The May meeting of EIS Council, the final one of this session, was a relatively low-key affair in comparison to recent meetings. Council looked back at the long-running Pay Attention campaign and ahead to the EIS’s next campaign priorities for the year ahead. With the Annual General Meeting set to take place in early June, […]
Let My Friends Learn, suitable for all students aged 7-18 The Educational Institute of Scotland is a member of the Send My Friend to School coalition, who campaign to demand a quality and inclusive education for all children across the globe. This year’s schools’ campaign teaches young people how to use their voices to raise […]
The 2023 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the EIS will be held in Aviemore for the very first time. Taking place at the Macdonald Aviemore Resort from Thursday 8th June to Saturday 10th June, the theme for this year’s event will be “Stronger for Sound Education.” This will also be the very first AGM with […]
Survey findings on the cost of living crisis During 2022 RPI inflation rose to 19.9%, a 40-year high, which saw workers across Scotland struggling to make ends meet. Whilst this inflation was not attributed to wage rises, as real wages within the UK have been steadily falling for more than a decade, workers were none-the-less […]
David Baxter, Dundee LA Secretary and Convener of the EIS Employment Relations Committee, makes the case for guidance teachers within the primary sector. Scottish education is highly regarded worldwide for its progressive approach to teaching and learning. However, despite the many strengths of the Scottish education system, there are still areas that require improvement, and […]
The 126th STUC Annual Conference opened on Monday 17th April 2023 in Dundee Chaired by President Pauline Rourke. There was a strong EIS delegation this year which included EIS President and delegation leader Andrene Bamford. There was a packed three-day agenda where delegates debated over 100 motions and emergency motions, and the EIS delegation made […]
The EIS has a commitment to high standards of education, rooted in rights, equality and inclusivity. The EIS’s overarching position is the principle that young people have the right to learn, and teachers and lecturers have the right to work, in an educational environment that is free from discrimination, where the rights of all are […]
With summer approaching and school trips on the horizon, many of us will be preparing to hear the repeated cries of ‘Are we there yet?’. And with the raft of consultation documents emanating from proposals for Education Reform, we might be forgiven for asking the same question ourselves. The recommendations made in the OECD Report […]
Left with no option, following months of frustrating negotiations, EIS-FELA members, across Scotland’s 26 Further Education colleges, began a campaign of action short of strike (ASOS) in pursuit of a fair pay award. College lecturers should have received their 2022/23 pay rise in September 2022. The EIS-FELA lodged a claim for a £5000 consolidated salary […]
