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Scotland’s disadvantaged children can’t wait any longer for the education system to get its collective act together, says interim Education Scotland chief executive Gillian Hamilton

Schools are getting better at monitoring the impact of initiatives to close the disadvantage-related attainment gap in Scotland, according to a new report

Two new reports based on a public consultation about the use of school uniforms give an idea of what new national statutory guidance is likely to contain

Some LGBTQ+ teachers have ‘really supportive’ schools but others face ‘backwards’ attitudes that make them feel unsafe, according to a new report

MSPs also hear some students are attending school ‘even less than that’ – as 91¶¶Òõ Scotland uncovers figures showing the attendance rate last week in secondary was just 82 per cent

The former Scotland coach, who died this week, was also a teacher for 22 years and spoke to 91¶¶Òõ in 2012

Liam Kerr moves from Net Zero, Energy and Transport and takes over from Stephen Kerr

Scotland will not be able to adopt the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in full, it emerged today, two years after MSPs voted to do so

New teachers’ job prospects are worsening despite Scottish government promises to increase teacher numbers, with one council telling 130 staff they won’t have a job after the summer. Emma Seith looks at the national picture

Council criticised for emailing teachers just before school holidays to say they would be out of work after the summer, which the EIS union says reflects problems across Scotland

Artificial intelligence in schools could mean fairer assessment and reduced teacher workload, says Hayward report – but a ‘coordinated national approach is essential’

Hayward report on qualifications and assessment is based on opinion and lacking in proper scientific evaluation, argues Professor Lindsay Paterson