Scottish Qualifications Authority

Less than half of S4 pupils gain key maths qualification

These Edinburgh pupils were delighted with their exam results.

Capital pupils receive exam results

Special measures to make sure students sitting major exams weren't unfairly impacted by the pandemic have gradually slowed down (Photo: National World/Getty/Adobe Stock)

Do pupils still get Covid consideration in exams? All you need to know

Most younger children in Midlothian would no longer have access to any musical instrument tuition under the proposals put forward by the council.

Musical instrument lessons for most children to be axed in Scottish council area

The SQA has indicated exam changes will remain in place through to 2023. Picture: PA

Scottish exam changes to continue into 2023

The SQA has issued an update about this year's exams diet.

‘Generous’ grading system for exams under measures to tackle schools' disruption

EMBARGOED TO 2200 MONDAY AUGUST 23 File photo dated 07/03/12 of a general view of pupils sitting an exam. The Government should launch a major inquiry to understand the reasons why boys underperform at school compared to girls, it has been suggested. Issue date: Monday August 23, 2021. Professor Alan Smithers, director of the Centre for Education and Employment Research at the University of Buckingham, said we do not have a ???sound basis for tackling boys??? performance relative to girls???. See PA story EDUCATION Gender. Photo credit should read: David Jones/PA Wire

Decision on Scottish school exams going ahead may not be made until March

Exams are set to be reformed

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

The Scottish Government said exams would return to normal this year if public health allows.

Teachers 'under more workload strain' amid three possible exam scenarios

The Scottish exams results are in

Exam results fall overall from last year

Deputy First Minister John Swinney was moved from education and put in charge of the Covid recovery (Picture: Fraser Bremner/Scottish Daily Mail/PA Wire)

No wonder John Swinney got expelled as Education Secretary – John McLellan

High school pupils have this year sat alternative assessments.

Scottish schools withdrawing pupils accused of ‘massaging results’

A teenager taking a exam. Picture: David Davies/PA Wire

Young people forced to take 'perverse gamble' on grades over appeals process

Schools remain close as the Covid crisis continues, prompting suggestions that senior pupils should repeat a year (Picture: Scott Merrylees)

School pupils should not be forced to repeat a year – John McLellan

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

Are exams cancelled in Scottish schools and what will replace them?

John Swinney is under pressure around the cancellation of the 2021 exam diet.

Scots exam replacements must be 'urgently' set out
John Swinney and the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) have been urged to set out exactly what will replace the cancelled Higher and Advanced Higher exam diet in Scotland by the country’s children’s commissioner.
Conor Matchett

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

A Scottish pupil opens their exam results

Scottish exams authority paid £140k to private firms to remark grades

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...

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

In the absence of normal exams, surely teachers are best placed to judge their pupils’ grades (Picture: PA)

I expected better from the SNP than this betrayal of Scotland’s school pupils – ...

Scottish students stage exam results protests in Edinburgh and Glasgow

Sturgeon and Swinney warned to 'get exam results fixed or go'

Results will be published on 4 August

Here's how SQA Highers and National 5 exams are being marked this year

Pupils across the country are celebrating their results after an incredible year where exams were cancelled for the first time in Scotland.

Edinburgh pupils improve their grades on last year

Results day is always a nervous time for pupils (Picture: PA)

Brave New World of exam results day – Angus Robertson

No exams took place this year

Exam body braced for record appeals as Scots pupils receive their results

Results being delivered by text at Kilgraston independent school for girls in Bridge of Earn, Perth

When do Scottish exam results come out?
Read here to find out more about results day in Scotland.
Katharine Hay

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

Changes will be made to the examination process in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak.

Scottish teachers have 'deep unease' over lockdown exam changes

LOVE Learning will take over Gorgie Farm and all the animals will remain there.

Former Gorgie City Farm appeals for volunteers ahead of it reopening as LOVE Gor...

Students pictured sitting mock exams

Scottish independent schools appeal three times as many exam results

Scottish Education Secretary John Swinney with celebrating school pupils. Picture: PA

Edinburgh above average as Scottish Higher exam pass rate falls nationwide

Scottish Education Secretary John Swinney with celebrating school pupils. Picture: PA

Scottish exams: Exam pass rates fall at nearly every level

Fraser Doherty wants to encourage young entrepreneurs to take part in the Tenner Challenge

‘Jam boy’ Fraser spreads word on Tenner Challenge

The National 5 exam wrongly stated that Mary Stuart died in 1567 - 20 years earlier than her actual gruesome demise. Picture: Contributed

Pupils '˜upset' after exam board's blunder over Mary Queen of Scots

Thousands of young Scots are preparing to sit assessments as the exam period gets under way this week. Picture: PA Wire

Exam period under way for thousands of young Scots

Emmanuel Ogedegbe and his wife Hazel. Picture: Jon Savage

Edinburgh chef picks up special award

The latest figures show a significant fall in the number of girls studying science subjects to Higher level in the past decade. Picture: TSPL

Labour concern over slump in number of girls studying science

Musical instrument lesson fees scrapped

Watt a result in car project

Put world at fingertips in adult education classes

St Andrews University blames computer fault for leaked exam results

Clock ticking for pupils to arrange exam results service

Youths get creative for competition

City student’s food thesis catches eye of top supermarket

Writing through time