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The Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association (SSTA) is Scotland's second largest teachers' union. It was created to focus on secondary education issues in reaction to the perception of national influence exercised by the primary education sector. The SSTA is affiliated to the STUC [3] and Education International. [4]
[11] In 2014, research by the Office for National Statistics found that Scotland was the most highly educated country in Europe and among the most well-educated in the world in terms of tertiary education attainment, above countries like Finland, Ireland and Luxembourg, with roughly 40% of Scots aged 16–64 educated to NVQ level 4 and above. [12]
A Standard for Provisional Registration (Lecturers in Scotland’s Colleges) was introduced in February 2023 [33] The GTC Scotland rules around the subjects that Scottish teachers are allowed to teach have been criticised for being too strict because they constrain the ability of head teachers to determine the curriculum in schools and prevent ...
A review of the front page stories as primary school teacher training is cut and the SQA exam row ... More from Scotland's papers. The Herald. The Scotsman. Daily Record ... Juan Soto free agency ...
Education Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Foghlam Alba) is an executive agency of the Scottish Government, tasked with improving the quality of the country's education system. Education Scotland is responsible for inspecting Scotland's state–funded primary and secondary schools, as well as nursery schools which form part of a primary school.
The meeting, to discuss showing free-to-air matches, ends without resolution, but is described by Gavin Newlands MP as encouraging. [64] 15 April – The SNP's National Executive Committee orders a review of the party's transparency and governance. [65] Corach Rambler, trained in Scotland at Milnathort by Lucinda Russell, wins the 2023 Grand ...
In 2022, private school teachers in 23 schools in England and Wales under the Girls' Day School Trust went on strike over the threat to close the scheme to new entrants. . The previous year, the government had raised required contributions of school employers by 43%, but while free-state schools were covered, fee-charging private schools were
Threats of industrial action by the EIS evoke memories for many of the long-running teacher strikes of the 1980s [7] [8] During the 1984-86 industrial action almost 15 million pupil days were lost across Scotland. [9] It was a sustained campaign of industrial action in Scottish education in opposition to the Conservative Government.