Election 2026: children in Scotland – the next five years
What’s next for children in Scotland? Party manifestos reveal shared priorities – and deep divides on education’s future
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Playing smarter: how play builds human intelligence
Learning through play literally builds brains. Policymakers and funding gatekeepers for state education programmes must understand this much better
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Finding Grandpapa Renfrew
Pam Jarvis goes in search of her Scottish Ancestors
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Hopefully new social media platforms will avoid Twitter and Facebook’s pitfalls
Part two of our 2023 Shape of Things to Come series asks, if social media really is eating itself, might...
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Who do you think you were? An ancestral selfie from Scotland
Pam Jarvis’s ancestry research took her on a long and magical journey that resulted in a much closer identification with...
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