Education

A SAVVY student has hit the high notes with a device that helps the hearing impaired to feel music.

A MOTHER has launched a heartfelt plea to fund groundbreaking treatment aimed at allowing her daughter to live a “normal life” after a battle with Tourette’s Syndrome.

THEY were once a place of hushed voices, where any noise was punished with an authoritarian shushing.

Controversial national assessments on P1 pupils have been carried out more than 11,500 times across Scotland since MSPs voted to scrap them.

A Catholic primary school struggling to recruit a head teacher has taken the “unprecedented” step of widening their search to non-Catholics – but will only give the full job title to those baptised in the faith.

One of Scotland’s first black supermodels is urging people working in fashion to join a union to help stamp out exploitation in the industry.

Plans to moor five floating hotels on the Union Canal have been sunk by councillors over fears high school pupils would not be able to access the water.

First editions of George Orwell classics Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four and a limited edition of TS Eliot's Dante will be among the star items at a Christian Aid sale in Edinburgh.

A WHEELCHAIR user has accused Lothian Buses of treating him as a second-class citizen by repeatedly refusing to let him on the new 100-seater buses.

KIRA Noble’s courageous battle against cancer and her determination to live life to the full while helping others facing similar illness have earned the city teenager a prestigious award.

An Edinburgh Napier ­student is bidding to take the reins of a major UK company for the day.Thomas Clark has been shortlisted for leading recruitment consultancy Odgers Berndston’s CEO for a Day programme and will link up with the Girls’ Day School Trust – the UK’s leading network of independent girls’ schools – next month.

The Beano is on the search for Britain’s funniest primary school class, helped by special guest judge, Harry Hill.

A CITY primary school is about to get its fourth headteacher in eight months after it was announced the current holder of the post has gone on leave of absence.

Academics from across Scotland have joined together to protest at attempts by a university to recruit a lecturer on a contract that does not pay them over the summer break.

COMMUNITY leaders have been left furious after after a “mindless” gang of youths ransacked a community allotment project in Leith.