November’s meeting of EIS Council was the last for Assistant Secretary Louise Wilson, who is leaving the EIS later this month. Numerous Council members took the opportunity to thank Louise for her decades of dedicated service to the EIS – as an activist, as a National Officer and, finally, as an Assistant Secretary of the […]
As the SEJ goes to print, EIS-FELA remain in dispute nationally over fair pay and job security and members across Scotland’s colleges are currently being balloted yet again, for both strike action and action short of strike. The EIS-FELA Executive has strongly recommended that members vote YES to both ASOS and strike action and secure […]
In October of 1986, I was heading off to university to begin my degree in English Literature. Part of the soundtrack to that period in my life was Billy Bragg’s just-released album Talking to the Taxman about Poetry. I could never have imagined that, 37 years later, I’d find myself talking to the ‘Poets of […]
