Exploring Learning for Sustainability in the GTCS Standards Dominic ShaikhEIS Learning Rep, Edinburgh LfS or ‘Learning for Sustainability’ provides the knowledge, skills and understanding for us to engage with and participate in the rapidly changing and increasingly complex world around us. Put simply, it is about learning to make the world a better place for… Read more: Learning for Sustainability

Covid Embattled but 175 Years Strong As the oldest teacher trade union in the world, the EIS has faced massive tests of its strength and resilience throughout its 175-year history. The capacity of Covid to shake the foundations of education to their very core – not only in Scotland but worldwide – could have been… Read more: EIS & Covid

BEAT THE BIAS Glasgow EIS, in conjunction with Glasgow City Council, have celebrated IWD with pupils from Glasgow schools for the last 4 years. Covid-19 has meant that we have had to take a different approach to these celebrations on 8th March 2022. Primary and ASN schools will receive books for their school libraries which… Read more: International Women’s Day

The EIS remains deeply concerned that large numbers of children and young people are underfed and undernourished as a result of poverty at home and of the insufficiency of social security measures to prevent this. The Covid 19 pandemic has significantly exacerbated pre-existing societal inequalities and intensified austerity-induced poverty and deprivation. The economic shocks of… Read more: Hunger and Food Insecurity