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Climate action and literacy 20 November 2016 COP22: Education is the fuel of the future
The crucial role of educators indelivering education for sustainable development and climate change education was reaffirmed at the “Sustainability starts with educators” roundtable at the 22nd Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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Equity and inclusion 20 November 2016 Education central to empowering refugees
With conflicts around the world driving people to seek asylum from violence and persecution, Education International is bringing together teacher unions, governments and civil society organisations to address the link between education and integration.
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Leading the profession 18 November 2016 ResNet Africa: Collaboration on tools for quality research
Researchers and union leaders at Education International’s Research Network Africa learnt how to use online tools and develop in-depth approaches to qualitative interviews during dynamic and practical skill-focused sessions.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 18 November 2016 Francophone education unions mobilise for achievement of SDGs
Numerous Francophone education unions have pushed for the realisation of the sustainable development goal on education, and discussed ways to improve basic education in their countries, and in particular in Madagascar.
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Union renewal and development 17 November 2016 Upcoming eventsUpcoming events
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Union renewal and development 17 November 2016 Latin AmericaLatin America
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Union renewal and development 17 November 2016 EuropeEurope
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Union renewal and development 17 November 2016 Asia-PacificAsia-Pacific
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Union renewal and development 17 November 2016 AfricaAfrica
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Leading the profession 17 November 2016 African research leaders ready to influence education policy development and develop quality education
African researchers and union leaders are coming together in Accra, Ghana, to showcase the use by African education unions of compelling evidence-based research to strengthen their advocacy work and shape education policy.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 17 November 2016 IFHERC: Challenges still to be faced in tertiary education and research
Academic freedom, international solidarity, gender, casualisation and privatisation came under the spotlight at Education International’s 10th International Further and Higher Education and Research Conference, attended by leaders of tertiary education and research.
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Union growth 16 November 2016 Voyage to international conference becomes an odyssey for Colombian academic
Miguel Angel Beltrán, a prominent academic invited to deliver a keynote on free speech at Education International’s higher education conference in Ghana had to once again overcome political discrimination in order to reach his destination.
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Union renewal and development 16 November 2016 Death of Elie Jouen, former EI Deputy General Secretary
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Elie Jouen, who was Deputy General Secretary at Education International from its foundation until he retired shortly after the Berlin Congress, in 2008.
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Union renewal and development 15 November 2016 European education unions welcome new ETUCE director
Education International is pleased to announce the appointment of Susan Flocken as the new European Director of ETUCE (European Trade Union Committee for Education), the European Region of EI.
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Union growth 15 November 2016 Canada: teachers are victorious as bargaining rights acknowledged by Supreme Court
After a hard-fought and divisive judicial battle, British Columbia’s educators are celebrating a Supreme Court decision that reaffirms collective bargaining rights and opens the door to the hiring of hundreds of teachers.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 13 November 2016 The trade unions of the Francophonie place education under the microscope
The Francophone Trade Union Committee for Education and Training is meeting in Madagascar to share the French-speaking perspective on union rights to the precarious position of teachers and the private financing of education.
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Union renewal and development 10 November 2016 US Elections: "Though we are disheartened, we must not lose heart."
The election of Donald Trump has stunned the American education unions NEA and AFT. Both unions have actively campaigned for the election of Hillary Clinton who had promised to give quality public education for all a prominent place on her political agenda.
US Elections: "Though we are disheartened, we must not lose heart."