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Aberdeen Council to spend £860k on school phones

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:59:13 GMT

A SCOTTISH council which is currently consulting on a series of controversial school closures sparked outrage by announcing proposals to spend an estimated £860,000 to ensure every pupil has access to a smartphone in the classroom.

Fiona McCade: Popularity comes at too high a price

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:21:19 GMT

When I was about seven years old, I remember being sent out of class for sobbing uncontrollably. Why? Because I was wearing woolly tights.

Scottish independence: Scots students could suffer

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:05:21 GMT

SCOTLAND’s universities would be inundated with applications from UK students looking for free tuition should the country become independent, it has been claimed.

‘Facebook trolls forced me to quit school’

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:16:06 GMT

A SCOTS teenager yesterday told how she had to quit school after she was bullied by cruel Facebook trolls.

Brian Wilson: Millport marine centre must be saved

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:05:46 GMT

On one Scottish island, there is a centre of academic excellence which predates the University of the Highlands and Islands by fully a century. That island is Cumbrae in the Firth of Clyde.

Hugh Reilly: Teaching profession needs to man up

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:41:28 GMT

When I joined Strathclyde Police in 1975, many of my older colleagues hailed from the Highlands or one of the many Hebridean gulag archipelagos.

‘One in eight students considers suicide’

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:35:36 GMT

ONE in five students considers themselves to have a mental health problem and around one in eight has suicidal thoughts.

Jane Devine: Students right to demand high quality

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:42:13 GMT

When my aunt’s pedigree dog entered into a clandestine relationship with a farm collie, my aunt was left with nice offspring she didn’t want and couldn’t sell for the type of fee they might have otherwise attracted had the sire been properly selected.

Banking’s image puts off graduates - Lloyds chief

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:55 GMT

THE damage caused to banking’s image by the financial crisis is making it more difficult to recruit graduates into the industry, the head of one of Britain’s biggest banks has warned.

Hugh Reilly: SSTA’s D-day plans show martial naiveté

Mon, 13 May 2013 19:17:14 GMT

LAST weekend, anti-teacher forces picked up belligerent chatter emanating from the GHQ of the Scottish Secondary Teachers Association.

Half of Scots back right to send child to Gaelic school

Sun, 12 May 2013 21:43:01 GMT

ALMOST half of Scots believe parents should have the right to send their children to a Gaelic school, research shows.

Half of teachers considered quitting over past year

Thu, 09 May 2013 20:10:52 GMT

JUST over half of Scottish teachers have considered leaving the profession during the past year, a survey has found.

Teachers’ leader calls for ‘D-day invasion’

Thu, 09 May 2013 17:17:37 GMT

THE head of one of Scotland’s largest teaching unions will today call for a “D-day invasion” against the attacks of politicians, “ill-informed parents” and “out of control youngsters”.

SAAS issues apology after student funds delayed

Wed, 08 May 2013 23:30:35 GMT

THE authority which hands out funding to university students has been forced to apologise after more than 30,000 were left without vital bursary payments.

Michael Kelly: Let students pick their own rectors

Wed, 08 May 2013 20:40:17 GMT

WE might not agree with the choices made, but universities should resist interference in elections from outside, writes Michael Kelly

Hugh Reilly: In maths, some things don’t add up

Mon, 06 May 2013 20:27:49 GMT

In POLITE society, it is considered bad form to ask a wheelchair-user to prove his disability by attempting to stand up, although admittedly the UK government is actively attempting to change this social norm in an effort to make the deserving poor pay for the excesses of Etonian banking chums.

End ‘cruel’ sets for primary children - headmaster

Mon, 06 May 2013 19:40:29 GMT

THE head of an Edinburgh private school has called for an end to the “outdated, indefensible and cruel” system of separating children by ability in primary classes.

Now lecturers condemn new code for universities

Mon, 06 May 2013 18:31:06 GMT

TWO of the largest teaching unions have become the latest group to attack a new code of governance for Scotland’s universities.

Jane Devine: A gap year no longer a rich kid thing

Mon, 06 May 2013 01:09:59 GMT

IT IS around this time of year that many young people are starting to plan and look forward to their gap year or “gap yah”.

Fourfold rise in pupils who need extra support

Sun, 05 May 2013 22:32:55 GMT

THE number of children in Scottish schools who need extra help in the classroom due to conditions such as autism, ADHD and learning difficulties has shown a dramatic fourfold increase in the past ten years, figures reveal.