Recent research has looked at the effect of bullying on the ‘big five’ personality traits.

Physical education has many cognitive benefits for kids – including for their working memory, problem solving and maths performance.

The Scottish government must choose to fund outdoor education or a bill aiming to give all children the experience will fail.

By listening more closely to the interests and goals of young people in schools, we can start to provide the language teaching they want.

Pupils must adapt to new teachers, routines, academic demands and social dynamics.

Members of both the EIS and SSTA unions have signalled support for strike action if the reduction in class-contact time is not delivered

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A trial has found that 98% of staff felt morale and motivation had improved with reduced hours.

But local authorities say that government funding to date does ‘not come close’ to the true cost of delivering the policy and it could have ‘a detrimental impact’ on pupils

‘Exhausted and burnt out’ teachers urgently need the long-promised reduction in class-contact time, says Scottish Secondary Teachers’ Association

Teachers in Scotland have lost patience over the slow progress on cutting class-contact time by 90 minutes a week, says SSTA

A languages curriculum enriched with linguistics is appealing to students and teachers.

This casual phrase might seem harmless but it misunderstands what autism really is and can do real harm to autistic people.

The Scottish government should immediately withdraw its ‘out of date’ guidance for schools and issue new guidance in the wake of Supreme Court ruling, says SSTA

Teachers are calling on the Scottish government to urgently publish new guidance following a landmark Supreme Court ruling.

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The Scottish Government and councils must fundamentally rethink how they plan, fund and staff additional support for learning as part of core school education

There are two specific areas where we believe the new proposals have particularly failed: inspector conduct and inspection accountability.

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A focus on resilience risks shifting responsibility for mental health onto those affected, rather than calling out factors contributing to poor mental health.