Education

The story of the role played by a pioneering Borders teacher in promoting racial integration in Scotland is being told again to mark this year’s Black History Month.

Parents of youngsters at Burgh Primary School in Galashiels have launched an appeal to raise £1 for every pupil it’s taught since opening almost a century and a half ago.

Gardening enthusiasts young and old in Earlston are celebrating after landing an £8,000-plus grant set to help them deliver both flower power and food for thought.

Council planners have approved plans to extend St Ronan’s Primary School in Innerleithen. 

More youngsters with learning difficulties will soon be making their way into the world of work, thanks to a £33,333 grant awarded to Brothers of Charity.

With teenaged swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg instilling an avid interest in global warming worldwide, kids are now, perhaps more than ever, interested in the vagaries of the weather.

Council chiefs in the Borders have been brought to book yet again for replacing paid school librarians with pupils and volunteers.

Having taken the summer to bask in the glory of exam success, Borders College students were reunited on Friday to make their achievements official at an annual graduation ceremony.

More than 160 graduates gathered at the Borders Events Centre in Kelso’s Springwood Park for this year’s Borders College graduation ceremony.

The weird and wonderful world of science was explored during a day of experiments and demonstrations in Melrose on Saturday.

More than 1,000 youngsters from across the region got to grips with all things scientific and environmental at St Mary’s School on Saturday.

Proud Teri Nick Bannerman has enjoyed a rare form of success in the world of business.

Pupils at Selkirk High School are the first in the region to be issued with new iPads as part of a near-£16m digital learning programme launched by Scottish Borders Council earlier this year.

Scottish Borders Council leader Shona Haslam has hit out at Holyrood ministers for failing to splash the cash on schools in the region.

Council chiefs have confirmed that three Borders primary schools shut for between three and seven years will never reopen.

Plans to close Jedburgh’s current library have run into opposition amid fears the service is being moved too far away from the town centre.