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Scotlands two key national education agencies are to be reformed amid widespread anger over their performance in recent months.

Reform of SQA and Education Scotland must be more than a cosmetic exercise 06/03/2021 | 11:15am EDT Send by mail : Message : Required fields Commenting on the statement from the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills on plans for education recovery, including the reform of the SQA and Education Scotland, Dr Patrick Roach, General Secretary of NASUWT-The Teachers Union, said: It is abundantly clear from the current mess created by the Scottish Government and the SQA over the...

Submitting... However, unions called for reforms to be a “significant review”. Dr Patrick Roach, general secretary of NASUWT, said: "It is abundantly clear from the current mess created by the Scottish Government and the SQA over the arrangements for the awarding of this summer qualifications that reform is needed. Teachers have lost confidence in both the SQA and Education Scotland and an overhaul of systems and structures is now needed in the best interests of schools, teachers and pupils...

The coronavirus catch-up tsar has said “more will be needed” to help children recover learning lost during the pandemic as school leaders branded the Government’s extra £1.4 billion funding “pitiful”. The money, announced by the Department for Education (DfE) on Wednesday, will be used to offer pupils up to 100 million hours of tuition as part of the Government’s catch-up programme for children in England who have faced disruption due to Covid-19. But the £1.4 billion – made ava...

ABOUT 6.5 per cent of British children are educated privately, and those pupils need teachers. But without the automatic protection of the National Agreement on Pay and Conditions of Service — the “Burgundy Book” — those teachers can be especially vulnerable.  When private schools are restructured, jobs can be lost and terms and conditions of employment subject to detriment. While there is a live debate on the left about even the existence of these businesses, the argument is not w...

© PA Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A north teaching union boss is backing calls for Scotland’s new education secretary to reform the system ahead of the publication of a major review. NASUWT Scotland insist the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report into Curriculum for Excellence (CfE...

REFORMING Scotland’s education system must be a post-Covid priority for new Education Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville, teachers’ union NASUWT said today. The union said that the founding principles of Scotland’s curriculum have been lost through an overemphasis on assessment and bureaucracy. It fears that teachers are being disempowered by high workloads and aren’t being allowed the flexibility to meet the needs of all pupils. The union called for the forthcoming independent review o...

BBC News By Lucy Whyte Senior school pupils are in the middle of sitting assessments which will decide their qualifications. The original plan image captionJohn Swinney announced the cancellation of exams last December The system put in place to award grades for National 5s, Highers and Advanced Highers this year is called the Alternative Certification Model. It was first created after Deputy First Minister John Swinney announced the cancellation of National 5 final exams, which are mostly sat...

Teachers plea for harsher punishments for abusive pupils It comes one year after the Express revealed that a Renfrewshire teacher is assaulted almost every day of the school year. Teachers say they are entitled to dignity at work and a safe working environment (Image: Getty Images/Radius Images) Get the latest Scottish parenting news sent straight to your inbox each week with our newsletter.Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the i...

Mask wearing was the main, albeit limited, protection afforded to educators and pupils when schools reopened early March.