ORGANISING ACADEMY » Joanna http://www.organisingacademy.org.uk Group blog for TUC Organising Academy trainees Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:38:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Update on EIS activities http://www.organisingacademy.org.uk/2009/03/update-on-eis-activities/ http://www.organisingacademy.org.uk/2009/03/update-on-eis-activities/#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:04:11 +0000 Joanna http://www.organisingacademy.org.uk/?p=108 I’m now over the half way point at the EIS, and things are going well.  I’ve been surveying as many of our student members as possible, and it’s becoming clear that they have the same concern preying on their minds: the shortage of jobs in Scotland for newly qualified teachers.  I spoke to some of the EIS officers about this, and they are of the opinion that the Scottish Government could be doing more to rectify this situation.  I suggested the EIS distribute a petition about it, and get as many people as possible to sign it so that it can be presented to the Petitions Committee at the Scottish Parliament.  The petition was printed last week, so I can now start approaching as many students as possible to get their signatures and discuss the issue.  I’m really looking forward to it, because I think it’ll be an opportunity to get students more involved in the union.  At the same time, I’m also going to ask as many teaching students as possible if they would be interested in attending an EIS Students’ Conference, as this is something else I would really like to see established.

The EIS now has a student website so I’m busy contributing to that as much as possible, and I’m also doing talks in lecture theatres to try and increase the number of probationer reps in the EIS.  Busy, busy busy!

Joanna

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See you all on the 10th!

Joanna

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