has been forced to apologise after more than 30,000 were left without vital bursary payments.
Now lecturers condemn new code for universities
TWO of the largest teaching unions have become the latest group to attack a new code of governance for Scotland’s universities.
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Portobello school campaigners in Holyrood petition
CAMPAIGNERS fighting for a new high school in Portobello Park have launched a public petition in support of a new Private Bill which would allow education chiefs to build on the green space.
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End ‘cruel’ sets for primary children - headmaster
THE head of an Edinburgh private school has called for an end to the “outdated, indefensible and cruel” system of separating children by ability in primary classes.
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Hugh Reilly: In maths, some things don’t add up
In POLITE society, it is considered bad form to ask a wheelchair-user to prove his disability by attempting to stand up, although admittedly the UK government is actively attempting to change this social norm in an effort to make the deserving poor pay for the excesses of Etonian banking chums.
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Jane Devine: A gap year no longer a rich kid thing
IT IS around this time of year that many young people are starting to plan and look forward to their gap year or “gap yah”.
Look to small firms, graduates told
Graduate job opportunities are to be increased by new links between university and business authorities.
UK children missing out on foreign books, says author
Millions of children are missing out on the best books in the world because so few are translated into English, according to award-winning author David Almond.
2 commentsJohn Lewis to offer degrees
Retailer John Lewis is to provide staff with the opportunity to study for degrees under a scheme dubbed “University of John Lewis”.
Alarm over shortage of bagpipe teachers
SCOTS children will have to go to a private school if they want to learn the bagpipes, industry experts have warned.
Fourfold rise in pupils who need extra support
THE number of children in Scottish schools who need extra help in the classroom due to conditions such as autism, ADHD and learning difficulties has shown a dramatic fourfold increase in the past ten years, figures reveal.
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Scots schools lack lessons in traditional music
TRADITIONAL music provision, such as lessons in the bagpipes and the fiddle, has become almost inaccessible to schoolchildren in Scotland, according to a survey by one of the country’s foremostmusicians.
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GLASGOW School of Art has appointed a senior official from Dundee University to be its new director.
Wellington School risks losing charitable status
ONE of Scotland’s leading private schools has been told it must do more to help pupils from less well-off backgrounds join its ranks or risk losing its charitable status.
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Edinburgh University scientists’ stem cell find
SCOTTISH scientists have made a discovery which sheds light on how embryonic stem cells develop and grow which could help in the search for new treatments for serious and chronic diseases.
Aberdeen schools merger plan consultation begins
ABERDEEN City Council today launched a period of statutory consultation on its plans to amalgamate Kincorth and Torry academies and establish a new secondary school on a site at the Bobby Calder Park.
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Parents’ anger at pupils’ sex education lecture
SEX education has been given to 12-year-olds attending assembly at a Lothians secondary school – sparking concern that children may have been exposed to unsuitable material.
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Charity urges free childcare for poorest families
THE Scottish Government is being urged to extend free childcare to help families with two-year-olds who are living in poverty.
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