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Fighting the commercialisation of education 20 November 2020 The World Depends on Public Services and Public Services Require Political Will.
Rosa Pavanelli, David Edwards
As G20 world leaders meet, it is time for a fundamental overhaul of global investment policy to build for the future. That future depends on public services and the people who provide them. Crisis has brought recognition to “front-line” workers, public and private, who are both visible and essential. However,...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2 October 2020 #WorldTeachersDay | Lessons from the Pandemic: “Teachers and the Public Sector Wage Bill”, by David Archer.
David Archer
The IMF is 75 years old but still has a lot to learn. They need a well trained professional teacher to explain some basic truths. You can’t commit to ambitious development goals and then impose austerity. You can’t constrain public sector wage bills and then worry that countries have shortages...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 10 June 2020 “Coronavirus hits Canada’s campuses”, by David Robinson.
David Robinson
As in other parts of the world, the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly and radically upended universities and colleges in Canada. Across the country, campuses are deserted, teaching has migrated to virtual platforms, and important research has been put on hold.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 14 April 2020 Emergency debt relief for all low-income countries now!
The International Monetary Fund Executive Board announced yesterday that it has approved immediate debt relief to 25 of the world’s poorest countries to help address the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Trade union rights are human rights 8 April 2020 Education International and global union partners call on international finance institutions to coordinate an urgent and equitable response to the COVID-19 crisis
In a statement released ahead of the (virtual) Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, Global Unions including Education International have called on the international finance institutions (IFIs) to take action for economic stimulus, debt relief and healthcare.
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20 December 2019 Public education in Greece
Aspects and Trends of Emerging Privatization
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 November 2019 “Impoverishing the poor: the deficiencies of the World Bank’s learning poverty goal”, by Dennis Sinyolo.
Dennis Sinyolo
On 17 October, the World Bank announced a new global target for education aimed at reducing ‘learning poverty’ - the percentage of children who are unable to read by the age of 10 – in half by 2030. The World Bank’s initiative is a step in the wrong direction, and...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 7 November 2019 #SABERexposed “Engaging the Private Sector”, by Brendan DeCoster.
Brendan DeCoster
As part of the blog series critiquing the World Bank’s Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER) initiative, I examine some of the more problematic aspects of the Bank’s claims that 1) they are representing a consensus on engagement of the private sector and 2) that they are not pursuing...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 9 September 2019 DRC: EI and its affiliates campaign for free public education
While they welcomed the news that state sector primary education was to become completely free at the point of use when the government announced its decision to do away with school fees, teachers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have reiterated their concerns about teachers’ salaries and the need...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 13 August 2019 “For the integrity and status of Higher Education and Technical and Vocational Education and Training”, by Fred van Leeuwen.
Fred van Leeuwen
Higher education is indispensable if we are to maintain a foundation of facts, knowledge and free discussion in society. TVET reaches very many young people and adults and has a key education function in addition to providing skills training. Both are under attack as many, public and private, innocently or...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 17 July 2019 #OffTrack #5: Financing Education in Ghana: Operationalising “Ghana Beyond Aid” to Deliver SDG 4?
Today, Ghana will be presenting a Voluntary National Review (VNR) of its progress towards achieving the SDGs.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 February 2019 Australia: Entrenched inequality in public school funding
The Australian Education Union (AEU) has reacted to a report into the provision of childcare, education and training: highlighting that pubic authorities favour private schools over public schools when it comes to funding, and demanding that an end be put to the Morrison government’s inequal treateent of public schools.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 October 2018 World Bank World Development Report 2019: Once again, the “cure” is worse than the disease
The World Bank has just issued its World Development Report for 2019. Although slightly improved in some places from earlier drafts, it is still the same approach.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 10 October 2018 Unions act to secure tax justice to secure workers’ rights
Addressing tax avoidance by multinational companies was the focus of trade unions from all over the world at a recent seminar.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 10 October 2018 EI General Secretary critiques the World Bank’s Human Capital Index
On the eve of the launch of the World Bank’s Human Capital Index (HCI), David Edwards, General Secretary of Education International, critiques the new global metric.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 10 October 2018 Global support for education access and quality at UNGA
At the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, USA, in September, Education International (EI) ensured that quality education and teachers’ voices were part of the conversation among the world leaders present.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 20 September 2018 Education Outcomes Fund for Africa and the Middle East: is it a game changer?
Keith Lewin
As plans for the establishment of the Education Outcomes Fund develop, Keith Lewin reviews the fund’s design and, highlighting various critical issues, questions the central claim that it will be a gamechanger for education outcomes.
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Climate action and literacy 10 July 2018 The quest for public funding for education and SDG 4, by Antonia Wulff
Antonia Wulff
For about 12 hours there was a target on education financing in what was about to become Agenda 2030. It was proposed in the very last round of negotiations of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals and it did not take long before it was shot down; member...
The quest for public funding for education and SDG 4, by Antonia Wulff