Created on: 11 Oct 2011 | Last modified: 27 Jan 2025
A core component of the national contract for academic staff in the post 1992 sector in Scotland is activity planning.
22 April 2007The EIS recognises the efforts made by Scottish HEIs to avoid making compulsory redundancies last year, and hopes that this will continue into the Academic Year 2012-13.
26 September 2012This booklet is a guide for Branch Officers giving guidance on the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988, Declaration on Academic Writers and Academic Rights, Understanding Copyright and Intellectual Property Laws.
22 April 2007Good practice guidance - December 2017. The EIS wishes to enable Reps to assist Universities in supporting learners and staff during menstruation, which is a normal part of life.
01 May 2019Guide for EIS-FELA Branch Negotiators & Members on Fixed-Term Contracts. A fixed-term contract (FTC) lasts for a specific length of time, or the event takes place or until the task finishes.
30 October 2013The EIS advice to all members who are requested by their employer to film a lecture (or any other teaching material).
19 March 2013This guidance is intended to inform the processes developed at institutional level for assimilating academic staff to new grading and pay structures.
23 April 2007HE2000, the new professional contract for academic staff in the “new” university sector has two distinct components, core and non-core contractual terms.
22 April 2007Use of computers, email and the internet has long been widespread in higher education and increasingly so in further education.
23 April 2007The national library of Academic Role Profiles to be used for academic staff in HEIs when implementing the grading structure of the Framework Agreement.
23 April 2007This agreement has been developed in partnership between employers’ and trades unions’ representatives under the arrangements detailed in the June 2001 agreement establishing the JNCHES.
23 April 2007The proposed Regulations on Fixed-Term Employees which come into force on 1 October 2002 required institutions to reduce significantly the current and future use of HE staff on fixed-term and casual contracts.
23 April 2007This Guidance for higher education institutions and their staff has been developed in partnership between employers’ and trade unions’ representatives within the Joint Negotiating Committee for Higher Education Staff (JNCHES).
23 April 2007The aim of this document is to assist HE institutions (HEIs) to achieve standards of good practice in work-life balance by implementing comprehensive and effective local policies.
23 April 2007The guidance on role analysis and job evaluation includes advice to institutions on the selection of a suitable system to underpin pay and grading arrangements to ensure ‘equal pay’ criteria are met.
23 April 2007The Memorandum of Understanding was agreed between EIS-ULA and the Post-92 Institutions in Scotland. The memorandum commits HEIs to ensuring existing staff* will not be disadvantaged in career earnings by the new arrangements.
23 April 2007The aim of this guidance is to advise union members and union representatives on the main issues relating to e-learning that are likely to face EIS members in colleges, universities and the other organisations in which we represent members.
23 April 2007This guidance contains information to assist EIS-ULA branch secretaries/branch negotiators reach an agreement suitable for their individual institutional circumstances.
22 April 2007The SFC has issued a circular with the purpose of informing heads of institutions of arrangements for reviewing codes of practice for the selection of staff for the Research Execllence Framework.
28 November 2011The overall purpose of a scheme of staff development and career review should be to improve the ability of HEIs to facilitate the enhancement of professional expertise and personal development of staff.
22 April 2007Reducing workplace stress will not only improve members’ health and wellbeing, but also the quality of their work, which is naturally in the interests of staff, students and the Institution.
04 September 2015EIS-ULA branch officers have an important role to play in ensuring that stress is tackled in the workplace and that a trade union approach is adopted to ensuring that the causes of stress on the workplace are identified and eliminated.
22 April 2007This advice sets out the framework in which EIS-ULA would expect to see student complaints dealt with. It focuses on complaints made on broadly academic grounds.
23 April 2007New JNCHES Sustainability Issues Working Group
23 November 2011