Sign SSTA's Charter for Secondary Teachers and tell the Scottish Government: Fix the job, not the teacher.

Sign SSTA's Charter for Secondary Teachers and tell the Scottish Government: Fix the job, not the teacher.

GENERAL SECRETARY The Scottish Secondary Teachers’ Association (SSTA) is the only Scottish-based teaching union exclusively representing teachers in secondary education. With around 6,000 members, the...

GENERAL SECRETARY The Scottish Secondary Teachers’ Association (SSTA) is the only Scottish-based teaching union exclusively representing teachers in secondary education. With around 6,000 members, the...

The Scottish Secondary Teachers’ Association (SSTA) has warned that growing shortages of specialist secondary teachers are the result of years of inadequate workforce planning, weak retention strategi...

The SSTA Congress motion was submitted to this week’s SNCT Teachers’ Side meeting. The motion called for a 7% pay uplift for all secondary school teachers until the Scottish Government fulfilled its c...

Managing Teacher Workload (WTA) – Don’t Say Yes, Say How Working Time Agreements (WTAs) for the next school year are currently being negotiated in many schools. These agreements should determine how t...

SSTA Calls for Urgent Action on Education The Scottish Secondary Teachers’ Association (SSTA) is calling on the new Scottish Government to make education its top priority and commit to urgent, meaning...

SSTA response to COSLA’s Press Statement raising concerns on ‘Reduction in Class Contact Time’ The SSTA Salaries and Conditions of Service Committee reviewed the COSLA’s Press Statement on the ‘Reduct...

SSTA response to Scottish Government ‘A National Deal for Scotland’s Teachers’ The SSTA Salaries and Conditions of Service Committee reviewed the Scottish Government ‘A National Deal for Scotland’s Te...

The SNCT Teachers’ Side met this morning to discuss concerns arising from the Cabinet Secretary’s press release, Delivering Reduced Class Contact Time, issued on Thursday 20 November, along with the s...

Our SSTA Health and Wellbeing Committee have done some fantastic work over the last 2 months on how excessive workload impacts on the ability of our teachers in Secondary schools to deliver success. I...

‘Deepening crisis’ of staff shortages also sees primary teachers frequently taking on roles in secondary schools, reveals survey by Scottish Secondary Teachers’ Association

Industrial Action on the Horizon – Reduction in Class Contact Time The SSTA welcomes the Scottish Government’s proposal to establish a work plan for the Scottish Negotiating Committee for Teachers (SN...

⚠️ Please note: The SSTA Council meeting scheduled for Saturday 4 October in Glasgow will now take place online only due to adverse weather. Council members have been sent the meeting link by email. I...

SNCT Extended Joint Chairs – Pay Update The SNCT Extended Joint Chairs (SSTA, EIS, COSLA and the Scottish Government) met on Friday 5 September following the rejection of the latest pay offer by the T...

SSTA Pupil Behaviour Survey – Update The SSTA Pupil Behaviour Survey has already received more than 600 responses. Early results show that defiance (including refusal to work) is reported as the most significant challenge for teachers. This is followed by disrespect and grandstanding (clowning), wandering (in classrooms and corridors), and mobile device misuse. When asked “Have you seen an improvement […]

The ‘Delivering the 90 Minutes and Protecting Secondary Teachers’ consultative survey received 2,811 responses. Members’ contributions provided invaluable insights that will strengthen our campaign to...

The SNCT Teachers’ Side received an Employers’ Side pay offer on 16 June. The proposal was for a two-year settlement, with an undifferentiated 4% increase in the first year and a 3.5% increase in the ...

Delivering the 90 Minutes and Protecting Secondary Teachers – Consultative Survey Thank you to the more than 2,800+ members who took part in the recent SSTA consultative survey. Your contribution is i...

The SSTA continues to hear from members that disruptive behaviour by young people is a growing barrier to effective learning and teaching. Such behaviour not only impacts learners’ attainment but also...

Reduction in Class Contact Time – ‘More Excuses’  The SSTA, alongside other teacher unions, has been waiting for four years to discuss the proposed 90-minute reduction in teacher class contact time—wi...

‘Exhausted and burnt out’ teachers urgently need the long-promised reduction in class-contact time, says Scottish Secondary Teachers’ Association

‘Exhausted and burnt out’ teachers urgently need the long-promised reduction in class-contact time, says Scottish Secondary Teachers’ Association

'Delivering the 90 minutes and protecting secondary teachers' member survey As part of the 'Delivering the 90 minutes and protecting secondary teachers' member survey we asked about teachers workload....

Relationships and Behaviour Action Plan - Welcomed by SSTA The Scottish Government published the Relationships and Behaviour Action Plan in August 2024. The 3-year action plan was developed by the Sco...

'Delivering the 90 minutes and protecting secondary teachers' member survey Reducing class contact time is a crucial step in addressing excessive teacher workload. Despite this, employers have failed ...

Teachers in Scotland have lost patience over the slow progress on cutting class-contact time by 90 minutes a week, says SSTA

'Industrial Action Sanctioned' - Reduction in Class Contact Time  As no progress has been made toward the long-promised reduction in class contact time, the SSTA National Executive has sanctioned a co...

SNCT Pay Claim 2025-2026  ‘Doubt if it will be delivered on time’ The SNCT Teachers’ Side continues to await an improved pay offer, following the rejection of the initial 3% offer in March. The SSTA, ...