Created on: 27 May 2025 | Last modified: 04 Nov 2025
Members will be aware from the last update on 3rd October 2025, that no tangible response had been given to the teachers’ side proposals towards reaching agreement on the use of the time resulting from a reduction in weekly class contact time.
03 November 2025As intimated in Friday’s member briefing, the EIS Executive Committee met yesterday to consider the request from Salaries Committee to initiate a statutory ballot for industrial action in pursuit of the SNCT workload dispute.
08 October 2025A further meeting of the SNCT working group on the commitment to reduce weekly class contact time to 21 hours took place on Tuesday 30th September 2025.
03 October 2025As members will be aware, there was a further meeting of the SNCT Reducing Class Contact Time working group held last week on 18th September.
26 September 2025Member update on class contact time prior to the first of 2 key meetings with COSLA and the Scottish Government.
17 September 2025As members will be aware, following agreement at the SNCT meeting of 20th August 2025, the SNCT Working Group on Reducing Class Contact time met last week.
03 September 2025The EIS agreed to open a consultative industrial action ballot as COSLA & Scottish Government continue to fail to make any tangible progress on shortening the maximum class contact hours for Scottish teachers to 21 hours.
27 May 2025