Debate and commentary on universities, schools and education policy in Scotland.
IN JULY, HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY, in Edinburgh, closed clearing to Scottish students. This is the logical conclusion of the SNP’s “no
ANTON MUSCATELLI SAYS Scottish universities face a £200 million blow, and that we must act. He is right. The new
I’M A MUM OF FOUR CHILDREN, aged 33 to 13, so I’ve seen first-hand how much our education system has
HOW EARLY IS TOO EARLY? It is a question thousands of Scottish parents are now asking as more emerges about
IN THE FINAL PAGES of his new book The Shortest History of Scotland, Murray Pittock lays out a disconcerting irony:
IT WAS A RELIEF to finally say publicly what I’ve believed for years. As I rose to deliver my maiden
WHEN I FIRST ANALYSED parental perceptions of the value of apprenticeship learning in 2022, 46 per cent of Scots championed
I WENT TO a private independent school, as did my children, and now my grandchildren. On occasion I have been
WRITING A MANIFESTO on Scottish education is not easy. Anecdotally, I hear reports of children vaping and playing on their
WHEN THE SCOTTISH SUN revealed that pupils as young as thirteen were being assigned work promoting SNP talking points from