News articles for 2022

As a council we are sometimes asked about the percentages of young people leaving school with five Highers. Head of Education Vincent Docherty has taken some time to explain why this is no longer a fair comparison of how well schools are doing.

30 May 2022

The 125th anniversary of author Bram Stoker's novel Dracula was marked at a civic reception held in the hotel where he wrote his classic books.

27 May 2022

Community engagement has begun on Aberdeenshire Council's £20 million bid to the UK Government's Levelling Up Fund.

27 May 2022

Aberdeenshire Council’s adoption and fostering teams are to have a stall at this year’s Grampian Pride event in Aberdeen on Saturday 28 May.

26 May 2022

Uryside School has become the first school in the UK to achieve stage five of the Garden Schools initiative project.

26 May 2022

Nine local projects aimed at improving communities and places across Aberdeenshire are to share around £1.9 million in new funding to help improve local facilities and town centres and to support regeneration activity

26 May 2022

Dales Park School is among ten schools in with a chance of winning a national singing competition.

24 May 2022

Hillside Primary School, near Portlethen, has become the first school in Scotland and the only primary school in the UK to be nominated for an 'Into Film' award. The school's submission was selected from among hundreds of UK entries and has been shortlisted in the Into Film Club of the Year category.

23 May 2022

The Fraserburgh 2021 Conservation Area Regeneration project has been announced as a finalist in a coveted national awards scheme.

20 May 2022

The first meeting of the new Full Council was held today, and at it the new leadership was confirmed.

19 May 2022