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James McEnaneyThe Scotsman |
The trouble with young people today is that they just can’t pay attention, have no focus, are disrespectful, unengaged, lazy, unimaginative… I...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. As anyone with even the most passing interest must be aware, Scotland’s...
On June 1, 2023, in a quiet room inside an emergency vet surgery in Glasgow, my dog Fionn died after eleven years by my side. I was living, and...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. For nearly a decade, the SNP insisted that improving the state of Scottish...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. So… another year, another exam scandal? The 2026 examination period isn’t even...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. At the time of writing this article, voting has begun for the 2026 Holyrood...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. Let me be clear: Green MSPs haven’t impressed me any more than those from the...
There is an election campaign going on just now, although you could just about be forgiven for having missing it. It may just be a result of the...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. It is starting to feel like the Mull School saga might never end. To recap: a new...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. According to official figures, there are nearly 2,500 schools in Scotland, and...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. Well there we have it: MSPs have given their final speeches of the current Scottish...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. When I’m investigating Scottish education, there’s no doubt that my...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. If you are in any way interested in, connected to, or affected by the various...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. "We will recruit at least 3,500 additional teachers and classroom assistants...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. More than a decade ago, the SNP declared it would “eliminate” the attainment...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. As you may already know, earlier this week campaigners from the Isle of Mull lost...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. An unfortunate reality of my job, and indeed the job of many...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. This week, the latest stage in the rebrand of the SQA got underway. We...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. Last year, officials in Falkirk Council launched a formal consultation...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. By the time you read this, Scotland’s largest teaching union will have...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. All across the country, and across various generations, people have very...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. As anyone with even a passing interest in Scottish education will know,...
When it comes to education, anyone can see that 2025 was yet another bruising year for the SNP and Scottish Government. A decade ago we were told to...
So what, exactly, does a specialist education journalist write about in a newsletter that will be sent out on Christmas day, and which also doubles as...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. Would you send your child to a school that had been described as...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. Over the past ten years I have, on occasion, criticised the SNP’s...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. When the NSPCC says that an initiative is vital for protecting children...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. If you’re reading this newsletter and take even a loose interest in...
On Wednesday, November, 19 at precisely 2.30PM, I and other journalists received an email from the Scottish Government. The message had the subject...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. As of this week, councillors in Dumfries and Galloway have approved a...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. Right now, Dumfries and Galloway Council is running an open consultation...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. School violence was the first topic on this week’s BBC Debate Night...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. At the beginning of this week, campaigners from the Isle of Mull...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. It feels like a very, very long time ago now, but back in 2021, the SNP...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. Earlier this week, the Scottish Government updated an advice document...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. Later on in this school year, my son will be heading off for a week...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. A couple of years ago, I took a trip to a primary school in Glasgow to...
At the beginning of this week, The Herald ran a story about Antonia Berry, who is the new rector at the High School of Glasgow. It’s not the sort...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. Have you heard about the Centre for Teaching Excellence? Probably not, but...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. A few days ago, a group of leading care and education charities warned that...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. Over the past ten years, when I’ve been speaking about the state of Scottish...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. As many of you know, before becoming a journalist I spent more than ten happy and...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. “We have no further comment to make.” It’s a statement that every...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. Over the last academic year, the NSPCC’s Childline service delivered nearly...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. Every year at this time, there are people who complain about the length of the...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. To all the parents, pupils, teachers, lecturers, support staff, and education...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. This week the SQA has released material reviewing its handling of the 2024 exam...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. Sometimes these distinctions are strictly political. It suits the Scottish...
This article appears as part of the Lessons to Learn newsletter. In recent weeks and months – in fact, going pretty much all the way back to...
In recent weeks and months, we’ve looked at various examples of councils trying to close nurseries using a process known as mothballing. This...
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