Every year, parents of children approaching secondary school ... he wanted to enable more schools to become academies,” says Professor West. “The government’s Academies Act 2010 allowed maintained ...

Education Scotland confirmed it was the first state secondary school to be graded as “excellent” for learning, teaching and assessment since the introduction of the current model, called ...

For many, this means finding new schools too, pushing up demand, and therefore house prices, for the squeezed middle who aspire to live in the catchment areas of the top state secondary and non ...