Child poverty in Scotland is now so severe that teachers are being sent advice on how to spot if a child in their class is going hungry, a...

SCHOOL leavers from the most deprived parts of Scotland are half as likely as those from the wealthiest areas to have passed at least one ...

The EIS teaching union has claimed that cuts in staff are making it harder to deal with bad behaviour in schools. The union blames falling...

Performance in maths, reading and science is more than 10 per cent higher in private schools in Scotland than in the state sector, new fig...

St Ninian’s High School and  Williamwood High School came first and second in a nationwide league table based on exam results. Once again, ...

Scotland had the worst record of the 32 nations taking part in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) internatio...

Children as such are not usually included among the oppressed. Yet they necessarily compose one of the weakest, most dependent and defen...

Research shows that of Edinburgh University’s ultra-rich graduates – those worth at least £20m – more than a quarter get their money from f...

50 years of educational reforms have failed to make a significant improvement to the exam results of children from disadvantaged background...

Anthony Seldon, headmaster of Wellington College, complains that his pupils are suffering unreasonable discrimination. He claimed there are...

Fettes College and St George’s School for Girls, both Edinburgh, and St Columba’s School in Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire, have failed the regula...

Boroughmuir High School in Edinburgh came joint first in Scotland, (along with Glasgow’s Jordanhill School), after figures released showed...

Children who live in poverty in Scotland are already failing before school starts, a new study from Save the Children report suggested. Yo...

Socialist Courier found it interesting that three south Ayrshire schools – Ayr Academy, Kyle Academy and Marr College – have been working ...

Once again Scottish universities are in the spotlight over their failure to recruit sufficient numbers of students from deprived background...

Despite some of Scotland’s most exclusive fee-paying secondary schools charging more than £30,000 for a year’s tuition, 80 per cent of thei...

Thousands of American school students in Louisiana attend private religious schools that teach from a fundamentalist christian curriculum...

Members the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS), Scotland's largest teachers union, yesterday voted in favour of fighting austerity...

Figures obtained by the National Union of Students show older universities each typically recruit fewer than 100 students from deprived bac...

Growing numbers of children are turning up at school malnourished, dirty and struggling to concentrate because of soaring poverty level...