Tag: Education

End “gender specific” school uniforms, says children’s tsar

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - February 12, 2012

BOYS should be allowed to wear skirts to school, according to Scotland’s Children’s Tsar. Tam Baillie said “genders specific uniforms can cause serious distress” to...

Boy, 8, banned from school playground, claim parents

Local News

Deadline News Journalist - February 9, 2012

A HYPERACTIVE primary pupil has been banned from the school playground for the past 18 months, his parents claimed today. Reece Philp, 8, is forced...

Scots students fined £5million for missing books

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - January 27, 2012

LAZY and selfish Scottish students have squandered at least £5m in fines for failing to return library books on time. The nation’s colleges have fined...

Scots city excludes twice as many pupils as national average

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - January 26, 2012

DUNDEE is excluding more pupils than any other area in Scotland, shocking new figures have revealed. The city’s primaries and secondaries had 1,862 exclusions in...

Exam board moves to cut student appeals

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - January 20, 2012

THE SCOTTISH exam watchdog is to charge schools for failed attempts to challenge pupils’ exam grades. The Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) says it hopes the...