SCOTLAND’S largest teaching union warned today that a national dispute now looks “inevitable,” after years of councils and the SNP Scottish government “stalling” workload talks.

The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) fired the shot across the bows after national and local governments missed a key deadline for proposals on how they will meet their commitment to cut teachers’ classroom time.

In 2021, the SNP manifesto promised to cut the time spent in class by 90 minutes a week to 21 hours, but, four years on, there are no plans to deliver it.