Scottish Power Schools Competition

Primary teachers across Scotland are being encouraged to nominate their school business for the ScottishPower Schools Best Budding Business competition.
The utility company will reward the most enterprising primary school and is looking to find out what school pupils have accomplished to date in setting up their own businesses.
ScottishPower is on the look out for school [...]

Whisky, whisky all around and not a drop to drink…

Topping up at the petrol pump is about to take an intriguing twist as cars are set to be fuelled with a new super biofuel, made from whisky by-products.
Edinburgh Napier University has filed a patent for the new biofuel, which can be used in ordinary cars, without any special adaptions needed.
The [...]

Evening Classes

Or Night School as it used to be called!
Time on your hands? Want to learn something new and meet new friends while you do it?  Then why not sign up to Edinburgh’s new Adult Education classes.
With day, evening and weekend courses being offered at venues across the city, there is a variety of [...]

Mental Wellbeing Awards

A charity that aims to prevent young people committing suicide has launched an award scheme to promote positive mental health on UK university campuses.
The Papyrus Award for Mental Wealth initiatives offers students and staff £300 to run wellbeing campaigns, particularly during freshers’ week when new students have a high risk of [...]

Record passes at Higher grade

A new record pass rate for Highers, at 74.6 per cent, has been achieved by Scottish students this year whilst the strong record of achievement in Standard Grades has been maintained.
More than 160,000 young people who sat Standard Grades, Highers and other qualifications this school year will receive their exam results by post on August [...]

35 New Schools for Scotland

The first tranche of the £1.25 billion Scotland’s Schools for the Future programme will see every local authority benefit. Funding will be made available for 14 secondary schools, 20 primary schools and one special school, with the Scottish Futures Trust working in partnership with the councils to deliver the new projects.
Keith Brown, Minister for Skills [...]

School Term Dates in Edinburgh

Summer term
Friday 2 April 2010 – Good Friday
Monday 5 April 2010 – Easter Monday
Monday 19 April 2010 – Spring Holiday
Tuesday 20 April 2010 – All resume
Monday 03 May 2010 – May Day, schools closed
Monday 17 May 2010 – Victoria Day, schools closed
Tuesday 18 May 2010* – Staff resume
Wednesday 19 May 2010* – Staff only
Thursday 20 [...]

Gaelic School in Edinburgh

So cue the Edinburgh all-Gaelic school. It is set to get a share of some £100,000 of government funding to provide funds for early years initiatives. It is not very clear from the article that we found on the Public Service website whether the school is made up of parts of different schools, or is [...]

Stevenson College

The celebrations were officially launched on 28th January when Robin Harper MSP gave a historical perspective of Robert Stevenson, the famous civil engineer, after whom the College is named. Among the events planned throughout the year is a fashion show with music and fashions from the 70’s, 80’s 90’s and 00’s, Stevenson’s Got Talent for [...]

Scottish Power Reading Challenge

To stand a chance of winning an exclusive visit by a popular children’s author, all you need to do is register for the ScottishPower Story Swap Shop before the deadline of Friday May 14th.
Already schools across the country have signed up to take part in the initiative which encourages youngsters to recycle books with [...]

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