Education Scotland

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What is Curriculum for Excellence?

A quick introduction to Scotland’s 3-18 curriculum with links to key documents.

Experiences and outcomes

Use the experiences and outcomes help plan learning and to assess progress across all curriculum areas.

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Latest News

15 March 2021

Schools are supporting the health and wellbeing of the education community during remote learning

A weekly national overview of how remote learning is being delivered in schools across Scotland.

04 March 2021

Learning and teaching in 2021 and beyond

A conversation with the Deputy First Minister, John Swinney, and Gayle Gorman, HM Chief Inspector of Education.

22 February 2021

Help Education Scotland – join our engagement panel

Join the Education Scotland User Panel to shape our Transformation Programme.

19 February 2021

Education Scotland awards Inverness College UHI over £11,000 to support teachers with embedding cyber security skills into the BGE curriculum

Education Scotland has awarded Inverness College UHI, part of the University of the Highlands and Islands, £11,600 to develop and deliver an online CPD module which will support up to 40 practitioners initially with teaching cyber security in the broad general education (BGE).

18 February 2021

Education Scotland funds Abertay University project to upskill Scottish computing teachers in ethical hacking

Education Scotland has awarded funding to Abertay University to develop an online module that will support secondary school computing teachers to deliver the ethical hacking unit of the National Progression Award (NPA) in cyber security.