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School attendance data shows slight improvement in persistent absence rates, but they remain at high levels compared with pre-Covid years

Teacher numbers fell in 26 of Scotland’s 32 councils between 2023 and 2024 – with just 13 per cent of new primary teachers securing a permanent job by September

A struggling school’s problems are often down to a focus on the wrong things, says secondary headteacher Bruce Robertson

GTCS research over a 19-month period looks at why thousands of teachers did not renew their registration

New School Leaders Scotland president Pauline Walker tells Emma Seith about why Highers aren’t everything, how to deal with vaping and mobile phones and why she would never swap being a headteacher for a lucrative tech career

Education secretary describes review as a ‘rigorous report’, saying she has full confidence in it – and the SQA

More teachers will become additional support needs specialists, says finance secretary in her Budget statement – but opponents warn of a ‘huge cut’ to school funding

As a parliamentary committee prepares to address recent concerns over Higher history tomorrow, the teachers who lead on the subject for the SQA give their perspective on the recent controversy

Tomorrow’s Scottish Budget is the last chance for ministers to lay out a ‘very clear plan’ on how teachers’ class-contact time will be reduced, warns SNCT

Independent schools have best success rate with SQA appeals, while there are also significant differences by subject and level of deprivation, official data shows

The Scottish government must ensure ‘strong accountability’ of the new bodies and a ‘more coherent vision’ for education reform, say MSPs

Professor Ken Muir also says teachers should play a greater role in inspection – they do ‘the difficult shift in the classrooms’ and are ‘very aware’ of the issues