As part of LGBT+ History Month, the EIS hosted a powerful evening of stories, socialising, and solidarity at the Glasgow Women’s Library. Marking almost 25 years since the repeal of Section 28/2A in Scotland – a clause brought in under the Local Government Act of 1988 prohibiting the promotion of homosexuality in schools – the […]

How we improve safety for women and girls in educational settings across Scotland is a good question and one that we need to answer urgently as a country because every day that we leave this unanswered, the risk to safety remains – and in some respects is intensifying – for the more than 80% of […]

Report from the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation conference on the rights of Palestinian children This was a powerful and emotionally challenging event. The organisers had taken a trauma-informed approach to the whole conference: speakers, especially those giving testimony of direct lived experience in Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs), were encouraged to pause, or […]