Education

WHEN Nicola Benedetti voices concern over the spiralling educational dilemma facing young instrumentalists in Scotland today, she knows it will make headlines. She knows she will be listened to by the movers and shakers. She also knows that she will be repeatedly frustrated by the subsequent lack of meaningful action. But what marks Benedetti out from many of the other vocal campaigners is her willingness to roll up her sleeves and do something tangible about it.

BBC Children in Need has awarded a grant worth £30,000 to Motherwell charity The Miracle Foundation.

Scotland's charity watchdog is investigating the closure of one of the country's last private secondaries for girls - after a merger with a former rival school.

An eleven-year-old Glasgow schoolboy has been selected to represent Scotland at the World Cadets Chess Championship in China.

Textbook supplier Pearson will start to phase out physical materials in favour of digital education tools.

Pupils at Scotland’s newest secondary school will be forced to lock their phones away until home time.

Scottish higher education is respected around the world, except by decision-makers in Westminster.

The expansion of the ­apprenticeship ­family to include Foundation Apprenticeships not only ­provides learners with an exciting new work-based opportunity while they are in their senior phase of school, it also gives employers a chance to attract highly motivated young people who are equipped with recent, relevant skills and experience.

Thirty-two years ago, in 1987, a ground-breaking new ­initiative was born into rural Scotland.

Holyrood's higher education minister has written to his counterparts in other EU nations to reassure them that Scotland's universities "remain open" to international students and staff.

Would you like your child to experience a classroom ‘like no other’ as Midlothian Council prepares to open the first of two outdoor nurseries?

Only four other countries in the world are poorer than Malawi, according to World Bank data, but they are all riven by conflict and violence, writes Susan Dalgety

A new outdoor space has been created at Redburn school in Kildrum to celebrate the life of former pupil Kirsty Alexander, who sadly passed away in September 2017.

The international reputation of Scots universities as being among “the best in the world” is in jeopardy over the prospect of EU students being forced to leave the country before their studies end, the SNP has said.

North Lanarkshire Council’s Junior Road Safety Officers Team of the Year 2019 award has been won by Carbrain Primary School, Cumbernauld.

Motherwell and Wishaw MSP Clare Adamson has called for the UK Government to scrap its “heartless’”two-child cap on claiming benefits.