{"id":1787,"date":"2021-04-01T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/feb22\/dec2020\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2023-08-07T13:42:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T12:42:59","slug":"new-eis-president-and-vice-president-elected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/apr2021\/new-eis-president-and-vice-president-elected\/","title":{"rendered":"New EIS President and Vice-President Elected"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Following completion of the Council Elections, Heather Hughes has been announced as the next EIS President with Andrene Bamford confirmed as Vice-President. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heather Hughes is a secondary sciences teacher and the current Secretary of West Lothian EIS local association. Ms Hughes has been an EIS member for over 30 years, and is a long-time activist at local and national level. Ms Hughes is also a long-serving member of EIS Executive and Council, and has spent the past year serving as EIS Vice-President. Ms Hughes was elected unopposed as EIS President. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrene Bamford is a Principal Teacher of English and the current Secretary of East Dunbartonshire EIS local association. Ms Bamford has been an EIS member for 25 years, and a long-time activist. She has served on numerous EIS Committees and on Council and Executive for several years, and has been a frequent delegate to the EIS Annual General Meeting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both Ms Hughes and Ms Bamford will formally assume their new roles at the EIS AGM in June, when current President Carole Thorpe will move into the post of Ex-President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"658\" height=\"437\" src=\"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/apr2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/08\/pres1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/apr2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/08\/pres1-1.jpg 658w, https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/apr2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/08\/pres1-1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 658px) 100vw, 658px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/apr2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/08\/pres2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3437\" width=\"378\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/apr2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/08\/pres2.jpg 658w, https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/apr2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/08\/pres2-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following completion of the Council Elections, Heather Hughes has been announced as the next EIS President with Andrene Bamford confirmed as Vice-President. Heather Hughes is a secondary sciences teacher and the current Secretary of West Lothian EIS local association. Ms Hughes has been an EIS member for over 30 years, and is a long-time activist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/apr2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/apr2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/apr2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/apr2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/apr2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/apr2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3438,"href":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/apr2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions\/3438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/apr2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/apr2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/apr2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sej.org.uk\/apr2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}