The Dispute The dispute was called by the Teachers’ Side of the SNCT for two reasons: Significance of the EIS Ballot Result Over the month of February and early March, it was clear to EIS negotiators that the Scottish Government and COSLA were not really negotiating. They were waiting to see what the outcome of […]

As we highlighted in the previous edition of the SEJ, the EIS recently published its education manifesto for next month’s Scottish Parliament election. While the running of schools is devolved to local authority level, the Scottish Parliament and Scottish Government play a key role in shaping education policy at a national level. With this in […]

The tragedy which occurred at Dunblane primary school on 13th March 1996, when 16 young children and their teacher were murdered, and many others wounded, remains firmly embedded in Scotland’s collective memory. While the Dunblane community has taken great pains to move on from the horror of that day, the victims of the tragedy cannot […]

Last year when Fife Council threatened to cut education budgets the local association of the EIS organised a public meeting to question councillors on the issue. We spent a lot of time advertising the event and contacting parents’ organisations but we were still anxious before the doors opened that anyone would turn up. We needn’t […]