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Court judgement potentially has major implications for how discrimination and human rights claims could be made by those challenging exclusion decisions, a lawyer explains

The SNP’s mission to close the disadvantage-related attainment gap has become a ‘defining failure’, Scottish Labour leader tells first minister

There’s an ‘urgent need for improvement’, says the watchdog – as it questions whether schools can cope with the almost eight-fold increase in additional support needs pupils

Official figures also show more Scottish students leaving school earlier – over 8,000 school leavers were in S4 in 2023-24, at just over 14 per cent of the cohort

Schools must be safe, inclusive spaces where misogyny is challenged, not tolerated, says Nuzhat Uthmani

Move will be welcomed by outdoor learning campaigners, but will Scottish government change the rules on unisex toilets?

Secondary school leaders welcome plans for students to get more say over participation in religious and moral education, and religious observance – but say there is a ‘resources issue’

The Pupil Equity Fund – designed to help close the ‘poverty-related attainment gap’ – should continue beyond 2026 elections, says education secretary, but she suggests changes will be needed

Report says government should bring back national statutory tests for English proficiency, to help teachers and pupils

With more pupils with English as an additional language (EAL) in more schools, we must do better to support and measure their needs, says director of the Bell Foundation

Scotland’s exam body also calls on schools to stop using textbooks that contain ‘outdated language and depictions of enslavement and colonialism’

The Scottish Greens secured the secondary free lunches pilot in exchange for backing the Scottish Budget