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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 9 September 2014 Six cities, six continents, one campaign: quality education goes global
When Education International embarks on its global Unite for Quality Education Campaign culmination tour this week, education leaders, teachers and students from around the world will push quality education to the top of the agenda.
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Equity and inclusion 9 September 2014 Bolivia: New child labour law leaves children exposed
In the face of international conventions protecting children from exploitation, Bolivia’s new labour law seeks to regulate rather than eliminate the practice.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 9 September 2014 Education policies promoting equity lead to growth and prosperity, says latest OECD report
As the world exits the economic crisis, a new report argues that education and skills will be critical to restoring long-term growth, tackling unemployment, promoting competitiveness, and nurturing more inclusive and cohesive societies.
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Standards and working conditions 8 September 2014 Positioning School Leadership in the Agenda for School Reforms
EPNoSL is organizing its next Peer Learning Activity (PLA) in Nice, France. Interested stakeholders are welcomed to join the event that will be attended by members of the wider school leadership community, including policy makers, educational leaders (school principals and head teachers, and teacher educators), researchers, representatives of professional associations,...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 September 2014 Literacy and sustainable development go hand-in-hand
To highlight how a literate society paves the way toward a positive future, UNESCO is making sustainable development the focus and theme to mark this year’s International Literacy Day.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 September 2014 Join the European Culmination event of the Unite for Quality Education campaign in Brussels on 22 September 2014!
On 22 September 2014, the EI initiative Unite for Quality Education Campaign reaches its peak in the European Region. On this special day, ETUCE is organising a Public Hearing on the Future of Quality Education, hosted by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in Brussels, to celebrate one year...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 September 2014 New Brochure: Can Europe still be saved?
In the new brochure “Can Europe still be saved?” leading representatives of German trade unions explore the fault lines and the austerity-policy orientation of Europe from different angles.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 September 2014 High level conference on Roma inclusion
The European Commission convenes a high level international conference in Brussels on 2 and 3 October 2014 to take stock of progress and lessons learned in integrating Roma at local level with the support of the ROMACT programme.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 September 2014 ETUCE opinion on European Parliament reports on implementation
The European Parliament is fully back to work. Its Committees have been formed anew. One of the first topics they addressed, is the fundamental issue of the European Semester for economic policy coordination: the implementation of 2014 priorities. In August, the European Parliament Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)...
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Equity and inclusion 8 September 2014 Coming Up: ETUCE Conference on teacher union actions on gender equality in times of austerity
The closing conference of the ETUCE project Promoting gender equality within teacher trade unions and in the teaching profession II – Implementing and reinforcing teacher trade union actions on gender equality in times of austerity convenes in Sofia on 25 and 26 September 2014.
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Union growth 5 September 2014 Back to school campaign remains critical in a world of conflict
As children around the world prepare to head back to school the unprecedented number of ongoing emergencies are devastating education systems for millions of children.
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Union growth 4 September 2014 Paraguay: Excessive repression against teachers
When teachers in Paraguay took to the streets last month to demand a decent budget for public education, they were met with police force rather than having their calls for quality education heard.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 4 September 2014 Burkina Faso: EI helps teachers build quality tools
Developing suitable teaching and learning tools was the focus of a very successful Book Development Workshop (BDW) run by the Pan African Teachers’ Centre (PATC), the Professional Development Unit within the EI Africa Region (EIRAF) in Burkina Faso recently.
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Trade union rights are human rights 4 September 2014 Norwegian teachers claim victory as strike ends
The teachers’ strike in Norway has ended after two months with a new agreement reached between the Union of Education Norway (UEN) and employers. At its height at the beginning of this school year, nearly 8,000 UEN members were out on strike.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 3 September 2014 Tanzania: State plans to cut public school fees
Education International (EI) welcomes the Tanzanian Government’s plan to eliminate school fees for public secondary schools to ensure that all students successfully leaving primary school have access to higher education.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 3 September 2014 Tanzania: State plans to cut public school fees
Education International (EI) welcomes the Tanzanian Government’s plan to eliminate school fees for public secondary schools to ensure that all students successfully leaving primary school have access to higher education.
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Union growth 29 August 2014 Syrian refugees get chance at education in Jordan
The latest back-to-school campaign aims at sending 300.000 Syrian refugee children into the classroom this autumn, helping them work toward a positive future.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 29 August 2014 Sweden: Education union’s President to promote quality education and teachers on national tour
In September, Lärarförbundet’s President and Education International (EI) Vice-President for Europe Eva-Lis Sirén will embark on a campaigning tour, visiting six cities in five days.
Sweden: Education union’s President to promote quality education and teachers on national tour