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{{Short description|Teachers' trade union in Scotland}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2017}}
{{Infobox union
|name         = EIS
|location_country= [[Scotland]]
|affiliation  = [[Scottish Trades Union Congress|STUC]], [[Trades Union Congress|TUC]], [[Education International|EI]]
|members      = {{increase}} 56,342 (2022)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1155221/5035T_2022.pdf |access-date=18 July 2023|website=publishing.service.gov.uk|title=Annual Return for a Trade Union}}</ref>
|full_name    = Educational Institute of Scotland
|native_name  = 
|image        = [[File:Educational Institute of Scotland (logo).png|150px]]
|founded      = 1847
|dissolved    = 
|merged       = 
|headquarters = [[Edinburgh]], Scotland
|key_people   = Andrene Bamford, President <br /> Andrea Bradley, General Secretary
|website      = {{url|http://www.eis.org.uk}}
}}

The '''Educational Institute of Scotland''' ('''EIS''') is the oldest teachers' [[trade union]] in the world, having been founded in 1847 when [[dominie]]s became concerned about the effect of changes to the system of [[education in Scotland]] on their professional status.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Educational Institute of Scotland|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095742740|access-date=2021-09-27|website=Oxford Reference|language=en}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web|title=150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCOTLAND - Early Day Motions - UK Parliament|url=https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/16216/150th-anniversary-of-the-educational-institute-of-scotland|access-date=2021-09-27|website=edm.parliament.uk|language=en}}</ref>   The EIS is  the largest teaching union in Scotland, representing 80% of the country's teachers and lecturers. {{As of|2022}} it has 56,342 members.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1155221/5035T_2022.pdf |access-date=18 July 2023|website=publishing.service.gov.uk|title=Annual Return for a Trade Union}}</ref>

==General Secretaries==
:1910-1915: Samual Murray
:1915-1922: Hugh Cameron
:1922-1926: George Crossar Pringle
:1926-1941: Tom Henderson
:1941-1945: John Wishart
:1945-1952: Alexander J. Belford
:1952-1960: William Campbell
:1960-1974: Gilbert Stewart Bryden
:1974-1988: [[John D. Pollock]]
:1988-1995: [[Jim Martin (ombudsman)|Jim Martin]]
:1995-2012: Ronnie Smith
:2012-2022: [[Larry Flanagan]]
:2022-present: Andrea Bradley

[[File:Scottish_Educational_Journal_June_21,_1979.jpg|thumb|right|A copy of the ''Scottish Educational Journal'' from 21 June 1979, in tabloid format.]]

==Scottish Educational Journal==
The ''Scottish Educational Journal'' (SEJ) is the magazine of the EIS, which has been appearing, formerly in tabloid format, since ca. 1917.

==Fellowships==

Since being granted a [[royal charter]] by [[Queen Victoria]], it is the only union able to award [[academic degree|degree]]s.<ref>"1851 Queen Victoria granted a Royal Charter to the EIS. Membership at the time: over 1,800. Among the powers conferred on the EIS was the power to award a degree of "Fellow of the Institute". In 2007, the EIS remains the only trade union which awards degrees." {{cite web|title=History of the EIS|url=http://www.eis.org.uk/public.asp?id=206|publisher=Educational Institute of Scotland|access-date=2008-01-12}}</ref> A recipient of the EIS degree is a ''Fellow of the Educational Institute of Scotland'', denoted by the [[post-nominal]] ''FEIS''.

An early example of such a degree (awarded in December 1847) was worded as follows:<ref>Handwritten copy by John G. Smith, appended to his letter dated 28 Sep 1864 to Southland Provincial Council, New Zealand - Extracted from Southland Provincial Papers, SP 14 Immigration (at very end of Roll 32) held at Invercargill Public Library, Southland, NZ</ref>
{{Blockquote|text=''"The Educational Institute of Scotland
DIPLOMA OF FELLOW.

We, the Committee of Fellows of the Educational Institute of Scotland, appointed by the General Meeting which was held in the High School of Edinburgh on Saturday the 18th September 1847 to grant Diplomas to those Members admitted within the year 1847 who might be desirous of obtaining the Grade of Junior Licentiate, Senior Licentiate or Fellow, having examined the evidence produced by Mr John Gibson Smith, Schoolmaster of Ednam, in attestation of his professional attainments, experience and skill – and having found that his testimonials certify -

1st   That he is qualified to teach English, Grammar, Composition, History, Geography, Writing, Arithmetic, Algebra, Natural Science, Agricultural Chemistry, Latin, Greek and French.

2nd  That he has taught with acceptance and success during a period of Twenty years all the above named branches -

Do hereby, on the 11th day of December 1847, grant to the said Mr John Gibson Smith this Diploma conferring on him the Grade of Fellow of the Educational Institute of Scotland, with all the honours rights and privileges thereto belonging.

(Signed)  L. Schmits, George S. Davidson, F.R. Low L.L.D., James Fulton, John White, Alex Reid L.L.D., Walter Nichol L.L.D., Wm. Knox."
''}}

== Industrial action ==
Threats of industrial action by the EIS  evoke memories for many of the long-running teacher strikes of the 1980s <ref>{{Cite web|title=Threat of worst teaching strikes in Scotland since 1980s|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17236551.threat-worst-teaching-strikes-scotland-since-1980s/|access-date=2021-09-27|website=HeraldScotland|date=21 November 2018 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Pensions row could bring first teachers' strike since the 80s|url=https://www.scotsman.com/education/pensions-row-could-bring-first-teachers-strike-80s-1662977|access-date=2021-09-27|website=www.scotsman.com|date=29 August 2011 |language=en}}</ref> During the 1984-86 industrial action almost 15 million pupil days were lost across Scotland.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Ross|first=Calum|title=Call to "let Scots stew" during 1980s Margaret Thatcher schools row|url=https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/politics/uk-politics/434988/call-to-let-scots-stew-during-schools-row/|access-date=2021-09-27|website=Press and Journal|date=30 December 2014 |language=en-GB}}</ref> It was a sustained campaign of industrial action in  Scottish education in opposition to the  Conservative Government. Larry Flanagan has described it as “''the first time that any group of workers, anywhere in the UK, successfully stood firm in defiance of a concerted, ideologically driven attack by the Tory government''.”<ref name=":0" />

==External links==
* {{Official website}}

== References ==
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