EIS President Speech – Paul McEwan Outgoing President Paula McEwan pledged to continue fighting the good fight in her AGM speech. I’m sure every President must stand here and say, ‘What a year!’ and I’m sure that for every one of them it will have been true for their time and for their circumstance. I […]
Sinéad McBrearty, Chief Executive of mental health and wellbeing charity Education support, spoke to AGM on Saturday and delivered a humorous, and very well received, presentation. “There is no one solution to the challenge of teacher health and wellbeing. There just isn’t enough money in education to do everything that teachers are supposed to achieve […]
General Secretary Andrea Bradley’s AGM report focused on the power of collective action. Solidarity is the superpower that trade unions and trade unionists rely on to get us through the darkest of days and out the other side with the wins on pay and conditions that shine on and that sustain us for years and […]
Independent academic research on teacher workload, commissioned by the EIS and published on the opening day of the EIS AGM has provided yet more stark evidence that teachers in Scotland continue to work well beyond their contracted hours and that the number of working hours per week is rising. The research was carried out over […]
