Teachers face increasing stress levels but there is “little opportunity” for them to receive care or support for their mental health, according to Barnardo’s Scotland. In a paper looking at mental health and wellbeing in education, the charity argues teachers should have access to similar supp...
Scotland’s largest teaching union, the EIS,last week wrote to directors of educationurging them to carry out new risk assessments for vulnerable teachers - includingthose from black and/or minority ethnic backgrounds- “to ensure that the staff in our schools remain safe in their places of work...
Concerns have been raised about support for pupils withadditional support needs (ASN)after figures showed that the number of specialist teachers in Scotland fell by more than 1,000 in a decade. The data shows that, in 2019, schools employed the full-time equivalent (FTE) of 2,836 specialist...
Key data from the survey - which will remain open until Monday,the day before the new school year starts in Scotland- includes: • 24,354teachers completed the survey between its launch on Tuesday 4 August and the morning of Thursday 6 August. • 64 per centsupport the decision to reop...
Teacher support for ASN pupils Scottish Greens education spokesman Ross Greer said today: “Thousands of children in Scotland with additional needs are being failed. “I have raised this with the government time and againover a number of years, but the picture still is not improving.” ...
Sexual harassment in schools - including pupils secretly taking pictures up teachers’ skirts - remains a major issue in Scotland