The Educational Institute of Scotland, the country's largest teaching union released a further statement today attacking Edinburgh's Telford College Principalships decisions to...... "force temporary lecturers to become self-employed contractors working through an English-based recruitment agency." EIS President Kirsty Devaney. goes on to say:
“The introduction of Protocol National, an English-based agency with limited knowledge of the labour market in the Edinburgh communities served by Telford College, has failed to solve any recruitment problems at the college. It is a serious indictment of the management at the college that they feel that they have to hand over some of their own management duties, and thousands of pounds of public money, to a profit making private company based hundreds of miles away. Further education is all about engaging with and serving the local community, and questions must be asked if the management are unable to source and manage qualified local people to fill temporary lecturing posts. The management at the College have also refused to divulge precisely how much money they are paying Protocol National for their services – this is public money which is being lost from the Scottish Further Education system and which could be much better spent providing an improved educational experience for the Edinburgh community.
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