Children attending school in the constituencies of key politicians, including Scotland's first minister, will face an extra six days of strikes as the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) escalates industrial action in a dispute over pay. By Lucinda Cameron, The Independent.

The School Teachers' Review Body (STRB) has set a new deadline of 22 March for submissions of written evidence to the independent pay review body. The new timetable has been drawn up after the Department for Education missed the deadline for submitting evidence last month. By Matilda Martin, Tes.

Matt Jukes, the head of counterterrorism policing, has revealed that several school massacre plots inspired by attacks in the US have been foiled in Britain in recent years. Mr Jukes also warned that investigators are finding an increasing amount of material glorifying school shootings shared by young people online. By Jack Hardy, The Telegraph.

The Scottish Government has been urged to review last year's exam appeals system, after it emerged that in some schools fewer than 10 per cent of appeals were accepted by the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) while in others up to 70 per cent were successful. By James McEnaney, The Herald.

In an interview for The Telegraph's Planet Normal podcast, author and journalist Peter Hitchens condemned the decision to scrap grammar schools in favour of the comprehensive system, claiming "hundreds of thousands" of young people will never reach their full potential as a result. By Allison Pearson, Liam Halligan, Zoe Hitch and Isabelle Bougeard.

Professor Andy Long, the vice-chancellor and chief executive of Northumbria University, writes in The Times arguing that universities need to 'do more' for social mobility to continue to command public confidence and funding.

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