http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/educationScottish Education News | Herald ScotlandenCopyright 2012 Herald & Times Group all rights reservedSat, 26 May 2012 08:55:03 PDTCopyright 2012 Herald & Times Group all rights reservednoScottish Education News | Herald Scotlandhttp://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/student-loans-boss-to-stand-down.1337945441http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/student-loans-boss-to-stand-down.1337945441Student Loans Company head Ed Lester will stand down when his contract expires next year in the wake of controversy over his tax arrangements.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/student-loans-boss-to-stand-down.1337945409http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/student-loans-boss-to-stand-down.1337945409Student Loans Company head Ed Lester will stand down when his contract expires next year in the wake of controversy over his tax arrangements.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/curriculum-audit-branded-a-whitewash.17674609http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/curriculum-audit-branded-a-whitewash.17674609AN audit to find out how ready Scottish secondary schools are to deliver controversial new exams has been dismissed as a shallow whitewash.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/college-to-cut-jobs-and-courses.17656887http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/college-to-cut-jobs-and-courses.17656887A COLLEGE in one of the most deprived parts of Scotland is cutting courses and jobs following Government funding cuts.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/fixed-term-teaching-plan.17667502http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/fixed-term-teaching-plan.17667502SCOTTISH teachers should get five-year fixed-term contracts as part of moves to drive up school standards, the Scottish Parliament heard yesterday.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/new-exam-is-aimless-and-unsuitable.17636707http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/new-exam-is-aimless-and-unsuitable.17636707THE headteacher of a leading Scottish private school that pulled out of controversial new qualifications has told The Herald they are not a suitable replacement for Standard Grade.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/student-debt-levels-lowest-in-scotland.17657624http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/student-debt-levels-lowest-in-scotland.17657624A SIGNIFICANT gulf has opened up between the debts of students from Scotland and their counterparts in the rest of the UK.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/student-leaders-call-for-university-shake-up.17633736http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/student-leaders-call-for-university-shake-up.17633736STUDENT leaders have called for a radical shake-up of university entry procedures in Scotland to prevent discrimination.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/8500-university-applications-copied.17637269http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/8500-university-applications-copied.17637269ALMOST 8500 students were suspected of copying their university applications last year.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/500m-language-tax-cost-to-scots-economy.17621793http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/500m-language-tax-cost-to-scots-economy.17621793A DECLINE in language learning at Scottish schools and universities is costing the economy at least half a billion pounds every year.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/new-school-curriculum-spurs-call-for-university-admission-reforms.17622228http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/new-school-curriculum-spurs-call-for-university-admission-reforms.17622228SCOTTISH universities need a radical overhaul of their admissions procedures to prevent discrimination against pupils, a new report warns.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/high-price-for-decade-of-failings.17625752http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/high-price-for-decade-of-failings.17625752IMPROVING language learning in schools is becoming an economic necessity.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/key-recommendations.17625838http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/key-recommendations.17625838"We will create the conditions in which every child will learn two languages in addition to their own mother tongue."http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/hi-tech-future-for-classroom-teaching.17611101http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/hi-tech-future-for-classroom-teaching.17611101THE use of mobile devices and tablet computers in Scottish classrooms could be expanded in a bid to modernise teaching and learning.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/new-call-to-recruit-more-working-class-students.17556641http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/new-call-to-recruit-more-working-class-students.17556641SCOTLAND'S elite universities are recruiting a smaller proportion of students from working-class backgrounds than they were 10 years ago despite moves to increase equality.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/legislation-will-focus-attention.17556643http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/legislation-will-focus-attention.17556643These statistics are best understood as a standstill because you have to see it against a background of population change.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/school-food-row-council-will-not-overhaul-meals.1336755823http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/school-food-row-council-will-not-overhaul-meals.1336755823A local authority at the centre of a row over school meals has insisted the food on offer is adequate.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/teachers-call-for-action.17559489http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/teachers-call-for-action.17559489SCOTLAND'S controversial curriculum today faces a fresh threat of industrial action.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/russell-urged-to-act-as-fees-row-deepens.17549366http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/russell-urged-to-act-as-fees-row-deepens.17549366THE Scottish Government is facing pressure to take action to resolve the growing confusion over university fees.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/teachers-under-facebook-pressure.17552826http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/teachers-under-facebook-pressure.17552826SCOTTISH teachers are under pressure to use email or social networking sites to stay in contact with pupils during weekends and evenings, a union warned.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/fees-loophole-may-be-more-widespread.17487386http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/fees-loophole-may-be-more-widespread.17487386A LEGAL loophole that could allow thousands of people in other parts of the UK free university places in Scotland is more widespread than first thought.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/concern-at-lack-of-qualified-nursery-teachers.17527346http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/concern-at-lack-of-qualified-nursery-teachers.17527346HEADTEACHERS, teachers and parents have attacked the Scottish Government's record on nursery education, arguing the service is being "dismantled".http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/out-in-the-open.17527257http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/out-in-the-open.17527257Are schools becoming easier places in which to be gay?http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/schools-fee-freeze-pays-off-as-applications-rise.17490326http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/schools-fee-freeze-pays-off-as-applications-rise.17490326A SCOTTISH private school that took the unprecedented step of freezing its fees to lure back middle-class families has seen a sharp rise in applications.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/university-is-accused-of-breaking-job-cuts-pledge.17517707http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/university-is-accused-of-breaking-job-cuts-pledge.17517707ONE of Scotland's oldest universities has been accused of breaching a pledge not to introduce compulsory redundancies.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/university-fees-nationality-loophole.17464995http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/university-fees-nationality-loophole.17464995THE Scottish Government will have to pay for the university education of students from Northern Ireland because of a loophole in the law.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/teachers-say-exam-audit-is-superficial.17459272http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/teachers-say-exam-audit-is-superficial.17459272A NATIONAL audit to find out if Scottish schools are ready to introduce controversial new exams has been dismissed as "superficial" by the country's largest teaching union.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/culture-class-for-retail-staff.17457011http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/culture-class-for-retail-staff.17457011STAFF at the Edinburgh branch of the upmarket fashion retailer Harvey Nichols are to receive lessons in how to conduct themselves with customers from overseas.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/dos-and-donts.17457583http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/dos-and-donts.17457583Russiahttp://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/heriot-watt-staff-facing-huge-cuts.17459320http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/heriot-watt-staff-facing-huge-cuts.17459320LECTURING unions have warned that a Scottish university is to cut one-quarter of its staff at a satellite campus in the Borders.nonadult