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Plans to give free school meals to Scots pupils in the first three years of primary school are likely to pass a crucial test.

BALGREEN primary school in the west of Edinburgh is one of only 11 schools in the country with a Place2Be.

LAST week, I managed to slip under the wire and swap the tedium of school for the excitement of attending a parliamentary reception for Mindroom, a Scottish charity.

THE former director of the commission for Racial Equality (CRE) in Scotland has been appointed as a member of the Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council

Revamped security and discipline policies, more specialized schools, a "Parent Academy" to help District parents take charge of their children's education and the possibility of more school closures are part of the long-term vision proposed by Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee in a new document.

Students in the $6 billion Reading First program have not made greater progress in understanding what they read than have peers outside the program, according to a congressionally mandated study.

IT has been six years in the planning, 18 months in construction and has cost £58 million.

A primary school kitchen "mothballed" by the council is set to reopen, following a successful community campaign.

STAFF and students at a Lothians college have donated £1000 to a breast cancer charity.

(Carnegie Mellon University) Sun Microsystems is teaming with Carnegie Mellon to support the continuing development of Alice, the university's innovative, Java technology-based computer programming environment that teaches students to program Java software while having fun creating 3-D animations, stories and video games.