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Online learning platform Scholar is celebrating 25 years – Emma Seith speaks to its director about the possibilities that AI is opening up and why she would like the platform to be free for all

Exclusive findings reveal huge variety in schools’ approaches to tracking progress, with most leaders saying they will struggle without P8

Calls continue for an independent review into the drop in the Higher history pass rate after survey of teachers is ‘overwhelmingly critical’ of SQA’s internal investigation

Just over a third achieved the grade 4 needed in GCSE English language in November 2024 resits

Proposed assessment and qualifications reform such as the Scottish Diploma of Achievement sounds a lot like the International Baccalaureate, finds Emma Seith

International Baccalaureate plans monitoring visits to ensure that schools apply its rule of post-exam supervision to stop answers being shared online

The lead on the government’s review of curriculum and assessment also expresses frustration that it can’t fully consider emerging digital technologies that are still relatively ‘untested’

The Royal Society of Edinburgh publishes a wish list of changes for Scotland’s schools system, saying an ‘optimal’ model of education could be achieved by 2050

Humanities teacher Jack Dougall set 100 of his students the challenge of cheating on their homework with AI without being detected – and the results were shocking

More students are having to access lessons in other schools as part of consortia arrangements to ensure that they can take their preferred subjects

Education researcher Samuel Sims has crunched the numbers and found a simple solution to give the profession back an enormous amount of much-needed time

The evidence on setting and streaming by ability is limited but points to it having a negative impact on lower-attaining pupils – so why do most English schools still use it? John Morgan investigates