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Schools must collaborate as a priority – headteachers have also been told they should think about going running with other heads and organising joint school trips

In last night’s SNP leadership debate education finally got a mention – but do the candidates’ priorities chime with the teaching profession’s?

Will the £20,000 Stem bursary for student teachers be available next year? The government won’t say – but opposition politicians want a new approach

Education secretary says ‘the threat of further strike action in our schools is now formally lifted’

Marginal vote in favour of teacher pay offer follows votes by other unions to accept, although the NASUWT ‘remains in dispute’ with Scottish government and local authorities

With additional support needs tribunal cases on the rise, lawyers Scott Milligan and Kate Sutherland provide practical advice to school staff on how they might be involved

Education was central to Alex Cole-Hamilton’s conference speech in Dundee, including classroom violence, national testing and secure employment for teachers

Curriculum design works best if teachers are given the autonomy to lead it – and time and money to match, says Ewan McIntosh

Teacher strike action over pay started in November in Scotland but all industrial action has now been called off by the EIS, Scotland’s biggest teaching union

The union will now end its industrial action over pay, while the ballot result for Scotland’s largest union, the EIS, is due tomorrow

The independent review of assessment and qualifications is asking if external exams should be significantly reduced and if the Higher brand should be consigned to history – but how do teachers and heads feed back their views?

The Higher has been described as the ‘gold standard’ and the ‘cornerstone’ of Scottish education, but the term could be swept away after more than 130 years in an attempt to give parity to other qualifications and forms of learning