Education

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.

A Borders school is the first in the country to test out a reverse vending machine for the return of used plastic drinks bottles.

Pupils at Galashiels Academy have been tucking into award winning school dinners since their return to school last week.

Concerns over flooding and access roads at Jedburgh’s intergenerational community campus site were shared with contractors this week.

A series of window-smashing vandal attacks and thefts at a Borders school over the summer holidays have devastated staff, pupils and parents, it has emerged.

Senior school pupils opening their exam results on Tuesday have been commended for helping to paint a picture of consistent achievement across most subjects.

Charitable trust Live Borders has been given the job of managing community access to facilities at the new £22.5m Kelso High School.

A supermarket manager who makes videos of the Scottish Borders in his spare time has discovered the remarkable outline of the massive Roman fort at Trimontium, near Melrose, uncovered due to drought conditions.

Scottish Borders Council’s children and young persons’ service is spending £8.5m a year repaying historic debts generated by private-finance deals, latest figures reveal.

A retired teacher from the Borders has been rewarded for his lifelong contribution to education leadership and policy.