Education Secretary

Education Secretary Mairi McAllan has a big job ahead, reckons reader (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Scottish government must sort out schooling now

Cabinet secretary for Education, culture and Gaelic Mairi McAllan visits Broughton High School.

Màiri McAllan: I intend to be a reforming Education Secretary

Education Secretary Mairi McAllan with pupils receiving exam results at Broughton High School (Lesley Martin/PA)

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Young people across Scotland received their exam results on Tuesday

'Postcode lottery' on exam results as gap holds between rich and poor

Scottish Education Secretary Mairi McAllan with students at Broughton High School in Edinburgh

Analysis Results relief for McAllan - but her real test is still to come

Pupils at Barrhead High, in East Renfrewshire, celebrate their outstanding exam results.

Scotland's exam results 'incredibly positive' as pass rates increase

In 2000, Scotland was among the top five countries in Europe in maths, science and reading. Attainment has subsequently declined. (Picture: Ben Birchall)

Exclusive '20 years of radical change needed to improve Scottish schools'

Standardised testing was nearly abolished in Scotland Picture: Getty Images

Exclusive Government has spent £30m on controversial tests for five year olds

Teachers 'in eye of perfect storm', SNP Education Secretary warned

One of the buildings of the Gordonstoun School, in Elgin, where King Charles III was a pupil. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images

Scotland 'disadvantaged on international stage' by private school VAT

A parents’ campaign group wants smartphones banned in schools

Parents go to Holyrood to call for blanket ban on phones in schools

Teachers are being told to relocate or retrain if they are struggling to secure a permanent job.

Union hits back after claim teachers need to 'relocate' to get work

Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth has come under fire from the teaching unions (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

EIS fury at Jenny Gilruth for 'undermining' pledge on class time

Education secretary Jenny Gilruth

Exclusive Gilruth would consider wholesale change to school day to cut violence

Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth

Number of pupils in Scotland with additional needs likely to rise

The Scottish Government previously said it will back headteachers who ban mobile phones

Mobiles should be banned in classrooms, says SNP Education Secretary

Jenny Gilruth Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills meets pupils receiving exam results at King's Park Secondary School

SNP's Jenny Gilruth won't say if males can use girls' school toilets

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Exclusive Belle and Sebastian frontman backs Phillipson for Labour deputy leader

Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth

SNP minister told to explain on school religious assemblies

The Government plans to withdraw Strategic Priorities Grant funding from journalism, media studies and publishing courses this year

Why the Government needs to 'save quality journalism education' Amber Allott

GMB Scotland has expressed warnings about an epidemic of assault and verbal abuse in schools

Exclusive Every classroom support worker in Edinburgh 'has seen violence'

Jenny Gilruth and Douglas Ross

Minister defends SNP campaigning instead of answering school questions

The school exam season has got underway.

Analysis SNP risks getting marked down if school exam grades do not improve

Teachers are already under pressure (Photo: Shutterstock)

Scottish teachers fear 'disastrous' impact of looming education reform

Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth at Dundee University’s life sciences department.

Job cuts: Education secretary tells Dundee University to 'think again'

A survey by Scotland’s biggest teaching union teachers in Edinburgh were facing violence and abuse on a daily basis – sometimes from children as young as five. The Educational Institute of Scotland said the problem had increased over the past four years and many teachers had considered quitting because of it.

SNP urged to rethink mainstream education policy after violence surge

Dundee University's main library

'Real danger' Scottish university will go to the wall, says think tank

Black Diamond Cheerleaders, a Scottish team, at The Summit in Florida last year.

Cheerleaders forced to chose between SQA exams and world championships

Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth

Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth pauses school ‘sex survey’

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How higher education can help community

Pupils in a classroom

Exclusive SNP deal to replace 621 axed teachers at risk of unravelling

Teacher in a classroom

Exclusive SNP minister privately warned teacher contracts are 'discriminatory'

Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth meets Advice Direct Scotland chief executive Andrew Bartlett and deputy chief Executive Pamela Stewart at the launch of academy.scot

Education Secretary launches new academy.scot to upskill Scotland’s workforce

Millions in funding are being withheld from Scottish councils in a row over teacher numbers. Picture: Michael Gillen

SNP ministers hold back £145m from councils over teacher numbers row

Jenny Gilruth

SNP minister criticises debate quality in Holyrood and blames phones

Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth meets with students at Madras College in St Andrews, Fife. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Analysis Who will blink first in £145.5m Scottish teacher cuts battle?

Labour MP Ian Murray leaves 10 Downing Street, London, after being appointed Secretary of State for Scotland following the landslide General Election victory for the Labour Party. Picture: Tejas Sandhu/PA Wire

Labour to 'quickly' push through £150 million VAT hit for private schools

Councils and Scottish Government at odds over maintaining teacher numbers

Councils seek 'compromise' with SNP over £145.5m teacher fund

Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth. Photo: Michael Gillen

Exclusive Why Glasgow faces multi-million penalty for cutting 172 teacher jobs

Jenny Gilruth was quizzed over future of Scottish universities. Picture: David Cheskin/PA

Universities challenge thrown down by SNP to fix £100m black hole

On Britain's streets, homeless people sleep in tents, something Suella Braverman says is a 'lifestyle choice'

Readers' Letters: Braverman's views on homeless are 'vile'

Education secretary Jenny Gilruth has a lot on her plate, reckons reader (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Scotland's educational problems hit crisis point

Analysis Jenny Gilruth asks teachers to shape education reforms - will it work?

Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth has suggested education spending could be reprioritised to focus more on younger generations impacted by the Covid pandemic (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA)

Gilruth right to be worried about lockdown’s lasting effects on children

Schools across England will face major disruption today as teachers strike over pay (Photo: Getty Images)

Breaking Back to school - teachers strikes finally over

Ruth Perry was the headteacher at Caversham Primary School (Photo: Brighter Futures for Children)

Ofsted changes being considered after death of headteacher

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