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 […]

Anyone looking to count the challenges facing the Scottish education system wouldn’t have far to look for them and would need more than the fingers on two hands to count them all. EIS members in every sector are struggling to deliver quality education on bargain basement budgets due to successive years of political decision-making since […]

The SEJ rounds up some of the recent changes within the EIS staffing structure, with some new employees and some long-time employees in new roles. Look out for more new faces in upcoming editions of the SEJ Lewis Akers, Organiser I started my life as a trade unionist at 17 when I started working at […]

This year’s Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) annual meeting in Dundee’s Caird Hall was attended by the largest ever EIS delegation, led by President Allan Crosbie, who ensured throughout the three days of congress that the voice of the EIS was heard and that education issues were recognised. General Secretary Andrea Bradley moved an EIS […]