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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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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.
34 commentsTeachers’ 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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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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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THE head of an Edinburgh private school has called for an end to the “outdated, indefensible and cruel” system of separating children by ability in primary classes.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.
14 commentsNew director appointed to Glasgow School of Art
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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More Scots applying for university places
THE number of Scots applying for a place at university is on the increase, according to newly published figures.
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Comment: University code will see Scotland lead again
The issue of university governance is an important one, and merits a serious discussion.
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Scottish students dismay at new governance code
STUDENT leaders have accused universities of ignoring their views as part of a process to re-shape the way higher education institutions are run.
3 commentsHeadteacher hung herself after fears over Ofsted
A HEADTEACHER found hanged at her primary school was concerned the school would lose its top inspection rating, an inquest yesterday heard.
Hugh Reilly: Testing times for pupils and patience
The SQA exams started last week. It is a period in the academic calendar when the SQA affords pupils the opportunity to show off their knowledge and skills.
Mandarin blossoms among Scots language pupils
IT’S difficult, unfamiliar, and far from a traditional educational choice. So why are more Scottish pupils bucking the UK trend and venturing out of their comfort zone to study Mandarin? Jackie Kemp speaks to some of the people involved in the pursuit of oriental excellence
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‘Worrying’ dip in foreign languages at Scots schools
FOREIGN language learning in Scotland’s schools has dipped to “worrying” new levels, education experts warned last night. The warning that the decline will have an negative impact on Scotland’s standing in the world came after it emerged that only about one in ten S5 pupils is taking foreign language courses.
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Stephen McGinty: Thumbs down for Kalq layout
MRS Clifford’s secretarial class was on the fourth floor of St Andrew’s High School in Clydebank and it was here in the summer of 1987 that I first learned to play the “literary piano”.
Edinburgh college powered by new solar meadow
SCOTLAND’S first solar meadow has been switched on – helping one of the Capital’s largest educational institutions become energy self-sufficient.
10 commentsHugh Reilly: School takes a back seat to sex, image and Twitter
TEACHERS in Scotland will be heartened that the Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy (SSLN) does not make grim reading for the profession.
Iain Gray: Wide horizons for a new flowering of science
COMMENTATORS daily demand a referendum debate on “substantive issues, not process”.
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One in five secondary pupils fails to meet standards
NEARLY one in five secondary school pupils is failing to meet the required standards set out under Scotland’s fledgling curriculum, new figures show.
20 commentsGlasgow’s Jordanhill gets top marks for curriculum
INSPECTORS have praised one of the country’s leading schools for its implementation of Scotland’s fledgling curriculum.
3 commentsEx-St Andrews University principal dies at home
PROFESSOR Struther Arnott, principal of St Andrews University from 1986 to 1999, has died at his home in Doncaster at the age of 78, the institution has announced. The academic was an expert in the structure of DNA.
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Hugh Reilly: TV hinders foreign tongues? Crazy talk
Last week, minutes after Johann Lamont delivered an emotional speech laying bare the hard times she endured as a youngster, A&E departments across the country were flooded with hundreds of visually impaired people complaining that their glass eyes were floating in their sockets, as if orbs of cork.
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Four Scottish universities in global top 100
FOUR Scottish universities have been ranked among the top 100 in a global league table measuring scientific performance.
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Jane Devine: We don’t need Michael Gove’s plan
Most us look back on our summer holidays with pleasant feelings of nostalgia. The long warm days (it never rains in these memories); not a care in the world; disappearing off for hours on end; popping home only for food, or to use the loo (when a country pee wasn’t appropriate). Oh, the times we had.
8 commentsMaking the grade for Edinburgh students
Edinburgh University has become the latest to set its entry standards for pupils emerging from Scotland’s new curriculum.
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Johann Lamont hits out at university funding
SCOTTISH Labour leader Johann Lamont will today claim that the generous funding of universities and free tuition in Scotland is “savaging” further education colleges, in a fresh assault on the SNP government’s priorities.
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