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Fighting Back

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 […]

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Standing Up Together

AGM 2025 Address – General Secretary Andrea Bradley We’re a union that takes every possible opportunity to push forward on the objectives that you as AGM delegates democratically determine and that means we barely stand still. We strive to contribute to the efforts of the wider trade union movement here in Scotland as part of […]

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Cabinet Secretary Q&A

What are you doing in practice to tackle the teacher workload crisis that you have previously described as ‘critical’? “Reducing class contact is absolutely critical. We have got to create the headspace for teachers to get to grips with all of this reform. I accept that we should have delivered the reduction in class contact […]

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Organisation Motions

EIS in-coming President, Adam Sutcliffe (Aberdeenshire), rousingly reaffirmed that the aims of the ‘Stand Up for Quality Education’ campaign are fundamental to improve teachers’ working conditions and health, safety and wellbeing at work and by so doing, the quality of learning experiences for pupils. He called on the AGM to continue to commit to the […]

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