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Make sure to get our new-look, expanded Scottish newsletter - out every term-time Thursday. Here's how to sign up (free of charge) for news and analysis on all the big issues affecting Scottish schools, straight to your inbox👇 tes.com/magazine/news/genera…

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Tes Global @TesGlobalX

🔊New deadline alert!🔊 We've extended the deadline to submit your Tes Schools Awards entry! Celebrate your achievements with the education community and gain national recognition for your success!🎉 Entries close Friday 13 March, don't miss your chance!⏳ Enter now👉🔗eu1.hubs.ly/H0snYM30 #TesAwards #TesSchoolsAwards2026

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Toni Scullion @ScullionToni

In Scotland, Computing Science has the largest gender gap of any STEM subject, a trend stuck in place for a decade. We often talk about role models, confidence & capability. These are symptoms of the root cause being access & equity. @TesScotland tes.com/magazine/analysis/ge…

How school leaders can tackle Scotland’s tech gender crisis

The growing gender gap in computing science is worrying not only for equality but also the economy - but there are practical, proven strategies schools leader can adopt, says Toni Scullion

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After a break for the school holiday, our free weekly email newsletter is back on Thursday afternoon (8 January) - make sure to sign up here if you haven't already tes.com/magazine/news/genera…

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Find out more about what’s inside the Tes newsletters and how to get them delivered to your inbox - including our new MAT Tracker newsletter for the 2026-27 school year

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New Years Honours: The chief executive of a large multi-academy trust has been knighted, among many education figures celebrated tes.com/magazine/news/genera…

New Year Honours: MAT boss knighted and other leaders recognised

Six multi-academy trust leaders are among the education figures included in the New Year Honours list

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Cerys Turner @cerysturner7

🚨EXCL: The DfE has delayed its full delivery plan for how it's going to recruit 6,500 new teachers to next year. This is despite the govt telling MPs from @CommonsPAC that further details on the key manifesto pledge would be published by this month. tes.com/magazine/news/genera…

Plan to deliver 6,500 more teachers delayed

Government had aimed to publish its plan to fulfil its manifesto promise by the end of the year - but now tells Tes this will be released along with its White Paper

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Teacher numbers target missed - but headcount rises slightly tes.com/magazine/news/genera…

Teacher numbers target missed - but headcount rises slightly

Teacher numbers in Scotland increased by 63 between 2024 and 2025, meaning the government has fallen short of its target to restore numbers to 2023 levels

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SSERC @SSERCofficial

🚨 New piece in @TesScotland exposes a hidden crisis in our classrooms: the sharp decline in school technicians supporting STEM across Scotland. Our future innovators need more than good intentions — they need support. 🔗 tes.com/magazine/analysis/se…

Disappearing technicians a ‘hidden crisis’ in Scottish schools

‘Without us, the hands-on side of education simply can’t happen,’ say secondary school technicians - but survey shows their number has more than halved in two decades, says Alastair MacGregor

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NEW: Teacher contact time plans include assemblies, tech and timetabling tes.com/magazine/news/genera…

Teacher contact time plans include assemblies, tech and timetabling

Scottish government proposals also call for pilot schemes to ‘begin immediately’ but councils have ‘significant concerns’ about cost and impact - and, along with unions, say they’ve been blindsided

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Henry Hepburn @Henry_Hepburn

Health and wellbeing 'underpins everything', School Leaders Scotland delegates are told tes.com/magazine/news/second… @TesScotland

Health and wellbeing ‘underpins everything’, school leaders told

The profound change happening in Scottish education makes it more important than ever to support colleagues and pupils, says outgoing SLS president

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Henry Hepburn @Henry_Hepburn

NEW: Scottish teachers get ‘certainty’ over pay for two years tes.com/magazine/news/genera… @EISUnion @TesScotland @tes

Scottish teachers get ‘certainty’ over pay for two years

But hours after the pay deal announcement details emerge of a ballot on strike action over teachers’ class-contact time

