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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 3 May 2013 Education For All: teachers’ assessment of 25 years of promises
According to the Global Monitoring Report 2012, the education goals agreed on in 1990 at the Jomtien World Conference on Education for All will not be achieved by 2015. Six goals were agreed to by the international community and that commitment was renewed in the Dakar World Education Forum in...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 3 May 2013 Spain: Public education strike over education cuts and reforms
The Plataforma Estatal por la Escuela Pública (State Platform for Public Education) has called for a strike on 9 May at every level of education in Spain. The platform is made up of EI’s affiliated trade unions - FECCOO, FETE-UGT, STEs and CSI-CSIF - as well as student organisations and...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2 May 2013 Côte d'Ivoire: Unions call for an end to indefinite strike
The Syndicat national des enseignants du second degré de Côte d’Ivoire (SYNESCI) and the Syndicat national des enseignants du primaire public de Côte d'Ivoire (SNEPPCI), both EI national affiliates, have called for an end to the public-sector teachers’ strike in primary and secondary schools. The teachers have been on an...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 30 April 2013 Denmark: Union dismay as Government intervention ends teachers' lock-out
The lock-out of teachers in Denmark has ended after the Danish government intervened in the industrial action between the Danish Union of Teachers (DLF) and the municipalities’ association (Local Government Denmark – LGDK [KL]). The DLF is an affiliate of EI.
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Equity and inclusion 29 April 2013 Mali: Child labour under the spotlight
The Syndicat National de l’Education et de la Culture UNTM (SNEC-UNTM), EI’s affiliate in Mali, organised a very successful national workshop on combating child labour from 14 to 26 April in Bamako.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 29 April 2013 Education Minister and teachers’ organisations of Honduras must resume dialogue
The Education Minister and the teachers’ organisations of Honduras should as soon as possible resume discussions on the future of the Honduran public school system. Their dialogue should be based on mutual respect and should aim at improving quality education for all children. This was the message conveyed by EI...
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Union growth 29 April 2013 Education Minister and Teachers Organisations of Honduras must resume dialogue
The Education Minister and the teachers organisations of Honduras should as soon as possible resume discussions on the future of the Honduran public school system. Their dialogue should be based on mutual respect and should aim at improving quality education for all children. This was the message conveyed by EI...
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Equity and inclusion 25 April 2013 Same-sex marriage victories in France, New Zealand and Uruguay
EI welcomes the record of victories on marriage equality in three regions and calls on unions to act towards equality. France became the 14th country to legalise same-sex marriage on 24 April, New Zealand became the first country in the Asia-Pacific region to do so on the eve of 16...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 April 2013 EI engages in high-level dialogue on quality education
EI President Susan Hopgood, General Secretary Fred van Leeuwen, Deputy General Secretary David Edwards and Executive Board member Marième Sakho Dansokho have participated in a series of high-level meetings in Washington DC, USA, at World Bank-International Monetary Fund (IMF) Spring Meetings, on the Global Education First Initiative (GEFI). They have...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 April 2013 Blog Action Day: Mobilise for quality education now!
Blog Action Day, which takes place every year on October 16, is a big chance for high visibility for one important global topic, as bloggers from different countries, interests and languages blog about it on the same day. Vote now to make sure that education becomes this topic!
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 April 2013 USA: Union joins global education campaign
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), one of EI’s national affiliates, has joined in the Global Action Week (GAW) led by the Global Campaign for Education, and held from 21-27 April. The theme of this year’s GAW is “Every Child Needs a Teacher”.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 19 April 2013 Kenya: stop teacher shortage now, say education unionists
Officials from the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT), one of EI's Kenyan affiliates, have condemned the severe teacher gap in the country, urging national authorities to remedy the understaffing.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 19 April 2013 Every Child Needs a Teacher!
Education International (EI) and its affiliates worldwide take part in the Global Action Week (GAW) activities to remind governments, the international community and other stakeholders that every child needs a qualified teacher. Led and created by the Global Campaign for Education (GCE), of which EI is a founding member, this...
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Equity and inclusion 19 April 2013 Canada: working to end violence against women and girls
EI’s affiliate, the Canadian Federation of Teachers (CTF), held its 2013 Women’s Issues Symposium from 17-18 April in Ottawa. This year's theme focused on violence against women and girls. In Canada, violence against women and girls is all too prevalent. It targets all groups of women, across age, ethnic, class...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 19 April 2013 USA: Unions file federal lawsuit over teacher-evaluation procedure
The National Education Association (NEA), an EI national affiliate, together with the Florida Education Association (FEA), has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the evaluation of teachers based on the standardised test scores of students they do not teach or based on subjects they do not teach.
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Standards and working conditions 18 April 2013 Egypt: First steps towards long-term support for education unions
EI initiated on March 16, 2013 the first of its 4 forums with education unions in Egypt . Over 90 activists from independent organizations of teachers, university, and educational workers met in Cairo, Egypt to discuss challenges facing workers in the education sector and how to strengthen democratic unions. They...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 18 April 2013 EI launches the Organising Network
EI officially launched the Organising Network (OrgNet) on 8-9 April in Washington D.C, US, as mandated by EI’s 6th World Congress. The aim of the network is to engage in strategic and targeted organising campaigns to grow and strengthen inclusive education unions. The launch event was hosted by EI’s affiliates...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 17 April 2013 CSFEF: Fighting threats to quality education
The Bureau of the Francophone Trade Union Committee for Education and Training (CSFEF) met in Chisinau, Moldova, from 11-13 April. The meeting was preceded by a symposium where the impact of the current economic situation on public education, in each of the countries represented, was discussed.
CSFEF: Fighting threats to quality education