The outgoing President of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS), the country’s largest teaching union, will today use his final speech in office to warn against a return to the damaging programme of austerity that has decimated public services over the past decade.
The EIS President, Bill Ramsay, will also highlight the immense scale of the challenge facing Scottish education in the COVID-19 era. Mr Ramsay will deliver his speech to a special online meeting of the EIS Council which has been convened following the enforced cancellation of the EIS Annual General Meeting (AGM) – the Institute’s sovereign decision making body – as a result of the COVID-19 crisis.
Read the full speech here.