Education

Aberdeenshire Council has set its budget for the year ahead which will see cuts to services and staff but winter gritting saved.

Robert Gordon University and Denis Law Legacy Trust have launched a new award to recognise those making a positive impact through volunteering.

Aberdeenshire East MSP Gillian Martin has criticised Aberdeenshire Council’s plans to scrap vital services in the north-east.

Cyclist Kate Rawles will be journeying to Aberdeen, to speak for the Royal Scottish Geographical Society’s Inspiring People talks programme.

Officers in Aberdeenshire are seeking your views on primary school education within the Turriff, Banff and Westhill clusters.

The overall funding for students in Scotland will now have a 12 payment option at a lower monthly rate as well as the existing nine month package.

Primary schools including Cultercullen, Keithhall and Fordyce are set to mark landmark dates this year and are reaching out to former pupils.

THE future of schools in the Buckie area is to take centre stage at two forthcoming drop-in sessions.

More than 2000 support staff are to strike later this month in a row over pay and jobs.

In his latest column, MP Richard Thomson has shared his worries over the decision to end out-of-school care in Aberdeenshire.

Comparing the opportunities that a tiny 28-pupil school can provide with what can be offered in a city school, isn’t comparing like with like.

The Striking Impressions exhibitions looks at how faces have been interpreted and depicted in different ways through the centuries.

STEM charity TechFest is launching a new programme aimed at helping north-east secondary school pupils discover their innovative side.

Meldrum Academy and Laurencekirk Primary School have been awarded a share of £200,000 to support progressive equality and inclusion projects.

MSP Gillian Martin has said in her latest column that she will continue to raise concerns about closing out-of-school care provision.

MSP Gillian Martin has written to the local authority after it announced plans to close provided out-of-school care by July this year.

The cox for the University of Aberdeen will be Jakub Zbikowski, and Jill Adam will lead the Robert Gordon University crew.

A north-east museum which has been a staple of school trips for more than half a century and which features in the film Tetris is offering free tours.

READ all about it! – that is the aim of a group of pupils in Fochabers aiming to bring a new newspaper to the village.

A North East MSP has raised concerns that high workloads and classroom violence are causing teachers to quit the profession.