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SCOTTISH teachers’ fight against government plans to force them to work into their late 60s are far from over, the nation’s largest teaching union warned yesterday.
The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) delivered a blunt message to Holyrood Education Secretary Michael Russell over his widely reviled pensions rejig.
The SNP minister has already upped pensions contributions to at least 9.5 per cent of salary from 6.4 per cent two years ago.
The new Scottish Parliament looks set to continue a cycle of managerial tinkering while public services face the axe, writes STEPHEN LOW
Cuts are sweeping campuses as cash-strapped universities slash staff and politicians fail to act on a growing funding emergency. VINCE MILLS reports
The EIS president who defended Marxist politics in the 1980s fought Thatcherite educational policies while organising Teachers for Peace rallies and ensuring Morning Star circulation in Scotland’s pit villages and factories, writes JOHN FOSTER
