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Crossword
A copy of the crossword can be found here. To be in with a chance of winning, send your completed entry to SEJ, 46 Moray Place, Edinburgh, or email a copy of your completed crossword to the SEJ email address at sej@eis.org.uk
Fighting for fair pay in FE National dispute – pay and jobs
EIS-FELA members across Scotland should have received a fair pay award over one year ago. The latest pay offer from College Employers Scotland falls below what is acceptable and would be funded by job losses across the public further education sector, including up to 400 lecturing posts lost. EIS-FELA is very clear that we will […]
Back to work, back to campaigning
As EIS Council members gathered in Edinburgh for the first time this session, the focus was on building the recently-launched campaign Stand Up for Quality Education. Recent reports of increases in the number of incidences of serious pupil disruption and violence in schools were on everyone’s mind, as plans for the first phase of the […]
Local Disputes Continue
As lecturers across Scotland take national industrial action to secure fair pay and protect jobs, lecturers at two colleges are also engaged in local action to defend jobs. At City of Glasgow College, EIS-FELA members are continuing strike action in a dispute over cuts to teaching time, increases in workload, the ending of fixed term […]
Hutchesons’ Grammar Dispute Settled, Strike Action to Cease
Following four days of strike action at Hutchesons’ Grammar School, the dispute at the school is now settled on the basis of a 7-point agreement. The dispute began in January with the School’s proposal to withdraw teaching staff from the Scottish Teachers’ Pension Scheme and has been resolved through more beneficial changes to other terms […]
EIS Calls on First Minister to Act on Under-Employment of Teachers Across Scotland
The EIS has written to First Minister Humza Yousaf calling for action on the lack of job security for many newly and recently qualified teachers across Scotland. In recent years, Scottish local authorities have increasingly appointed new teachers on short-term temporary contracts, offering little job security for new entrants to the teaching profession. In the […]
Teachers critical of Scottish Government for lack of progress in implementing manifesto commitment on class contact time reduction
The SNCT Teachers’ Panel, made up of trade unions representing Scotland’s teachers, has strongly criticised the Scottish Government for the severe lack of progress in delivering the SNP 2021 Manifesto commitment to reduce teachers’ class contact time by 90 minutes per week, to 21 hours. Two and a half years since the manifesto pledge was […]