Equality: Anti-Racism

Promoting Equality in Education

The Journey to Auschwitz

So it was that a very well prepared group – of Holocaust Educational Trust staff and volunteer educators, pupils, teachers and invited guests – mostly journalists – gathered at Edinburgh Airport in the very early hours of a late autumn morning.

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EIS delegate Andrew Fullwood speaking at @The_TUC in support of 'Recognition & respect for migrant workers'.
Speaking of his experience that children have left his school suddenly due to their parent's visa being revoked - because their pay had fallen below an arbitrary amount.

EIS delegate Sharon Iddir speaking at @The_TUC in favour of inclusion and against misogyny.
"Let's call misogyny what it is - HATE. Let's confront it wherever it lives - online, in schools, in politics, in our workplaces. It has no place in our society."

EIS Pres says that Education is vital to the collective response to the far right: ‘As an education trade union, our members shape the minds of future generations. Our members need the tools to help educate young people to ensure they do not get sucked in to far right ideation.’

EIS President Adam Sutcliffe seconding an important motion at TUC Congress on tackling the far right: ‘We cannot stand idly by while these forces of division and hatred threaten…the very principles of democracy and social justice…’.

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