Recent weeks have seen the agreement of pay settlements for both Scotland’s teachers and the country’s Further Education lecturers. While this year’s pay settlement for teachers was, once again, not delivered in time for the scheduled implementation date of the 1st of August, an agreement was reached in early September. In the FE sector, the […]
A pay deal has finally been reached in the Further Education sector, following a long dispute and a major programme of industrial action. Here, the SEJ looks back at some of the key events in the dispute, which finally saw college lecturers awarded a pay rise after two years of waiting. ASOS puts the pressure […]
Moira Hulme, Gary Beauchamp, Carole Bignell and Jeffrey Wood The teaching workforce in and beyond Europe is facing unprecedented challenges. Many European school systems are facing teacher shortages as recruitment targets are missed and the number of teachers leaving the profession before retirement increases. Challenging employment conditions in 2022 and 2023 saw industrial action by […]
Once again, the EIS has a compelling evidence base that demonstrates beyond all doubt and dispute that the workload of teachers is unfairly and unsustainably excessive. Our recently commissioned independent research shows that teachers are working on average 11 hours more than the 35 hours that they’re paid to work every week, and they’re doing […]
