When the EIS launched the Stand up for Quality Education (SUFQE) campaign some three years ago, there was a clear recognition that it would be a long-term project. The campaign is focused on some major demands, which are key to delivering a better education system and an enhanced learning and teaching environment for staff and […]
Has the Scottish Government Really learned the lessons of past reform? In her first formal ministerial statement to Parliament as Cabinet Secretary for Education, Culture and Gaelic on 2nd September, Mairi McAllan described Scotland’s Curriculum Improvement Cycle (CIC) as “the largest-ever reform to Curriculum for Excellence.” Scotland’s teachers might view the prospect of further large-scale […]
In the current context of threats to democracy and far right forces seeking to erode the decades of progress won on gender-equality and civil rights, it is no surprise that this inspiring conference title led over 300 women from education trade unions across 55 countries to travel to Bahia, Brazil for the 5th Educational International […]
Risk assessments are a tool to help identify anything that could cause harm at work (eg an icy playground in the winter, a young person with a history of violent behaviour or using a Bunsen burner in a science classroom); considering how likely that harm is to happen and how serious it could be, and […]
Over the past decade, national bargaining has secured significant improvements to pay, terms and conditions for college lecturers across Scotland. Through sustained negotiation and collective action, EIS-FELA Reps, supported by various National Officers and other EIS staff, have negotiated pay settlements and delivered national terms and conditions of employment. In 2025/26 work was done to […]
What does it take to deliver high-quality college education? It takes skilled and committed lecturers, of course. But it also takes something that is becoming increasingly difficult to find in Education: time and space to do the job properly. Across the College sector lecturers are dealing with increasingly complex student needs, demanding assessment requirements, new […]
Members of the EIS ULA at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) have escalated their strike action, seeking to protect members from compulsory redundancy after ACAS talks failed to reach a suitable dispute resolution. Starting on Monday 21st September, staff were scheduled to take 14 days of strike action over a four week period to protect jobs […]
The recent furore surrounding the PISA rankings will have been background noise for most teachers. Politicians and the media home in on “the league tables” as if our children’s education is a spectator sport. Headlines decry falling standards and demand we get “back to basics”. This might provide political capital for some. But it undermines […]
Norma Anne Watson, who passed away in May, was a long-time EIS member and prominent campaigner for Scottish education. Trained as a primary teacher, Norma Anne developed a specialist interest in Early Years education. Norma Anne lived and worked in West Lothian, and spent a major part of her teaching career as Headteacher of Kirkhill […]
