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Emma Seith & Henry Hepburn
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Teacher strikes: EIS union members vote to accept pay offer
Teacher strike action over pay started in November in Scotland but all industrial action has now been called off by the EIS, Scotland’s biggest teaching union
General
10 March 2023
Teacher strikes: EIS union members vote to accept pay offer
‘Delusional’ advice to learn new instrument attacked
Disbelief at SQA suggestion that students studying instruments hit by Covid restrictions ‘learn a different instrument’
General
27 November 2020
SQA was far more likely to downgrade state students
State school students were nearly twice as likely as private school students to be downgraded by now-abandoned moderation process
9 October 2020
SQA results fiasco ‘could have been partially avoided’
Review of the results debacle says trust in the SQA has been ‘eroded’ and some teacher-pupil relationships ‘damaged’
7 October 2020
Sturgeon: You don’t have to cancel half-term breaks
From Friday residents in Central Belt told to avoid travel – with people from other parts of Scotland urged to stay away
7 October 2020
‘Impossible’ to deliver usual exams in 2021, says union
Clarity on next year’s exams is needed before students in Scotland return to school in August, admits education secretary
12 June 2020