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02 March 2021

Protect Education - Email the First Minister Update

The EIS has written to the FM and DFM as well as the leaders  of all the political  parties to press  home the message around vaccinating education staff.


26 February 2021

Protect Education - Email the First Minister

The EIS Executive decided at its last meeting to launch a mass member lobbying campaign aimed at elected political representatives at all levels


24 February 2021

General Secretary Covid Update: 12 Feb 2021

Coronavirus update including Schools phased reopening, testing, vaccination, SQA, supply teachers and international data.


24 February 2021

General Secretary Covid Update: 13 Jan 2021

This update covers lockdown, remote learning, CERG guidance, ASN, SQA, 1000 woman's voices during covid.


27 October 2020

Message from the General Secretary 27 October

Following on from the EIS Strategy Sub-Committee meeting yesterday, a letter has been sent to all the Education Spokespersons of the political parties, including the DFM, ahead of today's parliamentary consideration of the proposed Strategic Framework.


01 March 2021

General Secretary Update 19 August 2020

An update from the General Secretary Larry Flanagan about education during pandemic.


01 March 2021

General Secretary Update 13 August

An update from EIS General Secretary Larry Flanagan on 13th August.


01 March 2021

Update from General Secretary 10 August

As schools reopen it is essential that updated risk assessments have been carried out by the employer and that staff and teacher trade unions are fully consulted on their content.


01 March 2021

General Secretary Update 03 August 2020

I am writing to provide an update from the EIS Executive which met on Friday to consider the First Minister's announcement in Parliament.


02 September 2020

General Secretary Update 30 July 2020

The Scottish Government has announced the go ahead for schools to reopen fully from August 11th.


01 March 2021

General Secretary Update 16 July 2020

The Scottish Government has published two reports from the SAGE sub-committee on schools.


02 September 2020

General Secretary Update 26 June

General Secretary Update 26 June 2020


02 September 2020

General Secretary Update 24 June

Yesterday’s statement in the Scottish Parliament by the Deputy First Minister (which can be read here) has sparked considerable debate, anxiety, frustration, confusion and even anger amongst many members.


02 September 2020

General Secretary Update 5 June 2020

The latest update from the union


01 March 2021

Update from the General Secretary 29 May 2020

Following on from yesterday’s ebulletin, please find here a link to the Guidance from the Scottish Government, issued in support of its Strategic Framework.


04 February 2021

EIS Update 28 May 2020

An EIS update


01 March 2021

EIS Update on 22 May 2020

The latest information on the developments surrounding the Coronavirus pandemic.


02 September 2020

Letter from the General Secretary on the Reopening of Schools

A message from the General Secretary regarding the First Minister's statement on plans to reopen schools.


01 March 2021

General Secretary Update 08 May

You will have picked up from the media that the Deputy First Minister has formed a Covid 19 Education Recovery Group, which is looking at a high-level strategy for when and how schools will reopen post lockdown.


01 March 2021

General Secretary Update 23 April

Following on from the SQA Estimates document being issued on Monday, a few general questions have arisen over the procedures advised by SQA, which hopefully this bulletin will answer.


01 March 2021

Update from The General Secretary 20 April

Update from The General Secretary 20 April


10 September 2020

Response to SQA Statement

I am sure that there will much discussion about the proposals, and there are aspects about which more information is still required.


01 March 2021

Update from the General Secretary 1 April

An update on developments surrounding COVID-19 from the General Secretary


02 September 2020

General Secretary Update 26 March

Welcome to this bulletin which contains some significant updates for your information and convenience.


02 September 2020

Covid-19 Update 22nd March

Apologies for interrupting your weekend but it is important that this update is issued. We had planned to issue this on Friday afternoon but unfortunately we are once again struggling to get agreement from COSLA (our Employers)...


02 September 2020

Update from the General Secretary 18 March

Following on from my email on Monday, I thought it would be helpful to provide a quick update on developments.


01 March 2021

Update from Larry Flanagan 16 March

An update from EIS General Secretary on the Coronavirus


02 September 2020

School Closures

You may not have read, yet, this morning's member email which outlined the constructive engagement the EIS has had with the Scottish Government about the need to make a decision to close schools.


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