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Most Scottish headteachers work more than 50 hours a week and worry about the impact the job has on their home life, a new study shows.

Global warming could change the “very fabric” of Scotland, environment secretary Richard Lochhead has warned.

Almost 20,000 Scots students have not received bursary payments needed for rent, books, and food due to a delay in processing applications.

The headteacher of one of Scotland’s leading private schools was reprimanded after pleading guilty to misconduct for "interrogating" a 10-year-old boy for nearly two hours over claims of drugs misuse.

The transformation of Scotland’s crumbling school estate is creating a two-tier system, according to a government report.

Public health chiefs want to blood test school pupils in a bid to track the swine flu virus as the anticipated second wave of the pandemic approaches.

The Scottish Government will today announce plans to change the law to enforce maximum class sizes of 25 in the first year of primary school.

Three-Quarters of Scots believe headteachers should have the final say on excluding pupils from school.

New teachers across Scotland say they are being deliberately denied the opportunity of a permanent post by local authorities because they have fewer employment rights.

Hundreds more families may be caught up in a legal row over entry to a flagship school in Scotland's top-performing education authority