Scottish Qualifications Authority

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

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...
Can the Education Secretary look parents in the eye and say ‘Trust me. I know what I’m doing’, asks John McLellan

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?

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