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On 6th March 2010 the EIS together with thousands of teachers and lecturers from across the country gathered for a protest March and Rally in Glasgow. The Demonstration was part of a campaign organised by the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) to defend Scottish education and protect the funding of education in schools, colleges and universities.

The campaign is entitled “Why must our children pay?” and argues that Scotland's pupils and students should not be forced to pay for the mistakes of others by having their education damaged due to budget cutting.

On 26th May 2010 The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) warned local authorities that cutting back on instrumental music teaching in schools is short-sighted and is having a detrimental impact on children’s educational experience.

The EIS noted that some Scottish local authorities, notably Fife and Midlothian, were already scaling back music instruction in their schools to cut costs. With the political push to cut public spending, music tuition in schools and the jobs of instrumental music instructors are increasingly under threat.

On 2nd June 2010 The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) condemned the poor employment prospects for many newly qualified teachers as "shocking” and called for urgent action by the Scottish Government to ensure that local authorities make sufficient posts available for new teachers who have completed their probation year.

The EIS spoke out as a new survey from the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) showed that only 30% of post-probation year teachers have gained a permanent teaching post in the last year.

On the 8th June 2010 The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) welcomed the Scottish Government’s announcement of additional support to help teachers in the implementation of Curriculum for Excellence. The EIS had been calling for additional time for teachers to prepare for CfE, and views the allocation of an additional in-service day as a significant step forward.

Commenting on the announcement by Cabinet Secretary Mike Russell, EIS General Secretary Ronnie Smith said, "The EIS supports Curriculum for Excellence, but has raised concerns over the scarcity of dedicated time for teachers to work on the implementation of CfE. The announcement today of an additional in-service day to allow all teachers to work on CfE is a significant step forward in the implementation process.”

On the 16th July 2010 The EIS welcomed the Scottish Government’s announcement to defer a decision on the proposed Glasgow colleges merger.

The EIS had questioned the educational rationale behind the proposed merger of Nautical, Metropolitan and Central colleges.

The EIS had also asked why the merged college would lead to fewer student places than are currently provided by the three individual colleges, and why another Glasgow institution - Stow College - had not been included in the merger process.

On the 29th August 2010 The EIS reacted with disappointment to a Scottish Tory press release which uses misleading and highly questionable figures to stage a predictable, and wildly misinformed, attack on the role of trade union representatives in education.

Responding to the claims made in the Tory press release, EIS General Secretary Ronnie Smith said, "It is disappointing that the Tory party is returning to its old union-bashing agenda of the Thatcher years.

On the 14th September 2010 The EIS gave a guarded welcome to the Regulations announced by Education Secretary Michael Russell to legally limit primary one class sizes at 25. Drew Morrice, Assistant Secretary, said "The previous Government sought to introduce class size maxima by circular, and the present administration has simply invited councils to move towards class size reductions. Both approaches laid councils open to challenge on placing requests.

On the 13th October 2010 The EIS was one of two unions representing academic staff in Scotland’s Higher Education Sector, and is one of five campus trade unions that negotiate pay and other issues with the UK University Employers Association.

Responding to the Browne Review recommendations, an EIS Official said: "These are recommendations for the UK Government and Parliament to consider, and will only directly affect English Universities and their students. However, if enacted they will also have far reaching consequences for future students in Scottish Universities.

On the 14th October 2010 the EIS responded to the news that HMIe and LTS were set to merge, the EIS has questioned the rationale behind the merger and the remit for the new organisation – the Scottish Education, Quality and Improvement Agency – that is set to be created by the merger.

Commenting on the announcement today, EIS President Kay Barnett said, "This merger announcement, which will bring together two quite disparate organisations with very different roles and responsibilities, will raise many questions within the Scottish education community. Teachers and parents will want to be assured that this merger is being undertaken for the right reasons and is not being driven purely by a financial, cost-cutting agenda.”

On the 23rd October 2010 Twenty thousand people - teachers and lecturers from across Scotland, fellow public sector workers and supporters of public services - staged a major anti-cuts demonstration in Edinburgh.

The March and Rally, organised in affiliation with the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC), sent a clear message to government that the deep cuts - just announced in the Westminster government’s Comprehensive Spending Review - will cause massive damage to public services across Scotland and put economic recovery and the future of the country at risk.

On the 1st December 2010 The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) criticized the Scottish Government’s concordat with local authorities, under which national policies, such as reduced class sizes, are expected to be delivered.

The Scottish Government and councils have not delivered on the commitment to reduce class sizes in schools. The EIS have referred to the policy as a shambolic failure. The emergence of a postcode lottery in education provision across Scotland is also a result of the discredited concordat, resulting in wide disparities in class sizes, teacher numbers and investment in school resources.

On 27th December 2010 The EIS lodged a 5,000 signature Petition to the Scottish Parliament calling for action to ensure sufficient jobs are made available for all newly qualified teachers at the end of their Induction (Probationary) year.

The urgent need for action has been reinforced by the most recent results from the annual General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) survey of new teachers which found that an all-time low of just 16.1% had found full time permanent posts, compared with 63.3% when the survey began in 2005. Over a quarter (27.1%) had found no teaching work at all, compared with 5.3% in 2005

On the 30th December 2011 The Educational Institute of Scotland called for a thorough examination of the role of Scotland’s 32 local authorities in managing education provision and running schools. As local authorities increasingly look at shared services in order to provide public services more economically, a reduction in the number of education authorities and a possible move towards dedicated education boards is one model that warrants serious consideration, the EIS says

On the18th February 2011 A massive 97% of Renfrewshire primary teachers have voted against the Council’s plans to cut 2.5 hours from the teaching week for all primary pupils.

Teachers voted in huge numbers against Renfrewshire Council’s move towards part-time education in primary schools, in an indicative industrial action ballot organised by EIS.

Teachers and parents were united in their condemnation of the Council’s proposals, and the ballot result gives a clear indication of the strength of feeling ahead of a protest rally which took place on Saturday 19 February in Paisley.

On the 28th Feburary 2011 The EIS called for a ‘Day of Action’ throughout the Further Education in Scotland which was held on 01 March 2011.

The Day of Action was in response to the cuts announced for 2011-12 which amount to a 10.4% cut to teaching grants across Scotland’s colleges and a 52% cut to capital spending.

EIS General Secretary Ronnie Smith said, "The Day of Action is an opportunity for FE lecturers to highlight the damaging effects of these cuts which will diminish the provision of an effective further education service to tens of thousands of Scottish students.”

On the 4th April 2011 The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) launched a new ballot to enable teachers to have their say on a revised pay and conditions offer from their employers.

The EIS encouraged teachers to vote "Yes” to accept the revised proposals to protect teachers’ jobs and maintain nationally-negotiated pay and conditions of service for all teachers.