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  1. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 10 July 2014

    Australia: Senate backs Gonski funding for full six-year period

    The Australian Education Union has called on Prime Minister Tony abbot to follow the recommendations of a Senate inquiry and reverse his decision to abandon the final two years of Gonski funding.

    Australia: Senate backs Gonski funding for full six-year period
  2. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 9 July 2014

    Australia: Cuts to Gonski funding detrimental to public education

    The Australian government’s cuts to Gonski funding will rip AUS$2.67 billion out of public schools, equivalent to 20,000 teachers, according to new research highlighted by the Australian Education Union (AEU), one of Education International’s national affiliates.

    Australia: Cuts to Gonski funding detrimental to public education
  3. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 July 2014

    Tajikistan: Union builds access to quality inclusive schools in remote regions

    Teachers are working towards increasing access and opportunities to quality education in the country’s dense mountainous areas where children and especially girls are denied a place in the classroom.

    Tajikistan: Union builds access to quality inclusive schools in remote regions
  4. Equity and inclusion 7 July 2014

    Locked out: Privatised education leaves girls and women behind

    A new global report shows that girls and women are suffering the consequences of rising privatised education around the world, leaving them on the outside of the classroom looking in.

    Locked out: Privatised education leaves girls and women behind
  5. Equity and inclusion 7 July 2014

    Locked out: Privatised education leaves girls and women behind

    A new global report shows that girls and women are suffering the consequences of rising privatised education around the world, leaving them on the outside of the classroom looking in.

    Locked out: Privatised education leaves girls and women behind
  6. Trade union rights are human rights 7 July 2014

    Lithuania: ETUCE strikes deal with Prime Minister

    Raising their voices to be heard loud and clear, thousands of teachers demonstrated in front of government offices to put an end to five years of salary freezes in the education sector.

    Lithuania: ETUCE strikes deal with Prime Minister
  7. Union renewal and development 5 July 2014

    United States: three women to lead NEA

    The National Education Association (NEA) has elected a new leadership during its 93rd Representative Assembly in Denver, Colorado. Women with Latino and African American backgrounds hold the three top positions.

    United States: three women to lead NEA
  8. Leading the profession 4 July 2014

    NEA launches campaign to end toxic testing

    The campaign for equity and against toxic testing is preparing to narrow its focus to target assessments and develop real accountability systems to improve education in the United States.

    NEA launches campaign to end toxic testing
  9. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 3 July 2014

    EI joins the NEA’s Rocky Mountain high party

    When nearly 9,000 educators get together in the middle of the summer from all over the United States, free of classroom discipline and lesson plan prep, you know it’s going to be a good party.

    EI joins the NEA’s Rocky Mountain high party
  10. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2 July 2014

    Transforming global citizenship from a buzzword into reality

    Being labelled a trend is common with music, clothes, and regrettable hairstyles, but when it comes to education trends can have a greater impact than an embarrassing high school graduation photo.

    Transforming global citizenship from a buzzword into reality
  11. Equity and inclusion 1 July 2014

    Fiji Teachers Union tackles child labour with education

    The World Day Against Child Labour threw the spotlight on Fiji, where collective efforts between unions and the International Labour Organization are aiming to use quality education to curb the country’s growing problem.

    Fiji Teachers Union tackles child labour with education
  12. Fighting the commercialisation of education 1 July 2014

    Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) is a threat to quality education

    Last week, Wikileaks released the secret draft text of the TiSA annex on financial services that has highlighted concerns about how the deal will be used to deregulate the financial sector at a time when stricter rules are needed to avoid a repeat of the recent crisis. Read ETUCE's Press...

    Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) is a threat to quality education
  13. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 1 July 2014

    New EURYDICE Report - Key Data on Early Childhood Education and Care in Europe

    'Key Data on Early Childhood Education and Care in Europe – 2014 Edition' highlights crucial access and quality issues concerning education and care of the youngest children in 32 European countries (37 education systems).

    New EURYDICE Report - Key Data on Early Childhood Education and Care in Europe
  14. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 1 July 2014

    Better vocational training options lead to reduce early school leaving

    Early findings of a Europe-wide Cedefop study of the effect of vocational education and training (VET) on the dropout rate reveal that this effect is largely positive. In countries where vocational pathways account for a large share of education and training, rates of early school leaving are below the EU...

    Better vocational training options lead to reduce early school leaving