Exams are old fashioned and poor predictors of university success, education experts say

Covid-19 pandemic.Cases have soared in the wake of Christmas and New Year celebrations.The worrying stats called re-opening schools as planned into question.Nicola Sturgeon is set to announce new lockdown ­measures on Monday.On her agenda is a potential plan to shut schools for the next month.Schools in Scotland are due to return full-time on January 18 – but a rise in infections has prompted plans for a longer school shutdown.While some Scots think keeping kids in the classroom is all wrong,

Lockerbie bombing in 1988 – Scottish communities minister Malcolm Chisholm held a number of meetings with the Muslim community to discuss their concerns.

Glasgow today. Police were called to a property in Jura Street in the Govan area at around 9.20am this morning after receiving reports of the sudden death of the child.

Police have launched an appeal to trace a man who's been missing since Boxing Day. Dean Bryson was last seen on Black Street, Airdrie, Lanarkshire, at around 5.30pm on December 26.

house party in the early hours leaving five in hospital. Police were scrambled to Fernbank Street, Springburn, shortly before 6am on Monday.Paramedics were also called and two 15-year-old boys, together with three men, aged 23, 32 and 32, were taken to hospital for treatment.

Celtic this weekend. Despite Steven Gerrard 's side holding an impressive 16-point lead over rivals Celtic at the top of the Scottish Premiership the former Ibrox midfielder is having flashbacks to the 1998 title collapse.

coronavirus death since the start of the pandemic. The girl died somewhere in the country between December 14 and 21, according to new statistics from the National Records of Scotland.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Detectives are appealing for information after a 52-year-old man was seriously assaulted in a house in Motherwell.The incident happened around 11.50pm on Tuesday, December 22, in McClurg Court.He sustained serious head, neck and leg injuries and was taken to University Hospital Wishaw by the Scottish Ambulance Service where his condition is described as serious but stable.Officers are eager to speak to a

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.University Hospital Wishaw will feature in the BBC Scotland Christmas Celebration programme this year.Sally Magnusson, will, as ever, be presenting the show which will be aired on Christmas Eve.

A young girl has been left ‘shaken and distressed’ after a man exposed himself to her on a Dundee street. The shocking incident took place at around 6.30pm on Saturday, December 19 at the junction of Waverley Terrace and Dalkeith Road.

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investigating an alleged racist attack on an Edinburgh University student after he was jumped by a gang outside the main campus library. The 22-year-old posted shocking images showing injuries to his face and neck after he was allegedly ambushed by seven people last Friday evening.

Boris Johnson to think again on the plans that would allow three households to mix between 23rd and 27th December and allow people to travel the length of the UK.

Isle of Lewis. The nine-year-old was struck by a blue Toyota Yaris on Monday afternoon.

dog walker was shocked after finding a crisp packet dating back nearly 50 years on a beach.Tracey Radnall, 60, came across the plastic Golden Wonder ready salted crisps packet on Tyninghame Beach near Dunbar, East Lothian.She was walking her eight-year-old cocker spaniel Bertie on November 19 when she spotted the dated packaging on the sand near some rocks.The printing was quite weathered but Tracey, from Stenton, East Lothian, could make out “Golden Wonder Crisps” on the front and was shocked

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