Education

Scottish Borders Council has accepted recommendations from education chiefs to prioritise Galashiels as the next town to receive a new high school.

Scottish Borders Council has accepted recommendations from education chiefs to prioritise Galashiels as the next town to receive a new high school.

Galashiels is in line to be the next town in the Borders to get a new school, probably an inter-generational campus, following on from Kelso and Jedburgh.

Councillors in Hawick are showing a united front in support of calls by a Borders MP and MSP for the town to be the next in the region to get a new high school.

With men’s sheds now commonplace and gaining popularity throughout the Borders, a new development officer has been appointed to promote the movement.

A row is on the cards between rival politicians over concerns voiced about their Christmas competitions.

Plans are being drawn up to convert Kelso’s old high school into an extra care housing development for the elderly.

A unique project pulling together textile skills and commemorating the centenary of the First World War ending has been created in Hawick.

A Borders nursery has failed to reopen following the October break after a fundraising drive to raise £5,000 and secure its future fell short.

For a lad who says he was “interested in cars since he could pick up a toy one”, there was really only one career to choose.

Borders College students had their day in the limelight earlier today as they graduated in front of family, friends, college staff and local rugby legend Doddie Weir.

Over 1,000 science fans from across the Borders donned their lab coats and safety specs and headed for Melrose on Saturday for the Bang Goes the Borders science festival.

Nobody can deny that Scottish rugby hero Doddie Weir is a jolly good fellow, and bosses at Borders College aren’t about to try.

The director for children and young people at Scottish Borders Council is off to pastures new after landing the top job in Inverness.

Some say your schooldays are the best days of your life – and the memories of almost 150 former and current Kelso High School pupils, gathered together in a book about its old Bowmont Street home, appear to back up that theory.

More youngsters than ever before are getting to grips with gardening in Peebles, thanks to a funding boost of almost £10,000.

A Scottish Government policy to double free childcare provision has put a strain on a Borders nursery piloting the scheme.

A Borders nursery is facing closure by the end of the month unless it can raise £5,000 in the next two weeks.

Hawick High School is now a safe place for pupils and staff, according to Scottish Borders Council leader Shona Haslam.