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 […]