As the country continues to make progress in overcoming the Covid pandemic, and as more and more of society begins to return to something approaching normal, the prospect of a programme of recovery must start to come into focus. The recent Scottish Parliament election was dominated by two issues. The first was the prospect of […]
May’s meeting of Council, the last of the academic year, looked ahead to the impending EIS Annual General Meeting scheduled for June. Last year, the decision was taken to hold the 2020 AGM online but in a significantly scaled-down format. This year, with technological solutions more readily available, EIS Executive had recommended a return to […]
This year marks the 175th EIS Annual General Meeting (AGM) and it will defi nitely be one to remember as the entire meeting, including debating of Motions, will be held completely online, due to the current restrictions in place as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Members will also be able to keep up to […]
In schools and colleges the length and breadth of the country, teachers and lecturers are straining hard to support young people through the final stages of their National Qualifications within what has become a very truncated timescale due to the most recent lockdown. There’s no doubt that what’s being faced at the moment in Secondary […]
As schools across the country closed to mark the International Workers’ May Day holiday, the EIS called for a renewed commitment from national and local government to ensure a safe and healthy working environment for pupils and teachers in the nation’s schools. As pupils have returned to in-school learning in recent months, the risk of […]
The EIS has suspended its programme of strike action at Forth Valley college to allow for a review of the dispute in the context of a national agreement struck only a matter of weeks ago. Lecturers at Forth Valley College have been taking strike action in protest at the downgrading of a number of lecturing […]
EIS Publishes new Report Highlighting the PACT Against PovertyThe EIS officially published the PACT project Phase 1 report in April as part of its continuing commitment to supporting anti-poverty professional learning for teachers across the country. The EIS PACT project, funded by the Scottish Government, was established to help teachers explore through professional learning the […]
Education was at the forefront in the recent Scottish election campaign, with all parties making supporting education recovery a key focus of their manifesto commitments. Here, the SEJ looks at the key issues that the newly elected Scottish Parliament must address. Although we still have some way to go in suppressing the coronavirus, it is […]
EIS Council recently resolved to examine differing approaches to combating Covid that have been adopted around the world. The aim was to explore the two main policy theories implemented to tackle the spread, and effect of Covid-19: Mitigation and Suppression Strategy, and Elimination (Zero Covid) Strategy, as well as drawing examples of how these policies […]
On Thursday 6th March, following a campaign that included five days of strike action at colleges across the country, EIS-FELA and Colleges Scotland formally ratified an agreement bringing an end to the national dispute over the replacement of lecturers with instructor/assessor type roles. Although instructor/assessor type roles have existed in the Further Education sector for […]
