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Stressed out school kids hit back at SQA with spoof Twitter account

SCOTLAND’S under-pressure school kids have taken revenge on exams body the SQA - by creating a Twitter account to ridicule the new Curriculum for...

Run up to new exams labelled “shambolic” by concerned teachers

PREPARATIONS for Scotland’s first new school exam in 22 years are “shambolic” according to teachers’ leaders. An estimated 65,000 S4 pupils are due to sit...

Calls for violent pupils to be permanently banned

VIOLENT children who disrupt classes should be permanently banned from mainstream schools, a Scottish teaching union has said. The Scottish Secondary Teachers’ Association (SSTA) says...

Parents face jail in truanting crackdown

THE parents of three Scottish youngsters face up to a month in jail for letting the youngsters skip school. Education bosses in Edinburgh have started...

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