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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 19 February 2014 Unions and civil society unite for quality education
Education quality improves when teachers, and their unions, are supported; it deteriorates when they are not. This is one of the key findings of this year's Global Monitoring Report (GMR), which was launched at a series of events across the globe recently.
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Trade union rights are human rights 19 February 2014 Algeria: Fourth week of strikes in education sector
A widespread strike in the education sector in Algeria has entered its fourth week, despite an intervention by the Prime Minister to bring it to an end. The strike, which started on 25 January, has involved members of the National Union of Education and Training Staff (UNPEF) and the National...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 14 February 2014 Education unions to align messages with actions globally
Communicators and organisers from EI’s member affiliates came together in Brussels from 3-5 February to discuss strategic approaches and develop joint actions to campaign for the right to free, universal, quality education at national, regional and global level.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 13 February 2014 Read past the headlines of the GMR!
UNESCO’s Global Monitoring Report is a detailed look at the importance of quality teaching that deserves careful consideration as the world considers the way forward toward quality education for all.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 13 February 2014 Importance of Literacy and lifelong learning stressed at High-Level Discussion
Many participants, among them representatives from EI’s affiliates globally, were present at the High-Level Discussion: Education in the Post-2015 Development Agenda organised by the Mission of Norway to the European Union (EU) and UNESCO on 5 February in Brussels, Belgium. Debates underlined the need for the teacher organisations’ voice to...
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Equity and inclusion 12 February 2014 Philippines: action plan for gender equality
EI, together with one Swedish affiliate Lärarförbundet, organised an evaluation and planning meeting for its Philippine member organisations in Manila, Philippines, from 30 January until 1 February. Twenty participants, i.e. five women leaders from four EI affiliates in the Philippines - ACT, FFW, TOPPS and SMP-NATOW - took part in...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 11 February 2014 Julia Gillard, new GPE Board Chair
The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) has appointed former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard to be the new Chair of its Board of Directors. Gillard will take on a new role leading fundraising efforts to provide education to 57 million out-of-school children worldwide. The GPE is the only multilateral partnership...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 10 February 2014 Australia: Gonski campaign hits the road
EI’s affiliate, the Australian Education Union (AEU) continues to pursue the objectives of EI’s Unite for Quality Education through its I give a Gonski campaign. For the next five weeks until 18 March, four vans will cover 23,000 km in Australia pressuring the continent’s government to deliver on quality education...
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Equity and inclusion 7 February 2014 The European Parliament calls for EU roadmap to protect fundamental rights of LGBTI people
On 4 February 2014, the European Parliament adopted a resolution to safeguard the fundamental rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people. The resolution calls upon the EU to make a roadmap to make fundamental rights a reality of LGBTI people.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 7 February 2014 European elections 2014: a turning point for the European democracy built on quality education
A new initiative has been launched by the ETUCE to give candidates to European elections the opportunity to pledge to the ETUCE 10 key messages on “What is needed to improve the Quality of Education in Europe”.
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Trade union rights are human rights 7 February 2014 Seminar Wrap Up: Gender and Occupational Health
The presentations held at the ETUI seminar in Porto on 23 and 24 January are online now. The seminar had the title "His and hers: justice and health in employment and the workplace" and was conducted in collaboration with Porto University.
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Trade union rights are human rights 7 February 2014 Supporting Victims of Data Abuse
The latest report from the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), ‘Access to data protection remedies in EU Member States’, shows that victims of data abuse often lack the understanding about data protection and the authorities that serve to help them.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 7 February 2014 Defend Public Education: from cradle to grave
UCU held a one day conference open to all its members on Saturday 1 February 2014. This important conference was about the defence of public education in the so-called age of austerity. This conference perfectly complements the aims of the Unite for Quality Education Campaign.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 7 February 2014 The functioning of the troika in crisis-hit countries: a new report from ETUC
New ETUC Report on Troika activities confirms destructive effects in Cyprus, Greece, Ireland and Portugal. Based on ETUC investigation into the activities of the Troika of international leaders (EC-ECB-IMF) in selected countries, the Report condemns the takeover operated by the Troika over national elected governments.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 6 February 2014 EI Education Support Personnel Task Force meets in Brussels
Education International’s (EI) newly established task force on Education Support Personnel met for the first time in Brussels on 28-29 January 2014. The task force, composed of representatives of 10 affiliates, will advise EI on issues around the status, rights and conditions of education support personnel.
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Equity and inclusion 6 February 2014 India: Unions develop Action Plan for gender equity
A South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Women’s Network Planning Meeting has been held in New Delhi, India. Three union leaders from EI affiliate All India Secondary Teachers’ Federation (AISTF) National Office, six AISTF representatives from the Indian Maharashtra State, as well as six AISTF representatives from the Indian...
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Equity and inclusion 4 February 2014 Joint PSI-EI statement on LGBT rigths violations
EI and Public Services International (PSI) join LGBT groups and other human rights defenders in condemning increasing intolerance and attacks on the rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people. Governments the world over appear to be abdicating their duty to protect and advance the human rights of all...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 3 February 2014 Inequality keeps too many children out of school in South Asia
A new study has revealed that 27 million children aged 5-13 are out of school in four countries -Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka - in South Asia. “Out-of-school children have little opportunity to learn and develop and this has an unfortunate impact on the rest of their lives,” said...
Inequality keeps too many children out of school in South Asia