Education Secretary

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

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

Ofsted changes being considered after death of headteacher

Teachers on strike pictured outside Edinburgh City Chambers in November. Photo by Lisa Ferguson.

'It's up to unions to suspend strikes for exams' says education secretary

Education convener Joan Griffiths says "clear educational benefits" were identified in having a shared campus at Liberton. Picture: Lisa Ferguson.

City centre search for site for new Gaelic school is underway

Mask rules in schools are eased from Monday

Higher History S5/S6 Armadale Academy students/pupils wear masks in the classroom along with their teacher

West Lothian has been placed into Tier 3 alon with the rest of the Central Belt

COVID 19, CORONA VIRUS - From today teachers and S4-S6 pupils must wear face masks/face coverings in classrooms in the new tier 3 and tier 4 COVID 19 restrictions.

Senior pupils and their teachers are being advised to wear face coverings in classrooms for schools in the new level 3 and 4 restriction areas.

The Scottish government has released new guidance on school safety to take account of the five-level Covid alert system, which begins on Monday.

Other guidance advises staff to wear face coverings in all schools, where social distancing is not possible.

And parents should wear masks even at drop-off and pick-up.

Removal of masks in classrooms a ‘positive milestone’, Education Secretary says

Exams are set to be reformed

Exams in Scotland to be reformed, but not scrapped, Education Secretary says

School mobile phone bans considered in behaviour consultation (Photo: TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)

School mobile phone bans considered in behaviour consultation

The former Royal High School is one of the sites Cllr Chas Booth has asked about

Questions over Gaelic secondary school sites

Gavin Williamson has branded the move to take down the Queen's portrait as absurd (WPA Pool/Getty)

Oxford students vote to remove Queen’s portrait as she is ‘colonial symbol’

Pupils arrive at Clyde Primary School in Glasgow on February 22, 2021 as schools in Scotland started to reopen to more of the youngest students in an easing of the coronavirus shutdown. (Photo by Andy Buchanan / AFP) (Photo by ANDY BUCHANAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Young children return to school as classrooms reopen

A 'free speech champion' could be appointed at universities - but what does it mean? (Photo: Shutterstock)

A 'free speech champion' could be appointed at universities - but what does it m...

Deputy First Minister John Swinney

Parents could get less than two weeks notice for schools return

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Education Minister John Swinney has confirmed Nat 5 and Higher examinations are cancelled (Picture: Getty Images)

'School return in February is a tall order', warns Scotland’s Education Secretar...
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Deputy First Minister and Education Secretary John Swinney says it is a 'tall order' for pupils in Scotland to be back in schools by February (Photo: Fraser Bremner).

‘School return in February is a tall order', warns John Swinney

Scotland's Highers and Advanced Highers are still scheduled to go ahead

John Swinney urged to 'end the uncertainty' and cancel Scottish Highers

Vaccinating all over 50s could be complete by next summer

All over 50s in Scotland to get Covid vaccine by next summer

Schools returned in August after a Spring lockdown

Blended learning to return if Scottish schools holiday is extended

National 5 exams have already been cancelled in Scotland due to the Covid-19 pandemic but a decision on the more advanced tests have been given the provisional go-ahead by John Swinney. (Photo by Fraser Bremner - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Go-ahead for Higher exams to be decided before February deadline

Scots schools returned in August

Scots teachers back strike action over Covid safety fears

It has been revealed that National 5 exams in Scotland have been cancelled for 2021 (Photo: Shutterstock)

Scottish National 5 exams for 2021 have been cancelled

John Swinney.

John Swinney exam statement: RECAP

Pollock Halls at Edinburgh University

Education Secretary tells students to stay in halls and not return home

With children being sent home from school due to cases of Coronavirus, what should parents do if their children are sent home because somebody else has tested positive? (Photo by OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Here’s what parents should do if their child is sent home from school due to cor...

Education spokesperson Ross Greer is calling for John Swinney to cancel the entire 2021 exam diet.

Scottish Greens call on John Swinney to cancel all exams next year
The Scottish Greens have called for next year’s school exams to be cancelled.
Emma O'Neill

The Education Secretary has said that the SQA is already working on contingency plans if the exams are cancelled again.

Next year's school exams at 'very real risk' of disruption

Pupils returning to Glasgow's Holyrood High School

Masks in high schools mandatory from August 31

Gavin Williamson, the Education Secretary for England, has been in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons recently, following the disastrous way in which A level results were handled by the government this year (Photo: Peter Summers/Getty Images)

Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has been called to resign over the A levels...

John Swinney’s time as Education Secretary should be over after he presided over this year’s exams fiasco (Picture: Fraser Bremner/Scottish Daily Mail/PA Wire)

John Swinney’s U-turn has wrecked the exam system for years to come – John McLel...

Pupils protest against the downgrading of marks at Holyrood (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Exams climbdown is a good day for democracy – Ian Murray

School students demonstrate outside the Scottish Parliament over the downgrading of exam results by the Scottish Qualifications Authority (Photo: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

The SQA exam controversy explained as pupils to have results upgraded

John Swinney has performed a major u-turn around exam results

John Swinney's exam results statement in full

Calls for John Swinney's resignation have come after a letter branded the exam results a "shambles". Picture: PA

What time is John Swinney's exam statement

Pupils return to school this week (Picture: John Devlin)

Schools deserve at least the same protection as football – Alison Johnstone

Deputy First Minister of Scotland and Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills John Swinney has been under fire since the release of exam results on August 4 (Getty Images)

John Swinney: the life and career of SNP Education Secretary facing vote of conf...

John Swinney defended the moderation system

John Swinney rejects claims poorer Scots pupils were 'shafted' over grades

Edinburgh schools are due to reopen on Wednesday August 12

Distancing 'impossible' in city high schools

The Scottish Government is now telling parents kids will be back in school full time, but with stringent conditions attached(Picture: John Devin)

John Swinney’s back-to-school message may not be all it seems – John McLellan

Children have already missed out on three months of classroom education (Picture: John Devlin)

Edinburgh schools: Here’s how to get our kids back in classrooms – Ian Murray

Schools are unlikely to return to normal in the next academic year and exams in 2021 could be pushed later into the summer, Education Secretary John Swinney has warned.

Scottish schools ‘unlikely’ to return to normal next year, John Swinney says

Social distancing measures as a child studies on a marked table at Kempsey Primary School in Worcester.

Scottish pupils could have 'blended' home and school learning for a year

Education Secretary John Swinney. Picture: John Devlin

Controversial P1 tests to continue with modifications, says John Swinney

College lecturers striking over pay outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. Pic: Tom Eden/PA Wire

Education secretary defends 12% pay rise offer as lecturers strike

John Swinney, Deputy First Minister of Scotland. Picture: John Devlin.

John Swinney '˜should say sorry for fabricating support for P1 testing'

There are concerns about testing for primary one pupils introduced by the Scottish Government

Scots primary one pupils left crying by '˜cruel' national testing

Teachers have criticised many of the Education reforms.

Staff driving education reform don't believe they can deliver

Guidelines for the planned child care laws will be drawn up by a panel led by Ian Welsh, whose organisation receives million of pounds in government funding. Picture: SNS/Alan Harvey

John Swinney's Named Person supervisor comes under fire

John Swinney at the party conference.

Warning to Swinney over powers for schools

Picture: John Devlin

Teachers urged to say how they can reduce their workload

Angela Constance. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Angela Constance set to to lose education cabinet post

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