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In Scotland, Computing Science has the largest gender gap of any STEM subject, a trend stuck in place for a decade. ​We often talk about role models, confidence & capability. These are symptoms of the root cause being access & equity.
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New Years Honours: The chief executive of a large multi-academy trust has been knighted, among many education figures celebrated
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🚨EXCL: The DfE has delayed its full delivery plan for how it's going to recruit 6,500 new teachers to next year.

This is despite the govt telling MPs from @CommonsPAC that further details on the key manifesto pledge would be published by this month.

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Teacher numbers target missed - but headcount rises slightly tes.com/magazine/news/…

🚨 New piece in @TesScotland exposes a hidden crisis in our classrooms: the sharp decline in school technicians supporting STEM across Scotland.
Our future innovators need more than good intentions — they need support.
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NEW: Teacher contact time plans include assemblies, tech and timetabling tes.com/magazine/news/…

Health and wellbeing 'underpins everything', School Leaders Scotland delegates are told tes.com/magazine/news/… @TesScotland

NEW: Scottish teachers get ‘certainty’ over pay for two years tes.com/magazine/news/… @EISUnion @TesScotland @tes

'The landscape around us is shifting and it is shifting at a pace we have never experienced before,' says @ADEScotland president Laurence Findlay at education directors' annual conference tes.com/magazine/news/… #ADES2025

Exclusive: Scottish chief inspector salary boosted after two failed recruitment drives

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NEW: The @EISUnion is recommending that its members accept a two-year pay offer tes.com/magazine/news/… @TesScotland

Call for parliamentary statement after @GMBScotOrg warns Scottish school support staff now ‘expect trouble’ and increasingly have to contend with violence tes.com/magazine/news/… @GMB_union

Call for parliamentary statement after @GMBScotOrg warns Scottish school support staff now ‘expect trouble’ and increasingly have to contend with violence tes.com/magazine/news/… @GMB_union

This is a really great piece by @ASCL_UK president @MannyBotwe - who is one of the speakers at the School Leaders Scotland annual conference next week. tes.com/magazine/leade… @TesScotland @tes

Teacher CPD is compulsory and structured according experience in Japan - in this piece Laurence Findlay, Aberdeenshire Council's director of education and children's services, reflects on a recent visit to the country and what Scotland can learn

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What can the Scotland learn from Japan’s ‘rigorous initial teacher education’ and its ‘structured approach to professional learning’
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An @sqanews report suggests that many pupils are reluctant to use AI in case they are accused of cheating, and that they want clearer advice from school tes.com/magazine/news/… @TesScotland @tes

Exclusive: Survey by @SSTAtradeunion finds ‘alarming’ numbers of non-specialists taking subject classes, with secondary schools also heavily relying on primary teachers amid ‘deepening crisis’ of staff shortages tes.com/magazine/news/… @TesScotland