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Higher education in Scotland will remain free after the Scottish government elections in May—whoever wins.

Industrial action came a step closer today, Tuesday, as Scotland’s biggest teachers’ union announced that it would ballot its members over proposals to impose a two-year pay freeze and changes to working conditions.

Lecturers are voting to elect representatives to national officer positions in the UCU and to the union’s national executive committee (NEC) and Scottish executive committee (SEC).

The leader of Renfrewshire Council in Scotland says he will suspend plans to replace teachers with unqualified part-time staff in primary schools.

An alliance of Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World and the police means that Scottish socialist Tommy Sheridan was sentenced to three years in jail last week.

"Scottish justice has notched up another political miscarriage of justice alongside that of Al Megrahi and Muir of Huntershill"

Former Respect and Labour MP George Galloway has announced that he will stand on the Glasgow regional list in May’s election to the Scottish parliament.

National Union of Journalist members at the Scottish titles The Herald and Evening Times have voted by 79 percent in favour of strikes to defend jobs.

Nearly 70 delegates from further education colleges in Scotland shrugged off the snow and met in Glasgow at an emergency EIS conference over the cuts last week.

Around 60 supporters of Alfie Meadows protested outside Scotland Yard on Tuesday to tell Met police to end kettling and violence towards protesters.

Remember Sir "Fred the Shred" Goodwin, the banker who brought the Royal Bank of Scotland to its knees?

In Scotland, the chances of coordinated strikes across the public sector have taken a significant step forward.