John Swinney

Nicola Sturgeon will testify under oath on Wednesday about her role in the handling of sexual harassment complaints against Alex Salmond, hours after (...)

Schools are due to reopen as normal on January 6th despite the Government’s decision to reimpose Level 5 restrictions, the Taoiseach has said. Micheá(...)

UK education secretary Gavin Williamson is facing increasing pressure over his department’s mishandling of this summer’s school exam results in Englan(...)

Minister for Education Norma Foley has moved to reassure thousands of Leaving Cert students that the new calculated grades system will be “accurate, r(...)

More than 100,000 Scottish exam grades that were marked down last week will be reinstated, by restoring results to those recommended by teachers, Scot(...)

Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon has apologised to tens of thousands of teenagers whose exam results were downgraded last week and promised u(...)

Scotland’s exams authority has been warned it will be deluged with appeals after it rejected nearly 124,000 recommendations from teachers for this yea(...)

Thousands of people including Sir Bob Geldof will sleep out in freezing conditions in Scotland’s capital Edinburgh tonight to raise money to tackle ho(...)

A few weeks after the shock of the Brexit vote, the time for stunned silence or hysterical over-reaction is past. Governments – in London, Edinburgh (...)

When Nicola Sturgeon addresses delegates at the end of the Scottish National Party’s conference in Aberdeen today it will be as a leader with approval(...)