As the sovereign body of the EIS, the Annual General Meeting is always one of the key events of the educational calendar. This year, the event was in even sharper focus with the launch of a consultative industrial action ballot over teacher workload. With more than four years having now passed since the current Scottish […]
Nae Pasaran! EIS President Allan Crosbie addressed delegates at AGM There is a lovely film I watched with my family recently called The Half of It. In one scene, a teenager’s English teacher is trying to persuade her not to go on to the local State college, but instead to go somewhere Ivy League. There […]
EIS Education Vice-Convener Colin Finlay (Falkirk and Council) argued on behalf of Council that successful education reform “must be underpinned by teacher professionalism, voice and agency.” Referencing the formation of new national education bodies, Mr Finlay stressed the imperative for “the representative voice of teachers to be hard-wired into the governance of our national bodies […]
