By the time that this SEJ reaches members, the new General Secretary of the EIS will have been selected. A special meeting of EIS Council, set to be held the week after this SEJ went to print, will have interviewed the final candidates and agreed a preferred candidate to succeed Larry Flanagan in the summer. […]
May EIS Council The final meeting of EIS Council for this academic year was the first in-person meeting in more than two years and largely centred on the issue of pay. With the pay claim for 2021-2022 having been settled at long last, more than a year late, the focus has now shifted to the […]
Secondary teachers in Dundee are set to take strike action in protest at the council’s faculty proposals which would remove subject specialist Principal Teachers from the authority’s Secondary schools. The first day of strike action is scheduled to take place on the 22nd of June across all of Dundee’s Secondary schools. EIS Secondary members in […]
Heather Hughes, presiding over her final Council meeting as EIS President, thanked all those members who would not be returning to Council next session. Ms Hughes also paid tribute to General Secretary Larry Flanagan, for whom this was the final Council meeting before he leaves his post in the summer. See focus on pp10-11 for […]
The EIS has written to Western Isles Council to demand that the authority desist from misrepresenting the union’s position on remote learning in an apparent attempt to justify the council’s proposals to reduce teacher involvement in online learning provision. The EIS has previously raised serious concerns about the proposals from Western Isles Council, and remains […]
ETUCE recently undertook a solidarity mission to Poland to witness the work being carried out by Polish teacher unions in support of Ukrainian refugees and their families. Poland has largely opened its borders to those fleeing the war and exceptional work has been carried out by the state, civic society, and the teacher trade unions […]
As part of the celebrations to mark the 175th Anniversary of the foundation of the EIS, a new book has been commissioned exploring the history of the Institute. Written by long-time Times Educational Supplement journalist Adi Bloom, the book will be premiered at the EIS Annual General Meeting in June and published shortly afterwards. Here, […]
EIS General Secretary Larry Flanagan will stand down from his post in the summer, following a decade as the Institute’s top official. Here, Larry explains his decision to move on and outlines what he will be doing in the future. Larry Flanagan – His EIS history Larry Flanagan was selected as General Secretary of the […]
With college employers failing to return to the negotiating table with a fair pay offer, EIS-FELA members across Scotland’s 26 colleges are continuing their campaign of industrial action to secure the pay award that they deserve. As the SEJ goes to print, EIS-FELA members have already taken five days of strike action, alongside action short […]
The Annual General Meeting (AGM) is the main decision-making body of the EIS. AGM instructs Council, which in turn instructs the Committees of the Council. Approximately 350 EIS members – including Office Bearers, Council members and Delegates from Local Associations and Self-Governing Associations (EIS-FELA and EIS-ULA) are eligible to attend and vote at the AGM. […]
