Secondary
Tuesday
Vaccination of 12- to 15-year-olds to start on Monday
The first minister has also announced that face coverings will continue to be worn in schools until at least the October holidays
Union: vaccinating pupils will make secondaries safer
Scotland’s largest teaching union and children’s commissioner have both welcomed new advice to offer vaccine to 12- to 15-year-olds
Headteachers condemn ‘disastrous’ AS level downgrade
Funding changes and fewer qualifications behind the decline, say researchers
Monday
Schools hit with legal threats over on-site Covid jabs
Heads urge campaigners to stop pressurising schools not to get involved in Covid vaccinations for pupils
Covid vaccine approved for 12- to 15-year-olds
School leaders say government guidance needed so they are not left ‘facing questions to which they simply do not have the answers’
Thursday
Wellbeing data ‘needed to shift focus away from exams’
‘Robust’ data is required if schools in Scotland are to be judged on more than just exam results, says auditor general
Orkney teacher is first winner of equality award
Teacher rewarded after years of ‘shedding light on the destructive impact of discrimination’
Tuesday
A levels 2021: ‘Few requests’ for legal help on appeals
Exclusive: ‘Unsurprising’ that a huge rise in appeals has not emerged given top grades awarded in 2021, say solicitors
Standardised tests defended despite OECD criticism
Urgent question lodged in Parliament after government’s apparent dismissal of OECD concerns over standardised testing
Ofqual: 2022 grading plans to be revealed next month
Decision announced on grading in October, while adaptations to exams will be published in next two weeks, says exams regulator
