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Faculty heads are set to replace specialist principal teachers while several violent incidents have been recorded since pupils returned after the Easter break.

Several violent incidents have been recorded since pupils returned after the Easter break last month.

Teachers are demanding free covid testing in schools continues after Easter holidays

Staff shortages due to increasing coronavirus cases have hit a number of schools across the region

Free access to Covid tests will end in West Lothian schools at the start of the new term. Teaching unions fear that some young people or families will not be able to afford the £20 cost.

A teaching union says it expects huge numbers of appeals on results as pupils get ready for their first sit down National and Higher exams in two years.

The EIS said local authorities have had to keep schools open even when hundreds of children and numerous staff members have been off with Covid.

The EIS found almost half of teachers have considered leaving the profession.

Scientific advisers to UNESCO have delivered a scathing assessment of the NSW government's plans to raise Warragamba dam, prompting fears that the Blue Mountains could lose its World Heritage status if the project proceeds.