The Cabinet Secretary for Education, Jenny Gilruth has announced that the Scottish Government is to set up a new centre of excellence for teaching. This announcement was made during the Minister’s address to delegates at the SNP conference in Aberdeen on Sunday 15 October, in which she stated that the…

The Scottish Government recently consulted on plans to set a legal minimum number of hours of school education school pupils should receive each year. This provision is already contained within the Education (Scotland) Act 2016 but has remained unenacted since the legislation came into force. Our response to the consultation focuses…

GTC Scotland, the independent professional and regulatory body for teaching in Scotland, has released Creativity in learning and teaching: a professional guide for teachers. The guide was written in partnership with the National Creative Learning Network. Embedding creative learning and teaching is important as Scotland prepares its young people for…