May’s meeting of EIS Council was the scene for a significant discussion over the potential for a consultative ballot for industrial action over the failure to deliver the Scottish Government’s commitment to reduce teachers’ maximum class contact time to 21 hours per week. With four years having now passed since the commitment was made ahead […]
Lecturing staff at Robert Gordon University (RGU) have begun a campaign of strike action in a determined effort to protect jobs, stand up for quality education and oppose compulsory redundancies. Members of the EIS-ULA have taken to picket lines on the university campus on three days of strike action thus far, signalling a significant escalation […]
The excellence of school instrumental music tuition in Scotland shone through at the recent Tartan Day festivities in New York. Tartan Day was established to promote Scotland across the world, and to celebrate links between Scotland and other countries. New York Tartan Week is one of the largest international celebrations of Scottish culture and heritage, […]
This year marks the 179th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the EIS which will be held in Aviemore on the 5th – 7th June. The theme for this year’s event will be Stand up for Quality Education, where we will celebrate and highlight the many ways the EIS has been standing up for Scottish education, […]
Professor Louise Hayward, University of Glasgow and Professor John McKendrick, Glasgow Caledonian University, will be honoured at this year’s AGM with EIS Fellowships for their sterling services to Scottish education, equality and social justice. Here, they offer their perspectives on Scottish education, its many successes, and the significant challenges that it continues to face. Building […]
General Secretary Andrea Bradley was a delegate to the recent ISTP Conference in Iceland, and reports here for the SEJ. For the first time in three years, Scotland was able to have a proper seat at the table of the 15th annual International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP), this year hosted by Iceland and […]
The SEJ joined a tour at historic Doune Castle, near Stirling, led by P7 pupils from Doune Primary School. The school works with Historic Scotland and Illuminate UK to train pupils to lead interactive tours as part of the Junior Tour Guide programme. Doune Castle is a striking medieval stronghold, sitting in woodland around 8 […]
In the twelve months since the last FELA conference there have been hard fought victories across our movement, not least a four year pay settlement for college lecturers. The 2025 FELA conference was a chance to recognise some of those wins and to look ahead and set out key campaigning objectives for the year ahead. […]
Rethinking Growth: A new vision and solidarity at the ULA annual conference The recent ULA Annual Conference brought together voices of our membership from across Scotland’s higher education sector, with guest speakers Allan Crosbie the EIS President, Dr Kai Heron of the degrowth movement and Naomi Mason from the Center for Local Economic Strategies (CLES). […]
There have long been murmurings of a full merger of the ten UHI colleges. In September last year these “murmurings” started to become more real. Staff were advised, via the UHI Transformation SharePoint site, that the “UHI has announced plans to explore a transformative new operating model designed to enhance the university’s ability to deliver […]
