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Most importantly for some, Edinburgh has a fantastic nightlife and restaurant scene. There are plenty of reasonably priced places to eat and drink, as well as a selection of vegetarian and vegan eateries. For the party people, Edinburgh has one of the highest densities of pubs and bars per square mile in the UK.

There is a range of clubs playing different music for those with a varied taste: dance music, 70s soul, punk, rap – you name it.

City the UK’s third most expensive university area for a night out

Student Andrew McGlashan is handed a pen by a robotic arm at Napier University, watched by Dr Des Bonnar of the Engineering department, October 1992.

33 great pictures of university life in Edinburgh in the early 1990s

Students and lecturers gathered on Thursday outside the Scottish Parliament for a UCU rally against job losses and cuts.

Edinburgh students protest over job losses and subject cuts

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Edinburgh College Sighthill Campus in October, 2012.

Edinburgh College launches new national language hub

Bacteriologist and Nobel laureate Sir Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin, is carried by students from the McEwan Hall after being installed as Rector of Edinburgh University in 1951.

21 brilliant images of student life in the 1950s and 1960s

An artist's impression of the entrance at the new school serving 2-18-year-olds at Shawfair.

Councillors approve new Shawfair school campus to meet housing demand

Edinburgh University students outside the McEwan Hall in September 1989.

Edinburgh Retro: 33 brilliant photos of student life in the 1980s

Council accused of deducting wage of cleaner sent to closed Yorkshire school in blizzard

Schools at risk of closure as a union ballots for strike action

Davidson's Mains Primary School

25 lovely photos capturing Edinburgh P7 pupils' final days at primary

Pupils at Portobello and Queensferry High Schools already have pouches because they were trialling the scheme

First phone-ban pouches due to arrive in schools next week.

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Parents have documented a series of accidents and near misses outside Craiglockhart Primary School

Vote to speed up action over zebra crossing outside city school

Edinburgh University students hold their annual Charities Week procession along Princes Street in May 1971.

25 amazing pictures of uni life in the 1970s

The rankings compiled by Time Times link the schools from best to worst

Edinburgh's best and worst performing nurseries revealed

Archbishop Leo Cushley pictured with lawyer Gerry Bann, right , who opened St Kentigern's Academy, Also pictured is council leader Lawrence Fitzpatrick, senior education staff senior pupils and headteacher Gerry Burns.

Archbishop leads dedication of rebuilt high school
Former pupil invited to open new Blackburn school
Stuart Sommerville

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Fettes College Science and Innovation Centre

Major donation paves way for new science and tech hub at Fettes

Boroughmuir High School was already too small when it opened

Parents at overcrowded school want derelict land as open space

Neighbourhoods in the catchment area: The leafy, well-to-do suburbs of Bruntsfield, Morningside, Merchiston, Polwarth, Buckstone, and parts of Fairmilehead, Churchill and Blackford.
Average property selling price: £363,371.
Median time to under offer: 20 days.
Average percentage of Home Report valuation paid: 103.1 per cent.

The best neighbourhoods in top-ranking secondary school catchments

There have been no request for Gaelic-medium education in the last three years

West Lothian to launch new five-year plan to boost Gaelic language

The number of pupils at Boroughmuir High School has increased by 40 per cent over the last ten years

Boroughmuir pupils could be sent to Tynecastle to address overcrowding

Musselburgh Grammar School is set to have additional classes added for ASN students.

New additional support needs classes could save council £9m a year

Sanne Dijkstra-Downie MSP

Scottish Government urged to do more to tackle knife crime in schools

Regatta’s back to school sale collection includes fleeces, padded jackets and a waterproof coat with a built-in torch.

Regatta’s £4.80 fleece is a top pf the class back-to-school bargain

With a catchment spanning Bruntsfield, Morningside and Blackford, housing demand in the eligible area for Edinburgh’s top-rated school is understandably the highest on the list.
Average property selling price for a three-bedroom home: £567,910 - the highest on the list, and almost £200,000 higher than the current Edinburgh average for a three-bed home of £378,376.
Median selling time: 19 days.
Closing dates: 42 per cent (compared to 25 per cent for all of Edinburgh).
Average amount of Home Report valuation paid: 104 per cent.

How much being in a top school catchment affects your home's value

Edinburgh’s Heriot-Watt University (Heriot-Watt University/PA)

Heriot-Watt staff vote for further possible strike action in re-ballot
Heriot-Watt staff vote for further possible strike action in re-ballot
Callum McCormack

Pupils at Portobello queue up to unlock their phone pouches

Pupils voice their fears over ban on mobile phones in schools

Pupils at Portobello High School have already been using pouches as part of the trial scheme which led to mobile phones being banned in all Edinburgh schools

School mobile phone ban goes ahead but pupils must wait for pouches

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

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

Martin Berginis shared confidential details of pupils on Facebook

Child protection officer shared private details of pupils on Facebook

Yoto Daily's Jake Harris shares why curiosity, laughter and storytelling are at the heart of every episode

Meet the voice behind Yoto Daily Jake Harris

Castleview Primary School

25 final class photos as Primary 7 pupils prepare for secondary move

An artist's impression of how the proposed new Granton Waterfront Primary School will look.

Proposals lodged for new Granton Waterfront Primary School

A general view of the University of Edinburgh Old College, Edinburgh (Jane Barlow/PA)

How Edinburgh universities compare in new league table

Abbeyhill Primary School

23 lovely photos capturing city pupils' last days at primary school

Olha fled the war in Ukraine and lost her dad to cancer during her studies.

Ukrainian student Olha dedicates degree to late father

Yoto Daily's Jake Harris shares why curiosity, laughter and storytelling are at the heart of every episode

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Believed to date from 1454, Merchiston Tower was home to John Napier, the inventor of logarithms.

Edinburgh Napier University set to sell original Merchiston site

Lisa Kerr, principal of George Watson's College

Exclusive Private school head 'could weep' over Edinburgh schools' overcrowding

Boroughmuir High is under pressure

Exclusive Pupils 'eating lunch in toilets' due to overcrowding at top school

Violent incidents in school have risen dramatically

City teachers facing 18 assaults a day as classroom violence rises

Saltersgate School is part of the Dalkeith Sports Community Campus.

Travellers site forces pupils to find alternative fire alarm meet spot

South Morningside Primary School has been named the 'best in the UK'

Edinburgh school named 'Primary School of the Year' in UK-wide awards

Children under age 16 will be banned from social media in a “big moment for our country”, Sir Keir Starmer said.

Sir Keir Starmer announces social media ban for under-16s

Brass Blast in a previous appearance at Portobello Town Hall

Young musicians take to stage to celebrate decade of unique project

Pupils will have to lock their phones away in pouches all the time they’re at school

Phones banned in Edinburgh high schools from August

Pupils will have to put their phones in lockable pouches and won’t have access to them until they’re going home

Mobile phone ban in schools: Older pupils could get more freedom

Kevin Lang (left0 with fellow Lib Dem councillors Lewis Younie and Louise Young outside Queensferry High School

Council urged to halt 'ludicrous' school transport changes

Four of the best performing primary schools in Midlothian.

Top Midlothian Primary Schools 2026: The 14 best performing primaries

Four of the best secondary schools in Edinburgh.

Top Edinburgh High Schools 2026: 13 schools with the best exam results

Calderglen Early Years Centre in Wester Hailes.

Petition launched to save Edinburgh nursery facing possible demolition

Lockable pouches where pupils place their phones could be rolled out to all Edinburgh high schools

Opposition groups yet to decide if they will back all-day phone ban

West Lothian Council headquarters

Judge rules West Lothian Council acted unlawfully over school toilets