Tag: Education

Pupils expelled from Edinburgh schools for teacher sex threats

Deadline News Journalist - July 26, 2010

By Oliver Farrimond Sex threats and stalking against teachers are among the reasons hundreds of Scots pupils have been sent home from school, it was...

Scotland's drug and drink shame goes back to school

Politics

Deadline News Journalist - July 25, 2010

By Michael MacLeod PARENTS have been blamed for new figures showing at least 550 Scots school pupils are thrown out of class for using drugs...

Schoolkids rub shoulders with stars

Deadline News Journalist - June 16, 2010

By Cara Sulieman YOUNG filmmakers will be rubbing shoulders with the stars this week as their creations hit the film festival. Schools across Edinburgh were asked...

No jail for £20,000 fraud nursery teacher

Deadline News Journalist - February 3, 2010

By Michael MacLeod A NURSERY nurse who swindled over £20,000 from a council by faking head teachers’ signatures on time sheets has avoided a jail...

Teacher numbers could continue to fall

Deadline News Journalist - January 29, 2010

By Paul Thornton EDUCATION Secretary Michael Russell MSP has admitted that the “freefall” of teacher numbers in Scotland will not be reversed and could get...

Sick Kids’ photographer walks free after child porn trial

Deadline News Journalist - November 17, 2009

By Andrea McCallum A CHILDREN’S hospital photographer has been cleared of child porn possession charges. Leonard Cumming, 59, was suspended from his job at The...

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