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Union renewal and development 17 October 2014 ETUCE Committee – Preparing the ETUCE Special Conference
On 13 to 14 October 2014, the members of the ETUCE Committee met in Brussels for their autumn meeting. With a minute’s silence the Committee commemorated the deceased colleagues and fellow unionists, Monica Rodrigues, ATL, UK and Agnes Breda, UNSA-Education, France, and staff member of the EI head office in...
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Standards and working conditions 17 October 2014 Education unions celebrate teachers throughout Asia-Pacific
Events across the Asia-Pacific region, including an eclectic crowd of teachers, students, parents, and monks in Cambodia, brought together various unions and organisations to mark World Teachers’ Day.
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Standards and working conditions 17 October 2014 Annual Eurydice report on teachers’ and school heads’ salaries
This year’s edition of the annual Eurydice report on teachers’ and school heads’ salaries and allowances shows that about half of the 33 surveyed European countries have applied salary cuts or salary freezes for public employees during the period 2009-2014. In these countries, teachers’ purchasing power in 2014 is still...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 17 October 2014 Successful Round Table Meeting in Vilnius
On 1 October 2014 the ETUCE held the 4th Round Table Meeting in Vilnius to promote social dialogue in the education sector. The meeting was conducted at a very opportune and important time as the trade unions and the Ministry of Education and Science are currently in comprehensive negotiations about...
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Trade union rights are human rights 17 October 2014 Sierra Leone: Teachers learning to cope with Ebola
The Ebola epidemic has brought education to a halt in Sierra Leone, shuttering classrooms across the country, leaving all teachers, children, and communities affected as the disease continues to claim lives.
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Trade union rights are human rights 17 October 2014 General strike in Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) off the agenda for now
A strike in FYROM's education sector announced by ETUCE's Macedonian member organisation SONK on 29 September 2014 was averted at the very last moment. Following ETUCE's written intervention at the Macedonian Ministry of Education and ETUCE's ad hoc meeting with SONK in Skopje, the Ministry had suddenly agreed to return...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 17 October 2014 Positioning School Leadership in the Agenda for School Reforms
Members of the European Policy Network on School Leadership (EPNoSL) network met in Nice on 25 -26 September 2014 to discuss the implementation of priorities for the development of school leadership to validate reflection tools for school leadership policy design and to share good practices.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 17 October 2014 Education and other public services - an increasingly controversial issue in TTIP
The 7th round of the TTIP negotiations between the EU and the US closed on 3 October 2014. During the joint press conference both the US and the EU chief negotiators , addressed specifically the issue of public services and claimed that public services would not be affected by TTIP....
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Union renewal and development 16 October 2014 European trade unions tackle economic agreements and impact of education crisis
European Union economic agreements, the economic and financial crisis, and their impact on education were the focus for roughly 50 European education unionists as they gathered in Brussels to tackle issues across the continent.
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Standards and working conditions 15 October 2014 France: Unions stress national and global need to prioritise education
Education International’s French affiliates capitalised on World Teachers’ Day to stress the importance of education remaining both a national and global priority, while renewing their calls for increased investment.
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Union renewal and development 15 October 2014 Education International joins fight against Ebola
With the outbreak continuing to spread and the death toll rising, Education International is teaming up with affiliates in Western Africa, drafting plans to secure schools and raise awareness on prevention.
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Union renewal and development 14 October 2014 EI mourns the loss of a friend, and leader in education
It is with profound regret that we announce the death of Ms Stella Maldonado, General Secretary of CTERA, and member of the EI Executive Board.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 14 October 2014 Haiti: Calls made for total commitment to quality education
Together, Haiti’s President and Minister of National Education joined hundreds celebrating World Teachers’ Day in a ceremony organised by the Confédération Nationale des Educatrices et Educateurs d’Haïti (CNEH), a national affiliate of Education International.
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Union growth 10 October 2014 Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi win Nobel Peace Prize
Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi have been awarded the Nobel peace prize “for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education”.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 10 October 2014 Finland: Campaign kicks-off to defend teachers and quality education
Along with an activist dressed as a rooster, the symbol of reading, learning and education for some 500 years, representatives of Opetusalan Ammattijärjestö called for “No cuts to the education budget!"
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Equity and inclusion 10 October 2014 USA: LGBT people pay an ‘unfair price’
Education International (EI) welcomes a landmark report which provides a stark picture of the added financial burdens faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in United States because of discriminatory laws.
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Trade union rights are human rights 9 October 2014 Thousands take to the streets in protest against students ‘disappeared’ by Mexican Police
Outrage across Mexico continues to grow as frantic search efforts are ongoing to find 43 students taken by Mexican municipal police alleged to be controlled by drug cartels in the city of Iguala.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 9 October 2014 Photo action: a mosaic of teaching situations
On World Teachers’ Day, Education International celebrated the raffle of its first world-wide photo action. The awards have gone out to Russia, Trinidad and Tobago, and Ghana.
Photo action: a mosaic of teaching situations