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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 19 October 2012 Investing in education to get out of the crisis
Passionate discussions were held at the EI Education in Crisis Seminar, organised on 18-19 October in Brussels, Belgium. Participants from education unions worldwide and international organisations reiterated the need for strong teacher unions and investing in education to sustainably recover from the current economic and financial crisis.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 18 October 2012 EI leaders give directions for education unions in times of crisis
EI is holding its 40th Executive Board (ExBo) meeting in Brussels, Belgium, from16-18 October. Global education union leaders will discuss about the impact of the economic crisis on education.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 17 October 2012 Protecting quality public education in a time of crisis
Education unions from across the globe meet for the ‘Education in Crisis’ Seminar on 18-19 October in Brussels.
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Union growth 16 October 2012 EI Executive Board condemns the attempted assassination of Malala Yousafzai
At its meeting in Brussels from 16-18 October, the Executive Board of Education International, which represents 30 million teachers and other educators worldwide, condemned, in the strongest possible terms, the shooting by the Taliban of the fourteen year old Pakistani girl, Malala Yousafzai, because of her efforts to promote girls...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 16 October 2012 EFA Progress stalling: 2012 Global Monitoring Report
Education for All (EFA) progress is stalling less than three years before 2015, the target date for achieving EFA and the Millennium Development Goals, shows the 2012 EFA Global Monitoring Report (GMR). The report, entitled “Youth and skills: Putting education to work”, has a specific focus on skills necessary for...
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Trade union rights are human rights 15 October 2012 EI strongly condemns attack on school girls
Malala Yousafzai, a 14-year old school girl and a campaigner for girls’ right to education was attacked on October 9 on her way home from school in Mingora, north-western Pakistan. Two gun men boarded a bus full of school girls, asked for Malala by name, shot her in the head...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 October 2012 Lebanon: educators join strike with public sector
EI national affiliates, the Ligue des professeurs de l’enseignement secondaire public du Liban (LPESPL), the Teachers’ Syndicate of Lebanon (TSL), and the League of Public Technical and Vocational Teachers (CETO), were joined by the public sector in their strike on 10 October. Teachers' unions and public sector employees in Lebanon...
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Equity and inclusion 11 October 2012 EI advocates for the rights of girls
The International Day of the Girl Child, celebrated annually from this year on October 11th, is an opportunity for EI and teachers’ unions to harness their advocacy and programmatic work to enhance the rights of the girl child.
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Standards and working conditions 10 October 2012 World Teachers’ Day celebrations pay tribute to teachers globally
On 5 October, many celebrations took place around the world to pay tribute to the crucial role that teachers play in their communities and society.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 9 October 2012 Global leaders demand immediate attention to children’s education in crisis zones
Global leaders from governments, international organisations and civil society have demanded attention about children's education in crisis countries. The call came on 24 September when EI participated in a side event organised by the Global Partnership for Education prior to the UN General Assembly.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 October 2012 Global call for decent work for young people
Since 2008, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has been organising the World Day for Decent Work (WDDW) on 7 October. This is a global day of action to remind governments across the globe that they must prioritise decent work to stimulate economic growth and build a new global economy...
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Union growth 5 October 2012 Honouring the courage of persecuted teacher unionists in Colombia
World Teachers’ Day is an opportunity to appreciate the tireless dedication and contribution of teachers to quality education. Unfortunately, in Colombia, teachers live in constant fear of being killed or maimed.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 5 October 2012 UNESCO launches eAtlas of teachers
At the occasion of World Teachers’ Day, UNESCO has released its eAtlas of Teachers, which helps visualise the gaps in the supply and demand for teachers at national and global levels. Already, it reveals that massive teacher shortages are quietly looming in countries struggling to provide every child with quality...
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Equity and inclusion 4 October 2012 Aob/GEW/EI Conference: combatting child labour through the right to education
Strengthening the teacher unions’ role in combatting child labour and achieving Education For All is the aim of the International Conference on Child Labour, convened by EI and GEW, a teacher union in Germany and AOb from the Netherlands, on 5-7 October 2012 in Berlin, Germany.
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Standards and working conditions 4 October 2012 Take a stand for teachers and education unions on October 5th!
At the occasion of World Teachers’ Day (WTD) on 5 October, EI will continue to stress the value of educators in the world. It will also highlight the need to pay more attention, on WTD and throughout the year, to the fact that education organisations are important actors in any...
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Union growth 4 October 2012 Turkey: International trade unions support Turkish workers’ rights
Representatives of the European trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE), Education International’s European region, are part of an international trade union delegation, together with representatives of the European Federation of Public Service Unions (EFPSU), the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), present in Ankara...
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Standards and working conditions 4 October 2012 Launch of the Reading Changed my Life Photo and Video Contest
The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) launched the Reading Changed My Life Photo and Video Contest on 7 September 2012. It already celebrated 100 submissions from 36 different countries!
Launch of the Reading Changed my Life Photo and Video Contest