20+ hour, 7+ min ago   (405+ words) Scotland’s Education Secretary has said she “does not intend to stand still” following the results of a key international league table this week. The Pisa rankings, produced by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, found the performance of the…...

1+ day, 56+ min ago   (962+ words) After a few days wandering the conference rooms and exhibition stalls at the Scottish Event Campus for an international education conference, I struggled to reconcile what I was seeing with the sense that higher education in Scotland is considered a…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1710+ words) There is no disguising the fact that these results are disappointing. But there are strong mitigating factors, not least the withdrawal of the levels of support that were available when I was teaching. Subject Principal Teacher posts have been stripped…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (653+ words) This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. It has been a few years, but there’s nothing quite like PISA Day to remind you of everything that is wrong with PISA Day. The latest scores came out…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (696+ words) Scottish Borders Council (SBC) has been required to issue a full apology after an ombudsman upheld a complaint that a public consultation over proposed mothballing of nurseries was “unreasonable”. In April 2025, the council’s Executive Committee approved a proposal to consult…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (981+ words) Last year, Scotland’s colleges took in an extra £13.9 million in short-term financial support, cut staff numbers by 282, and still ended the year with a collective £5.6 million deficit and with five colleges having to take cash advances. These latest statistics from…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (911+ words) After another round of international assessments showed Scottish pupils trailing their English counterparts, a Scottish policy expert explained that looking south for comparison is useful for more than bragging rights. Lindsay Paterson, emeritus professor of education policy at the University…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (805+ words) Scottish head teachers are increasingly concerned about the impact of staff shortages, with potentially two-thirds of pupils attending a school where learning is thought to be "hindered" by a lack of support staff. In the latest Programme for International Student…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (331+ words) An Edinburgh law firm has welcomed two new trainee solicitors as it continues to invest in developing new legal talent. Ralph Sayer, founded in Edinburgh in 2022, has appointed Aaliyah Rafique and Louis McDowell to two-year traineeships with the firm. Both…...