Teachers and the Scottish government have started the 2013/14 session on a fractious note with the biggest union demanding an urgent injection of £3 million for up-to-date textbooks to support the new National qualifications.
The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) said the extra money was needed because secondary schools lacked suitable classroom materials for National 4 and National 5 exams, which pupils will sit next summer for the first time in place of Standard grades.
Larry Flanagan, EIS general secretary, told SecEd he had written to Mike Russell, the education secretary, to make the case and offering to scope the level of demand among local authorities.
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