Scotland
The latest news, analysis, investigations and professional advice covering everything to do with the schools sector in Scotland
Friday
20th Jun 2025
How many schools are there in the UK?
Find the latest data on the number of UK schools, plus details on governing bodies, curricula, inspections and more
Is education helping Scotland to meet its other big challenges?
RSE report finds that more must be done to link education with other national priorities, including the climate emergency, poverty and economic prosperity
How many teachers are there in the UK?
Find the latest school workforce numbers for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Why can’t we agree on what great teaching looks like?
Given all the research evidence that we now have on effective teaching practice, all teachers should share the same pedagogical principles, writes Bruce Robertson
Consultation opens on changes to RO and RME opt-out rules
A Holyrood committee wants to understand the potential impact of a new law that would give children more of a say over opting out of religious observance and education
Tuesday
17th Jun 2025
More school leavers in ‘positive destinations’ but university gap widens
The divide in university attendance between the most and least deprived school leavers grew to 34.7 percentage points for the 2023-24 cohort
Exclusion ‘an appropriate and necessary tool’, says behaviour guidance
But Scotland’s biggest teaching union warns that ‘policies alone will not address the serious issue of violence and aggression’ in schools – and that more funding is needed
Monday
16th Jun 2025
Half of Scottish secondaries rarely use their grounds for teaching
But four in five schools in Scotland have improved their grounds over the past three years, according to a report from Learning through Landscapes
Looked-after children put on ‘drastic part-time timetables’
There has been a big rise in informal exclusions as schools try to ‘circumvent’ policies that make it harder to formally exclude care-experienced pupils, warns report