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Stephen Kerr

School girls walking to school. Photo credit should read: Ian West/PA Wire

Major study leads to demands for 'urgent' review of ASN pupil support funding

Education secretary Jenny Gilruth, seen with Humza Yousaf. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA

Summit planned to tackle school violence as minister warned action must follow

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'Shocked' SNP MSP raises job fears after funding U-turn

School violence: education minister says pupils are struggling post-lockdown

Education secretary Jenny Gilruth with First Minister Humza Yousaf. Picture: PA

Scotland school staffing ‘crisis’ amid ‘persistent underfunding’, union says

Graduates from Edinburgh University celebrate after a graduation ceremony at the McEwan Hall in the centre of Edinburgh. Picture: PA

Minister says £46m axed from universities and colleges to fund teacher pay deal

Jenny Gilruth speaking to Auchmuty High School pupils in 2017

'There’s a real potential crisis in the future'

First Bus vehicles. Picture: John Devlin

Pupil bus ban sparks fresh school violence concerns

Almost £5 million has been spent repairing vandalism in Scottish schools in the last five years

Cost of repairing vandalism in schools nears £5m in five years

New data revealed almost 2000 Scottish schools have issues with asbestos.

SNP criticised for 'savage' cuts after it emerges 1,745 schools contain asbestos

Tactical voting could be pivotal at the next General Election

SNP attack 'Better Together reunion' as Tories fail to deny tactical voting ploy

PABest Students (from left) Sophie Thwaites, Aaliyah McLaine, Michael Stewart, Aaron Boyack and Claire McNab at Auchmuty High School in Glenrothes, Fife, check their results as high school pupils across Scotland find out their exam results. Picture date: Tuesday August 9, 2022.

Landmark Scottish education review calls for 'significant reduction' in exams

Glasgow Clyde College

Glasgow college forced to make £2m in savings with redundancies likely

Members of the EIS and NASUWT unions, join the picket line at Craigmount High School in Edinburgh. Secondary schools around Scotland are shut as members of the EIS and SSTA unions take strike action in a dispute over pay. Picture date: Wednesday January 11, 2023.

Prelim exams affected as teachers take second day of strike action in pay row

The fantasy novel Peter Pan has been given a trigger warning by the University of Aberdeen

Scottish university ridiculed over trigger warning applied to Peter Pan

The Scottish Parliament. Picture: Jayne Wright

Founding principles of Holyrood have been 'abandoned', says former SNP minister

Teachers will take two days of targeted strike action next month in a dispute over pay, their union has announced.

Scottish secondary teaching union announces two days of December strike action

The Stirling of University boasts a picturesque campus of 360 acres

University union to go plant-based by 2025

Readers' Letters: Who will make the case for nuanced Unionism?

Stephen Kerr

Boris Johnson 'undoubtedly' politically damaged, says senior Tory MSP

Derek Mackay and Nicola Sturgeon, pictured before the former resigned in disgrace in 2020.

SNP ministers say 'missing' ferries fiasco document has been found

St Andrew's House, headquarters of the Scottish Government in Edinburgh

Ministers spending almost £750k on St Andrew's House amid cost-of-living crisis

Scottish Conservative MSP Stephen Kerr was speaking to The Scotsman in Aberdeen.

SNP must win majority for right to hold indyref2 says senior Scottish Tory

Stephen Kerr, whose teeth fell out mid-speech.

Senior Scottish Tory's ‘tooth falls out’ mid-speech on conference stage

SNP Education Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville

SNP minister rejects human rights concerns over 'power grab' Bill

Boris Johnson’s plan to introduce voter identification in the UK have been described by a Labour MSP as "a Trumpian attempt to rig democracy in favour of the Conservative Party”. (Picture: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Holyrood declares opposition to ‘Trumpian’ voter ID plans

Boris Johnson is facing a crucial week Picture: Phil Noble/PA

Boris Johnson’s resignation inevitable, says Scottish Tory chief whip

Health Secretary apologises after announcement pre-empted in media

Health Secretary apologises after announcement pre-empted in media

Scottish Greens co-convener Patrick Harvie at the Glad Cafe in Glasgow with fellow party co-convener Lorna Slater. Picture: John Devlin

Greens should lost spot at FMQs after SNP agreement struck, argues Tories

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon reacts during First Minster's Questions. Picture: Jane Barlow-Pool/Getty Images

Tory MSP asks for Nicola Sturgeon to correct record

Numbers of media officers working for the Scottish Government have soared in recent years. Picture: PA

Number of Scottish Government press officers soars almost 50% in four years

The Scottish National Party are being investigated over the missing funds.

Police investigating new fraud complaints over SNP ‘missing cash’

SNP MP Peter Grant

SNP MP criticised for claiming 'murdering babies wasn't on Nazi manifesto'

SNP MSP James Dornan told Jacob Rees-Mogg to 'rot in hell' (Picture: John Devlin).

SNP MSP under fire for telling Rees-Mogg to ‘rot in hell’

Humza Yousaf has, quite rightly, refused to apologise for going to the Harry Potter studios with his family (Picture: Andy Buchanan/PA)

Humza Yousaf's Harry Potter trip is nothing to apologise for – Scotsman comment

Humza Yousaf

Health Secretary Humza Yousaf defends taking holiday as Covid cases rocket

Scottish Conservative MSP Stephen Kerr.

Scottish Government agencies breached data protection rules almost 2,000 times

Nicola Sturgeon is due to appear in parliament for First Minister's Questions on Thursday.

Here's everything you need to know about FMQs today

James Newman received no points at the Eurovision contest.

Police investigating complaints over SNP councillor 'we hate the UK' tweet

A screenshot of the tweet posted by SNP councillor Rhiannon Spear.

SNP councillor criticised over 'abhorrent' Eurovision tweet

Counting takes place in the Central Scotland list region. Picture: Michael Gillen

Scottish Greens win first MSP in Central Scotland

Michael Matheson has been re-elected in Falkirk West. Picture: Michael Gillen

Michael Matheson re-elected in Falkirk West for fourth term

As a Christian country, UK should give Asia Bibi asylum – Stephen Kerr MP

Conan Doyle: what was the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes?

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As of March 31, 7,849 Scots had been waiting over two years for inpatient, outpatient or day care treatment from NHS Scotland

NHS Scotland's waiting times 'demonstrably worse' than south of the border

Union chiefs have demanded action over reports of violence

Airport check-in staff assaulted and abused by ‘thuggish’ passengers – GMB union

Swedish climate activist and author Greta Thunberg, who made rose to fame when she began skipping school as a 15-year-old to protest each week against inaction on climate targets outside Sweden's parliament. Picture: Kim Jakobsen To

Climate activist Greta Thunberg to star at Edinburgh International Book Festival