Glasgow City Council has been urged to reverse cuts to education.

Scotland’s biggest teaching union will ballot members over potential strike action in Glasgow.

The EIS will open a ballot on January 6 as it looks to pressure the council into reversing cuts to teaching numbers passed earlier this year which could eventually see 450 jobs lost, with the figure already down by 120 this year.

The announcement comes just weeks after the Scottish Government’s budget for the next financial year increased funding for local authorities by around £1 billion.

EIS general secretary Andrea Bradley said the ballot was a “huge test of credibility” for the council, the government and local authority body Cosla.

“With the ink on the budget agreement, and the pledge on teacher numbers, barely even dry, the largest local authority in Scotland has yet to confirm it will abide by the terms of the agreement,” she said.

“Nationally, we have already seen another local authority, Falkirk, take its own plans for deep cuts to education off the table........

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