Professor Mark Priestley offers his views on the long-awaited Stobart report and explores what it means for reform of the Scottish qualifications system. T he end of August saw the long-awaited publication of Gordon Stobart’s comparative review of international qualifications systems. This report, written to complement the main OECD review of the Scottish Curriculum, published […]
On September 18th, 1847, around 600 teachers, from all parts of the country, attended a meeting in the Hall of the High School, Edinburgh, to give birth to the Educational Institute of Scotland. Although several local teacher associations predated this event, the creation of a national teacher union, the Educational Institute of Scotland, a global […]
Life’s Essentials from EIS Extra. Take advantage of these offers designed to support EIS members on the things that matter most. Whether you’re looking to save on your grocery shopping, on a new car, or on new tech, EIS Extra has an offer for you. How do I Start Saving? To make use of all […]
Oxford Reading Tree comes to life. Primary aged children can enjoy the adventure with Biff & Chip on CBeebies this autumn. Join the famous siblings Biff, Chip and Kipper for joyful adventures and plenty of laughs in new family-friendly CBeebies show, Biff & Chip. Based on the well-loved characters from the Oxford Reading Tree Books, […]
The EIS ‘Our Well-being Matters Programme’ was launched in February 2021, and explored various aspects of well-being from a range of perspectives, from creative writing, to human rights-based approaches. Here we highlight two areas that are as relevant to our well-being today as they have been over the past 18 months. For more on well-being […]
There can be no doubt that the pandemic, lockdown, and related measures have deepened existing inequalities in Scotland. Several leading voices on the equality front contributed to the EIS Equality Fringe in advance of the EIS AGM and highlighted the many ways in which pre-existing gaps have widened, significantly threatening our progress as a nation […]
In mid-June 2021 EIS-FELA overturned fire and re-hire at Forth Valley College and won a national agreement to ensure all who lecture in Scottish FE are on lecturers’ terms and conditions. The threat of replacement by so-called ‘instructors’ was not new but the situation changed when Forth Valley College management, using Covid as cover, fired […]
Members at the SRUC are embarking on a course of strike action. SRUC was formed in 2012 as part of Cabinet Secretary Michael Russell’s then sectoral merger plans. Unlike other institutions merged at that time, SRUC was a creation of institutions with different, and many argued incompatible, cultures and systems. At merger SRUC‘s constituent colleges […]
