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James McenaneyThe Scotsman |
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. After more than two decades in charge, the headteacher of Killermont Primary...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. Earlier this week, a new report declared that the majority of pupils with...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. When it comes to Scotland’s colleges, it looks like things can only get...
As The Herald's series into The State of Scotland's Colleges draws to a close, its impact has been noted across the sector. For students it has...
It’s done. After just over a year, Humza Yousaf has announced his resignation as the First Minister of Scotland. His replacement will either have...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. I know this is meant to be an education newsletter. We’ll get there, I promise....
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. Last weekend, alongside our articles about additional support needs provision...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. At the end of March, the Scottish Training Federation (STF) issued a press...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. Today our big front-page story is an exclusive report on the education cuts being...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. This week we’ve been reporting on the impact of childcare costs on families in...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. On Tuesday, we broke three exclusive education stories in one day. All of them...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. A couple of days ago, several people got in touch with me to let me know about a...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. All through last week, The Herald ran an ongoing special report called The New...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. This week we’ve been exclusively covering an attempt to spark a radical shift...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. This week, Scotland’s teachers submitted their pay claim for the coming year....
As we approach the end of 2023, we’ve been looking back at the biggest issues and events in Scottish education over the last twelve months. Our...
We're trying to change the conversation on Scottish education. We want to show support for teachers, pupils and staff alike and give a fair and...
What is pedagogy? It's a term that teachers won't use when talking about education publicly, but it contributes greatly when informing teaching...
What is differentiation? Pupils have different needs and ways of learning, so how do teachers account for these variables? Education writer James...
What is the 1140 hours policy? It was designed to help fund early learning and childcare but has it solved issues in the sector? Education writer...
What is a positive destination? Is it a useful metric for measuring pupil success after school or is there more to it? Education writer James...
What is Pupil Equity Funding? It was supposed to be a new way to inject money directly into schools but... what's the catch? Education writer James...
What is health and wellbeing? It was once considered in simple terms, but what it means has expanded to account for the many complexities of modern...
What is numeracy? Is it just counting numbers? Do sums need to be used in language classes under the Curriculum for Excellence?! Education writer...
What is literacy? It's just reading and writing, right? Not quite. Like most things in education, there is a bit more to it under the Curriculum for...
What is the attainment gap? You know, that thing politicians like to bring up when making a point about the state of Scottish education? Education...
Just what is the Curriculum for Excellence? What path should the curriculum take to make Scottish education truly excellent? Education writer James...
I still can’t quite believe that I got to spend time in Orkney for work, or that it really is my job to visit schools and communities and, to the...
St Magnus Cathedral must be one of the most striking buildings in the entire country. It’s certainly one of the oldest still in use, with...
Over the coming week The Herald's education correspondent, James McEnaney, reports from Orkney where he finds an education system bound with the...