Play by any other name Embracing The Play Principles Beyond the Early Years Every child has the fundamental right to play. It is in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Article 31, if you want to check). Not only is it important for enjoyment and fun, but vital for child development. […]
Welcome to SEJ Digital With AGM ahead, workload campaign steps up In this edition of the SEJ, we look ahead to the most important event on the EIS calendar – the Annual General Meeting (AGM), which will be held in Aviemore in the first week of June. The AGM is always a major event, not […]
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, […]
