Education

Dunbeath Heritage Museum will be hosting a special craft night and raising funds for the local primary school next week.

New figures show the north is behind the national average in 13 out of 15 areas.

The youngest pupils at a Thurso school have helped put together more than 150 filled shoeboxes for an annual appeal.

In common with many other schools across the Highlands recently Keiss Primary and Nursery also marked Remembrance Day.

A Keiss-based artist has a book-themed solo show at Thurso Art Gallery called ‘War Horse and Other Stories’ fittingly within the town’s library.

School staff in the Highlands are suffering an average of almost eight physical or verbal assaults every day, official figures have revealed.

Community Land Scotland chairwoman Ailsa Raeburn warns ‘availability of homes now at crisis level’.

Wick Academy manager Gary Manson heard about Noss primary’s bid to be recognised for its sporting endeavours when he paid a visit to the school.

Victoria Erasmus will take the chair for UHI Inverness in 2025, while Eilidh Kennedy McLean MBE will take up her position for UHI Moray in December.

The annual competition is open to all University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) students and anyone over 16 living in the Highlands.

Tickets are now on sale for the playful new production of Scottish Opera’s Opera Highlights, which comes to Thurso High School in March next year.

Pupils at Thurso High School raised more than £1200 for Macmillan at a coffee afternoon held earlier in the autumn.

Poppies made by woodwork students at Wick High School will be on display during this weekend’s remembrance events in the town.

Bower Primary School’s growing project has been hailed as “an exciting learning curve” by the head teacher following the installation of a Polycrub.

Pupils at Bower Primary School have been busy on a range of activities – from creating a construction site to visiting Wick’s airport fire service.

The director of Thurso’s Environmental Research Institute, Professor Stuart Gibb, has taken on a new role as part of a United Nations initiative.

Five more school leavers from Caithness and north Sutherland have been awarded scholarships from the Pentland Floating Offshore Wind Farm.

The Caithness Book Festival saw authors travel from near and far to take part in the event at its new venue of Murkle Hall.

A dozen youngsters proved an asset to the far north after taking part in a confidence-building weekend in the Cairngorms.

Museums from across the Highlands have collaborated to a new digital 3D scanning project in a bid to capture historical artefacts.