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Icon for www.standard.co.ukLondon Evening Standard · 29d

Education Secretary ‘surprised’ by Dundee University staff job loss total

Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth said she had been ‘surprised’ to learn that 700 staff Dundee University could lose their jobs (Jane Barlow/PA) Scotland’s Education Secretary said she had ...
Yahoo News UK · 9h

Scotland in education 'crisis' as students and trade unions call for government to fix system

The letter to Scotland's minister for higher and further education was written by NUS Scotland president Sai Shraddha S Viswanathan and is signed by representatives from the STUC, Unite the Union, EIS,
Northern Times · 12d

Labour seeks to force SQA bosses to re-apply for jobs in new body

The Scottish Government announced following a 2021 report by the OECD and another by academic Professor Ken Muir that it would scrap the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) and replace it with a new body – Qualifications Scotland – through the Education (Scotland) Bill.