The Employment Rights Act—passed in December 2025 and implemented throughout 2026 and into 2027—marks the most significant change in UK Employment law in decades, both introducing new and improved rights and reversing many of the statutory restrictions on trade union activity introduced in recent decades. The Act strengthens collective voice, expands protections for millions of […]
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 […]
This year’s TUC Congress was attended by twelve EIS delegates, each of them there to represent the EIS and our members on a range of issues from within the education sector and our society as a whole. At the heart of this year’s proceedings was the TUC’s Unity Works campaign, built on the conviction that […]
The National Youth Choir of Scotland (NYCOS) is marking its 30th anniversary by launching an ambitious initiative designed to help bring singing back into classrooms across the country. Launching in schools from September, NYCOS Singing Time is a free online resource that will be gifted to every primary school in Scotland, providing teachers with accessible, […]
