By Pam Currie, member of the EIS LGBT Sub-Committee Switching to school teaching in 2019 after two decades in Further Education, I felt excited – ready for a change of direction – although a little trepidatious. After all, I left school in 1993 with no real idea of what I wanted to do, but a […]
Equality and social justice are at the heart of the trade union agenda. Recently, the EIS was invited to travel to Australia, as guests of the Australian Education Union. Andrene Bamford, National President, and Selma Augestad, National Officer (Equality) represented the EIS at three Australian conferences, expressing our international solidarity and learning from the experiences […]
As we await the outcome of Professor Louise Hayward’s Independent Review of Qualifications and Assessment, a significant piece of new educational research suggests that the pressure on Scottish secondary schools to improve exam attainment statistics is adversely affecting young people’s learning – and is actually widening the attainment gap. The report, Choice, Attainment and Positive […]
The EIS celebrated International Women’s Day this year by holding an event to reflect on our past and look to the future of women’s union activism. This year’s event for International Women’s Day provided an opportunity to consider and discuss how the EIS, and the wider trade union movement, can engage with, organise and ultimately […]
Oh dear – it’s difficult to know where to begin with Andy Maciver’s intemperate, inaccurate and ill-judged diatribe (in the Herald newspaper) against Scottish education in general and “teacher unions” specifically. Our schools face significant challenge in delivering equitable educational outcomes in a society which seemingly tolerates growing levels of economic inequality amongst its children, […]
The EIS, has joined with other TUs and education staff in the UK & Ireland, in calling on the Israeli Government to halt the demolition of Jubbet Ad-Dib School in the West Bank: As trade unions in the UK and Ireland representing educations workers in schools, colleges and universities, we are shocked and dismayed to […]
Following largescale pickets at schools in Dumfries and Galloway and the Scottish Borders a group of EIS members from across southern Scotland met with local MSPs at Holyrood on Wednesday 1st March. Labour MSPs Carol Mochan, Colin Smyth and Martin Whitfield were in attendance, as well as Conservative MSP Oliver Mundell, while Labour leader Anas […]
The 2022/2023 pay campaign was a long running campaign, that included the first national teacher strikes over pay in four decades. Here, the SEJ looks back at some of the key events in the campaign that eventually lead to a pay deal for Scotland’s teachers. Pay claim submitted The pay claim was submitted later than […]
EIS office bearers delivered a birthday card with a shocking green and pink cake on it to the offices of COSLA in Edinburgh on 7th February, the one-year anniversary of the 2022/2023 pay claim. The cake is one of a number of designs created by Dumfries and Galloway local Exec member Stephen Horne. Stephen, who […]
ACCEPT: 90% REJECT: 10% TURNOUT: 82% At last, it’s settled After more than a year, the pay campaign is finally over. Since early 2022, the EIS has been campaigning for a fair pay settlement for Scotland’s teachers. Now, after many long months of negotiations, campaigning and the first programme of national teacher strike action on […]
