How do you solve a problem like teacher supply? #6

Behaviour is always a concern among teachers, but many school staff feel that Covid has made things worse. Senior reporter Emma Seith and Scotland editor Henry Hepburn look at what is happening in schools and delve into an often a polarised debate around behaviour, as they discuss the lat…

Free school meals are now offered to every child in the first five years of primary school in Scotland, and school food is much improved from the chips and cheese days of a generation ago. But in the midst of Covid and cuts crises, will the impetus remain for improving the quality of – and access –…

It was perhaps the strangest story ever reported by Tes in our 122-year history. In 1995, the world’s media descended on a school on the outskirts of Glasgow after it emerged that a teenage pupil called Brandon Lee – or so everyone thought – had actually been a man in his thirties. Now, the biz…

Could a fast-growing maths qualification change attitudes to the subject and overcome the phenomenon of “maths anxiety”? Senior reporter Emma Seith talks about the rise of “applications of maths” in Scotland, and how it makes a more explicit connection between the maths of the classroom and the mat…