Education

Highland Council is to get just over £1 million to support pupils from deprived backgrounds and help close the poverty-related attainment gap.

North Highland College UHI is hosting a week of online open days aimed at anyone looking to enter or return to further or higher education.

All eligible young people in Caithness are being encouraged to apply for a weekly, term time allowance of £30 per week from August.

Interest in amateur radio in Caithness has shot up since lockdown, according to a Wick enthusiast.

Lyth Arts Centre is getting creative with a new booklet despite facing a significant threat to its future through loss of income.

Groups of volunteers have been beavering away to keep on top of matters at a popular Caithness woodland.

It is still too early to set out finalised plans of what the return to school will look like, Highland Council’s education chairman has said.

Thurso councillors think their ward has lost out on a council plan to create new social distancing paths and cycleways.

University of the Highlands and Islands will begin its autumn term on the usual dates, with most higher education students starting on September 7.

Preparations are being made for schools to return in August area following the publication of the Scottish Government’s route map out of lockdown.

A new careers education programme has been created to support Scotland's teachers and pupils during the coronavirus crisis.

Families and carers in Caithness, Sutherland and Ross-shire are being offered a new way to play and learn together at home during the pandemic.

An online school poetry session during the coronavirus lockdown has inspired a Caithness parent to express her thoughts on the situation in verse.

Members of Thurso Boys' Brigade are to help local kids get creative and beat the lockdown blues with doorstep deliveries of Covid-19 craft packs.

The University of the Highlands and Islands has launched an emergency fund to help students who have been affected by the coronavirus crisis.

New guidance to support the home learning of children and young people during the new term has been issued by the Scottish Government.

A Latheronwheel mum is fighting on to have allergy care policy statutory in all schools and nurseries after her government petition was dismissed.

This week marks one year since the UK’s first Norwegian-style learning centres officially opened in the Highlands, with Thurso leading the way.

Wick High School sent out a message saying it is 'working hard to ensure that fair and appropriate estimates' are compiled for its pupils

With schools across the county closing their doors last week a home learning initiative has been rolled out to pupils.