Since devolution, spending on education in Scotland has doubled but standards have remained static

• 10,000 pupils a year leave school unable to read or write properly

• Every 10 minutes a member of staff is attacked in Scotland’s schools

• Every 90 seconds a pupil was excluded from Scotland’s schools

• There are nearly one thousand fewer teachers than in 2008

• 1 in 6 pupils leave school and can’t find a job, a training place or a university course

• £4.7 billion was spent on education in Scotland last year
  

• 10,000 children left Scottish schools unable to read or write properly
  

• Scottish pupils were ranked below the global average in Maths and Science

• 20,505 individual pupils were excluded in total from Scotland’s Schools

• Over one million days were lost due to truancy