Andrea Bradley: Last News

Schools across Scotland will close after last-ditch talks to avoid a teachers' strike ended without agreement.

A teaching union has secured £295,597 for members who were injured or assaulted at their workplace. The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) said all teachers and lecturers deserved to work in a safe place, and employers had to ensure all possible steps were taken to keep a safe working environment.

The Scottish Government has been accused of failing children by watering down plans for free school meals and leaving thousands hungry over Christmas.

Scots teachers will strike for another 16 days over pay and conditions, it has been announced.

Around 6000 teachers across Lanarkshire were on strike today over pay disputes.

Teachers across Scotland will walk out today in their first national strike over pay and conditions for almost 40 years.

Scotland's largest teaching union has rejected the Scottish Government's latest pay offer to avert strikes from taking place later this week, with one union boss describing it as "nothing less than an abject insult".

Scotland faces grinding to a halt this winter after teachers became the latest workers to vote for strikes yesterday - meaning they could soon join nurses and train drivers on picket lines.

West Lothian schools are set to close after teachers voted for strike action following a bitter pay dispute.

Lanarkshire schools are set to close after teachers voted for strike action following a bitter pay dispute.

Scotland's largest teachers' union has said a revised 3.5% pay offer is "profoundly disappointing", adding it is likely to ballot members on their willingness to take industrial action.

Nicola Sturgeon on March 2, the day before she appeared before the inquiry investigating the handling of harassment complaints against former first minister Alex Salmond.On BBC Scotland's Sunday Show, Andrea Bradley, the assistant secretary of the EIS teaching union, said the Scottish Government was looking for a "good news story that week".However, Ms Sturgeon had previously announced the earliest date for some pupils to return to school would be March 15.On Monday, Education Secretary John Swinney rejected the claim."There is precisely no connection between those two events," he told Good Morning Scotland."The government previously indicated that we would provide an update on the return to schooling on that particular Tuesday, that is