BBC UK News6/9/2026Education4 min readUnited Kingdom
Scotland's Secondary Schools Face Teacher Shortage Crisis
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Scotland's secondary schools are reducing timetables and cutting subjects due to a shortage of specialist teachers, particularly in maths, science, design technology, and computing, with over 4,000 unfilled PGDE training spaces in the past nine years.
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Scotland faces a persistent shortage of specialist teachers, impacting curriculum offerings.
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Scotland's secondary schools are reducing timetables and cutting whole subjects from the curriculum due to a lack of specialist teachers... (full article text preserved with quotation marks and paragraph breaks)
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Implementation of a national action plan to address teacher shortages
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- What specific measures will the Scottish Government implement to address the shortage?
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This article was originally published by BBC UK News.
