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News 21 February 2025 Palestine: International solidarity strengthens early childhood educators’ professional skills and their union
With the purpose of enhancing the professional skills of early childhood educators in Palestine, the General Union of Workers in Kindergarten and Private Schools (GUWKPS) organized a series of four union-sponsored, half-day workshops focused on “trauma-informed education.” This training for Palestinian kindergarten teachers, focused on providing them with tools to...
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News 20 February 2025 A promising future for education in Senegal: tackling the teacher shortage
Faced with a serious shortage of teachers in the country, Senegalese education unions affiliated to Education International, grouped within the Union Syndicale pour une Éducation de Qualité (USEQ) – a trade union coalition for quality education – welcomes the government’s decision to recruit graduates into the profession on an immediate...
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News 20 February 2025 Germany: Education unions united to save remedial classes for primary schools
In a controversial move, the North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) state government plans to eliminate remedial classes from the primary school curriculum. This decision has been met with strong opposition from the Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft (GEW) NRW and the Verband Bildung und Erziehung (VBE) NRW, arguing that this “grave mistake” is...
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News 19 February 2025 Go Public! How Albanian education unions are driving change to fund public education
Albania’s public education system remains critically underfunded, undermining the quality of teaching and learning while leaving teachers with low wages and poor working conditions.
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News 14 February 2025 United States: Education unions rally to oppose Trump education policies
The National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) are mobilizing against the education policies of the new Trump administration which include abolishing the crucial Department of Education, giving access to the private data of millions to an unaccountable billionaire, and expanding private education at the expense...
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News 14 February 2025 A call for reform in Iraqi Kurdistan’s education system
A pressing and persistent issue has been brought to light by the Kurdistan Teachers’ Union (KTU): The excessive number of holidays in the academic calendar has significantly disrupted the educational process, leaving both teachers and students struggling to keep up with the curriculum.
A call for reform in Iraqi Kurdistan’s education system