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Equity and inclusion 3 March 2016 Educating refugee children becomes an unofficial theme in Berlin
With Germany as the backdrop, the plight of refugee children and their education opportunities have become a focus at the Sixth International Summit on the Teaching Profession, where teachers’ unions are meeting with education ministers.
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Standards and working conditions 3 March 2016 One profession, one voice: teachers’ unions united in Berlin
When education ministers look across the table during the sixth International Summit on the Teaching Profession in Berlin, Germany, they will be faced with a common voice speaking for all teachers.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 1 March 2016 Liberia: for-profit wave about to hit public education
With the government ready to outsource public education to for-profit providers in Liberia, unions are raising their voice against the perilous consequences that this decision could have on access and quality.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 1 March 2016 Unions ready to lead the way at teachers’ Berlin Summit
The voice of the teaching profession is loud and clear in Berlin where unions are meeting face-to-face with education ministers from around the world to let governments know what teachers need for professional growth.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 29 February 2016 UK: Education support personnel crucial for quality education
The idea of schools as a communities that support the whole child is reaffirmed as study after study continue to highlight the importance of education support personnel in boosting learning outcomes for students.
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Equity and inclusion 29 February 2016 Australian teachers’ union calls on government to boost education funding
The Australian Education Union is gearing up for a $2 million TV advertising campaign aimed at garnering support for extra education funding under the so-called "Gonski programme."
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 26 February 2016 UK: Neglect pushes teachers out of the profession
The British public education service is haemorrhaging teachers, many of whom are either seeking better conditions outside of the United Kingdom or contemplating a career change to flee precarious employment.
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Trade union rights are human rights 25 February 2016 South African students take HIV/AIDS education programme to the US
Students from a Cape Town high school are heading to California as part of an ongoing joint initiative of South African and American teachers’ unions to bring HIV/AIDS education into the classroom.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 24 February 2016 USA: Teachers, students and parents stage massive walk-ins for public schools
Teachers across the US “reclaimed” their public schools in a mass coordinated mobilisation to throw the spotlight on the challenges facing public education and solutions needed to address them.
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Union growth 24 February 2016 Haiti: political violence claims academic’s life
The killing of a teacher unionist has exposed the deteriorating political situation in Haiti where the country was left to linger in constitutional limbo following the resignation of President Michel Martelly.
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Trade union rights are human rights 23 February 2016 Labour unions up in arms after Iran’s Esmail Abdi sentenced to six years in prison
Renewed efforts are underway to free Esmail Abdi after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Court officially sentenced the teacher unionist to six years in prison for alleged crimes related to trade union activism.
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Standards and working conditions 22 February 2016 International Summit on the Teaching Profession enshrines tradition of dialogue
Now in its sixth edition, the International Summit on the Teaching Profession has established itself as an important and unique event that fosters dialogue between decision makers and teachers’ unions.
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Standards and working conditions 22 February 2016 Indonesia: Teachers call for change in professional status
Teachers across Indonesia are urging their government to keep its promise to change their professional status from non-permanent to permanent civil servants, entitling them to decent work and living conditions.
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Equity and inclusion 19 February 2016 Quality education speaks many languages
This year’s International Mother Language Day stresses that learning in one’s native tongue is not only crucial to achieving quality education and linguistic diversity, but important to advancing the 2030 agenda for sustainable development.
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Trade union rights are human rights 18 February 2016 Djibouti: teacher unionist released from prison after global support
Teacher unionist and human rights defender Omar Ali Ewado is once again a free man after he was released from prison on 14 February following an appeals court decision that dismissed charges against him.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 18 February 2016 Haiti: United Nations report puts for-profit education on the side-lines
The latest report of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on Haiti underlines the importance of free quality education and warns of the perilous effects of unregulated public-private partnerships.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 17 February 2016 A focus on quality education crucial to achieving 2030 development goals
Education International and partner organisation ASCD, a global community dedicated to excellence in learning, teaching, and leading, call for a clear definition of quality education that places the needs of the child at the fore.
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Standards and working conditions 16 February 2016 OECD report calls for increased support and investment in teachers
A new report on teacher professionalism raises concerns about the level of support teachers are receiving across the globe, revealing significant shortfalls in high-needs schools.
OECD report calls for increased support and investment in teachers