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Scottish local authorities are accused of ‘running down the clock’ on the government’s flagship policy of reducing teachers’ class-contact time

Former council chief will lead Scotland’s qualifications body through reform after leaving his previous role in the wake of Ofsted criticism of children’s services following the killing of a six-year-old boy

Scotland’s biggest teaching union also calls for extra time for teachers to engage with the review amid concerns that the process so far is ‘lacking’ input from early years and primary staff

The passing of legislation is an ‘opportunity missed’ to improve the learning environment of pupils, warns Scotland’s biggest teaching union

Change in Scottish education is proving slow – but could the forthcoming election focus minds when it comes to the promised reduction in teachers’ class-contact time, asks Emma Seith

More teachers could be making use of the opportunity to gain registration across both primary and secondary schools, says the chief executive of the General Teaching Council for Scotland

Education bill paves the way for change at Scotland’s national assessment and inspection bodies, but critics say it does not go far enough

The history taught in our schools should be focused on big themes rather than dates and events, says Paul Hamilton

Positioning teachers as researchers trying to solve teaching and learning problems in their own classrooms can be a great model for CPD, write three initial teacher trainers

‘Potentially life-saving skills’ can be taught to children from the very start of primary school, teachers are told

‘Next steps’ document shows when curriculum, qualifications and assessment ‘will start to feel different’

‘Exhausted and burnt out’ teachers urgently need the long-promised reduction in class-contact time, says Scottish Secondary Teachers’ Association