TEACHERS’ union EIS warned yesterday that colleges in Scotland could face further strike action by lecturers due to management’s failure to enact a national pay deal agreed with bosses almost a year ago.

The EIS-FELA (Further Education Lecturers’ Association) declared the formal dispute after talks broke down at last week’s national joint negotiating committee (NJNC) meeting, which was scheduled to agree the implementation of the pay agreement.

EIS general secretary Larry Flanagan said his union was “extremely disappointed” that members had been forced into a formal dispute with management over broken promises.He warned that EIS “fully expects all the promises made to further education lecturers at that time to be kept.”