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Henry Hepburn @Henry_Hepburn

'The landscape around us is shifting and it is shifting at a pace we have never experienced before,' says @ADEScotland president Laurence Findlay at education directors' annual conference tes.com/magazine/news/genera… #ADES2025

Education landscape ‘shifting like never before’, says ADES

President of Scotland’s education directors’ body calls for a collaborative response to the sector’s challenges, saying that ‘leadership is most powerful when it’s shared’

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Emma Seith @Emma_Seith

Exclusive: Scottish chief inspector salary boosted after two failed recruitment drives tes.com/magazine/news/genera…

Scottish chief inspector salary boosted after failure to recruit

The upper end of the salary scale has increased by over £45,000 - prompting a union to question the ‘significant’ amount being spent on ‘an outdated accountability model’

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Henry Hepburn @Henry_Hepburn

NEW: The @EISUnion is recommending that its members accept a two-year pay offer tes.com/magazine/news/genera… @TesScotland

EIS recommends members accept two-year pay offer

Accepting the teacher pay offer would lead to initial 4.25 per cent rise for Scottish teachers, followed by 3.25 per cent in second year

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Call for parliamentary statement after @GMBScotOrg warns Scottish school support staff now ‘expect trouble’ and increasingly have to contend with violence tes.com/magazine/news/genera… @GMB_union

Scottish school support staff now ‘expect trouble’, union warns

First minister responds after GMB union highlights ‘dramatic escalation in violence and threatening behaviour’ in Scottish schools

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Call for parliamentary statement after @GMBScotOrg warns Scottish school support staff now ‘expect trouble’ and increasingly have to contend with violence tes.com/magazine/news/genera… @GMB_union

Scottish school support staff now ‘expect trouble’, union warns

First minister responds after GMB union highlights ‘dramatic escalation in violence and threatening behaviour’ in Scottish schools

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Henry Hepburn @Henry_Hepburn

This is a really great piece by @ASCL_UK president @MannyBotwe - who is one of the speakers at the School Leaders Scotland annual conference next week. tes.com/magazine/leadership/… @TesScotland @tes

Manny Botwe: ‘I may be the only professional Black male my pupils see’

In our How I Lead series, we ask education leaders to reflect on their careers, their experience and their leadership philosophy. This month we talk to Manny Botwe, headteacher and president of ASCL...

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Emma Seith @Emma_Seith

Teacher CPD is compulsory and structured according experience in Japan - in this piece Laurence Findlay, Aberdeenshire Council's director of education and children's services, reflects on a recent visit to the country and what Scotland can learn tes.com/magazine/analysis/ge…

What Japan can tell us about teacher workforce planning

Japan’s ‘rigorous initial teacher education’ and its ‘structured approach to professional learning’ left an impression on the president of Scotland’s national body for education directors

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What can the Scotland learn from Japan’s ‘rigorous initial teacher education’ and its ‘structured approach to professional learning’ tes.com/magazine/analysis/ge…

New Magazine Experience

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Henry Hepburn @Henry_Hepburn

An @sqanews report suggests that many pupils are reluctant to use AI in case they are accused of cheating, and that they want clearer advice from school tes.com/magazine/news/genera… @TesScotland @tes

Students reluctant to use AI for fear of cheating accusations

Only 55 per cent of young people feel their school is clear about appropriate use of AI, finds Scottish Qualifications Authority report

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Henry Hepburn @Henry_Hepburn

Exclusive: Survey by @SSTAtradeunion finds ‘alarming’ numbers of non-specialists taking subject classes, with secondary schools also heavily relying on primary teachers amid ‘deepening crisis’ of staff shortages tes.com/magazine/news/genera… @TesScotland

SSTA finds ‘alarming’ numbers of non-specialists taking classes

‘Deepening crisis’ of staff shortages also sees primary teachers frequently taking on roles in secondary schools, reveals survey by Scottish Secondary Teachers’ Association

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