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Is Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence achieving its aims? Emma Seith investigates

The disruption caused by Covid has reignited the debate about how Scotland should assess what secondary school students know at the end of their studies, with some favouring external exams and others arguing for greater teacher involvement and coursework. Emma Seith reports

Some 29 per cent of Scottish schools had a coronavirus case in the first two weeks of term, official figures show

Education Scotland will ‘adopt a phased approach’ to resuming school inspections after the hiatus caused by Covid

Scottish teachers’ time in class is set to remain above average, even with cut of 1.5 hours a week promised by the government

Running additional assessments would ‘place excess workload on teachers, lecturers and learners’, SQA says

Scotland’s first minister is at the mercy of scientists’ advice about whether 12- to 15-year-olds should get the Covid vaccine, writes Emma Seith

Teacher rewarded after years of ‘shedding light on the destructive impact of discrimination’

OECD experts today faced questions about their recent review of Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence

Urgent question lodged in Parliament after government’s apparent dismissal of OECD concerns over standardised testing

One of the most powerful voices in Scottish education, McKenna has been Glasgow’s education director since 2007

Teachers can assess more skills than pen and paper exams do – but Scotland is ‘historically steeped’ in exams, warns report