Education

A £2.2 million expansion of a primary school in Dalkeith has been given the go ahead, as the council announces intake restrictions on its schools.

Our recently published annual review for 2018-19 gives a flavour of the many faces of knowledge exchange, where businesses and academics collaborate for research and development to prove early stage concepts or gain ­valuable information to deliver a competitive edge.

A Scottish university has unveiled plans to move its 4,000 students in the United Arab Emirates to a new state-of-the-art campus in Dubai.

A number of pupils are to leave one of Edinburgh’s most prestigious schools after an investigation into drug-taking.

Teacher vacancies across Scotland have fallen in the past year, new figures show.

Ten different parties have shown interest in taking over Edinburgh’s Gorgie City Farm, which went into liquidation earlier this month.

English football great Alan Shearer and Scotland Women's national team manager Shelley Kerr are to be awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Stirling.

Parents in East Dunbartonshire are up in arms over changes which could mean children being turned away from schools in their own catchment area.

If more people in Scotland knew how to cook, we would be healthier and happier as a nation.

Scottish students participating in exchange programmes in Hong Kong have been told to come home amid increased civic unrest and protests.

Pupils have been sent home from a primary school in Bishopbriggs amid an outbreak of Norovirus.

Pupils from schools around Fife and Angus took part in Glenrothes firm Raytheon’s fifth annual Quadcopter Challenge hosted by defending champions Auchmuty High.

A Glenrothes teenager who is passionate about supporting good mental health has launched a new project called ‘Mental Health Distraction Boxes’.

Academic resources are no longer the privilege of just students, says Daniel Broby.

Up to 30 per cent of young people claim to have experienced bullying and now is the time to listen to them. Young people see and experience bullying behaviour, they understand it and its impact, and therefore they should be the people we listen to when developing new strategies to address it.

There have been failures in the delivery of SNP’s Curriculum for Excellence policy that are particularly affecting pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds. After a period of denial, at least there are now signs that the Scottish Government is starting to realise the need for a rethink, writes Scottish Conservative MSP Murdo Fraser.