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The Scottish government is still talking about working ‘to create a plan to reduce contact time for teachers’ – days after the deadline John Swinney set councils to deliver ‘a credible proposal’

A Scottish Covid Inquiry report shares the views of 2,000 young people on what schools and teachers should do to protect learning in the event of another pandemic

News of Gillian Hamilton’s departure follows two failed attempts to recruit a permanent chief executive for Education Scotland

School pupils are not being given enough information about menstruation, warns University College London study

Educational inequality has become ‘more pronounced’ since Covid, warns report highlighting the low attainment of disadvantaged white pupils

More than a third of parents are using ‘buy now, pay later’ schemes to afford school uniforms, a charity survey shows

The EIS teaching union’s consultative ballot on industrial action over workload will close before the end of August

The Scottish government has twice been unable to fill the posts of chief inspector of education and chief executive of Education Scotland – Tes Scotland uncovers the costs of this recruitment failure

‘That is on me,’ says former first minister in her memoirs – while also taking aim at the ‘many’ political opponents who wanted her ‘to fail’

Pupil absence because of illness is just as detrimental to academic achievement as unauthorised absence, according to new research

Dr Coulson is leaving his role as CEO of Unity Schools Partnership to be the new head of the department’s regions group, replacing John Edwards

The government’s schools White Paper will address the ‘generational challenge’ of the attainment gap between white, working-class children and their peers, says the education secretary