Education

HIGHLAND solicitors and estate agents Innes and Mackay have sponsored a local school football team’s new uniforms.

A SHORTAGE of supply teachers could see the closure situation which hit Nairn Academy rear its head again at any time, according to a union.

DEDICATED pupils at an Inverness secondary school found themselves on the right track after embarking on an ambitious engineering project.

A SICKNESS hit school will reopen to ALL pupils tomorrow, Highland Council has confirmed – contradicting earlier messages to parents

PUPILS at a Highland school have been sent home for a second day after 15 members of school staff phoned in sick.

PUPILS at a Nairn school have been sent home after an unprecedented number of teachers phoned in sick this morning.

PUPILS took control at an Inverness school as they celebrated World Children’s Day.

A PIONEERING project which aims to encourage more youngsters to read has been launched at The Gaelic School – Bun-sgoil Ghaidhlig – in Inverness.

EIGHT autistic children from the Inverness area are benefiting from two grants from the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE) diamond fund.

EFFORTS to provide emergency life support to all Highland pupils were highlighted at a council meeting yesterday.

Local councillors are keen to make sure Nairn Academy is on a list for the next round of Scottish Government funding for new schools.

A RECORD number of school pupils have taken part in a competition which encourages them to develop their culinary skills.

THREE teenagers were trapped in a lift for six-and-a-half hours after their landlord refused to allow firefighters to cut them free.

An audience of 100 people will join a free public lecture with a professor of sociology and rural studies in Inverness today.

Young people from the Highlands tuned into potential career opportunities in the music industry at a special event at the Ironworks in Inverness.

Culinary whizzes from local schools are set to put their skills to the test when the annual Schools Masterchef competition final takes place tonight.

The University of the Highlands and Islands will offer a new optometry programme to help meet north demand.

A community is in shock after a rabbit was discovered in school grounds having died after being shot – apparently by someone using a crossbow.

Conservative MSP Edward Mountain says Nairn Academy, Culloden Academy and Charleston Scademy are not fit for purpose.

Highland Council says the region continues to have one of the highest levels of resource allocated to ASN in the country, even after cuts this year.