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

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

In difficult times, the arts are more important than ever, writes Hetty Steele, and drama is helping her students explore the complex world around them

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

Figures reflect Oak’s shift from being a response to the pandemic, says national online academy – but ‘emergencies’ still account for 40 per cent of usage

There was a strong reaction to the removal of Sunset Song – Andy Leask takes a look at this and other omissions, as well as new inclusions in the updated list of Scottish set texts in Higher English

With new insights on how Oak materials are being used to adapt or augment curriculum plans, chief executive Matt Hood says it proves debates about teacher autonomy need to evolve

Curriculum and assessment review chair Professor Becky Francis says concerns about volume of content in classrooms have come up in conversations with teachers, pupils and parents

Scottish inspectorate’s review of maths also flags inconsistent CPD, staff shortages and ‘strain’ on teachers due to rising numbers of pupils with ASN

In response to the review’s call for evidence, sector organisations recommend changes to assessments and the scrapping of performance measures

Curriculum and assessment review submission sees union call for new literacy and numeracy assessments

Plans for all senior students to undertake a project were recently rejected by the Scottish government, but it name-checked several organisations that had impressed with their interdisciplinary work. Emma Seith speaks to one of them