The increasingly bitter battle between teachers and ministers over efforts to keep Scotland’s schools safe from coronavirus has intensified after a national survey revealed complaints that staff and pupils have been left to work in unclean, cold classrooms. Some heads and deputes, meanwhile, suggested that Covid-19 transmission on campuses was not being reported, with responses also indicating teachers simply do not believe the Government position that schools do not contribute significantly to infections amongst staff and students. Publication of the survey findings, which were gathered by the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS), the country’s largest teaching union, comes as staff across the country declare formal disputes with employers which could lead to industrial action.
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A teachers’ vote for a dispute over safety in schools during the Covid-19 pandemic has been described as “disappointing” by Fife Council.
It is one of three branches of Educational Institute of Scotland teaching union to do so, the others in Glasgow and West Dunbartonshire.
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