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Commercialisation and privatisation in and of education will be at the heart of Education International’s agenda for the next four years as the organisation concluded a successful Seventh World Congress in Ottawa, Canada.
Congress ends on a high note
Sungho Byun, President of the Korean Teachers and Education, brought an urgent resolution before Congress in response to the 60 thousand teachers from KTU who lost their union after the government decertified them earlier this year.
Plight of teachers in Korea, Colombia, Nepal, and Iran raised in urgent resolutions
Several resolutions were passed at Education International’s 7th World Congress on the promotion of democracy, sustainable development, fair trade, basic social service and health and safety through solidarity and cooperation among member organisations, the international trade union movement and civil society.
Call for values and end to violence
“The situation of trade unions rights in Arab countries remains of grave concern,” said Patrick Roach, of the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers who addressed Congress on Resolution 2.10 Resolution: Issues in the Arab Countries.
Trade union concerns in Arab countries raised
In almost 60 percent of countries, workers – including teachers - are excluded from fundamental labour rights, said Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) when addressing EI’s 7th World Congress in Ottawa, Canada, on 26 July.
ITUC solidarity with teachers
Education support personnel (ESP) were celebrated in an Education International (EI) video presented to EI’s 7th World Congress on 25 July. The animated video was entitled, ‘It takes the entire education workforce to educate the whole child’.
It takes the entire education workforce to educate the whole child
Ahead of the 7th Education International Congress in Ottawa, Canada, 70 participants from 25 countries representing 50 French-speaking unions discussed on 19 July the role of languages in education and culture, and reflected on the future of education post-2015.
Teacher trade unionists focus on Francophonie and linguistic diversity