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Press and Media

Created on: 04 Jul 2018 | Last modified: 08 Dec 2025

Workload

Dec 2025 - Thats TV Lothian interview on reducing teaching contact hours

Violence and Misogyny

Mar 2025 - Edinburgh primary pupils putting Andrew Tate as wallpaper on school-issued iPads

Feb 2025 - Edinburgh Education: How violence in schools is seeing teachers scratched, bitten and having bones broken

Nov 2024 - Edinburgh pupils as 'young as six' attack teachers in wave of violence in schools

Nov 2023 - Edinburgh schools: Teachers face violence and aggression by pupils on a daily basis

Dec 2023 - Teachers say it's not just pupils who are violent and abusive - parents behave badly too

Jun 2019 - Fears of more violence in Edinburgh schools as cash runs out for additional support

Budget Concerns

Feb 2023 - Edinburgh education cuts 'would hit poor children' and could make staff 'finally break', warns union

May 2022 - Here's what teachers need from new council so they can properly educate children (and not go over the edge)

Feb 2020 - 'Devastating' Edinburgh school cuts could mean 'less than half a Netflix subscription' worth of cash left for jotters, textbooks and equipment per pupil

Jun 2019- 'No spare cash' for Edinburgh classroom support

Oct 2018 - Teachers in Edinburgh are having to buy basic supplies themselves

Education Policy

Feb 2020 - Knowing your pupils is more important than PISA results