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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 13 October 2020 “Education leadership during the COVID 19 and beyond”, by Teopista Birungi Mayanja.
Teopista Birungi Mayanja
“Education leaders must have the will to release leadership to the teachers, the parents and students”, Andy Hargreaves.
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Standards and working conditions 12 October 2020 US$5 billion target of global education campaign spearheaded by UK and Kenya
The United Kingdom (UK) and Kenya will co-host a high-level summit of key global players and decision makers in 2021 to lead global action to educate every child.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 4 September 2020 GEM Report: “Lost generation” risk without post-pandemic rapid action on SDG 4
Today, 4 September, the Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM) released a policy paper entitled, “Act now: Reduce the impact of COVID-19 on the cost of achieving SDG 4”. The paper argues that acting rapidly as the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic will reduce costs that would otherwise be necessary...
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Democracy 5 May 2020 “The impact of COVID-19 on society in the Asia-Pacific region”, by Masaki Okajima.
Masaki Okajima
COVID-19 is spreading worldwide, impacting children, educators, parents and, most seriously, vulnerable people. The pandemic has affected over 1.5 billion learners in 192 countries in the world. School closures affect over 91% of the world’s enrolled student population and teaching personnel. Most countries in Asia-Pacific have been taking measures to...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 22 April 2020 “We need new ideas to ensure education responses to Covid-19 don’t harm those marginalized”, by Manos Antoninis.
Manos Antoninis
In the middle of the turmoil that the pandemic has caused, two perspectives are critical. First, the upheaval has thrown pre-existing inequalities into sharp relief. Second, the crisis is the backdrop to a crash course in moral philosophy: we are all faced with stark choices, as solutions that help some,...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 15 April 2020 “Coronavirus Curriculum”, by Felisa Tibbitts.
Felisa Tibbitts
The pandemic is stretching the limits of school systems’ abilities to deliver education with the assistance of technology. The struggles of local and national education systems are well documented, and leaders are scrambling to address an overwhelming set of inter-connected challenges to the well-being of students, teachers, staff and administrators...
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Climate action and literacy 20 February 2020 “Calling Educators to Action on Climate Crisis”, by Gustavo E. Fischman, Daniel Fischer, Iveta Silova and Jordan King.
Daniel Fischer, Jordan King, Gustavo E. Fischman, Iveta Silova
Across the globe, youth are acting with urgency and passion to challenge the inadequate response of global leaders to the climate crisis, aiming to propel action toward sustainability and justice. Thousands of young students on all continents are participating in school strikes and mobilizing for other related actions to call...
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Climate action and literacy 28 January 2020 Online tool tracks progress towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4
To mark the International Day of Education, the Global Education Monitoring Report has launched a new online interactive tool to explore progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 4 and policy priorities for 2030.
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Union renewal and development 24 January 2020 International Day of Education: the world needs another 69 million teachers
On the International Day of Education, unions warn that the world is not facing a global learning crisis, but a global education funding crisis. The only way to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 4 and ensure inclusive and equitable education for all is to fund free quality public education.
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Climate action and literacy 24 January 2020 “Learning for people, planet, prosperity and peace”, by Susan Hopgood.
Susan Hopgood
What is more exciting than helping a child discover the joy of learning and begin a life of exploration. What could be more important to the future than helping to understand and embrace the values that anchor decent, fair and democratic societies and that develop a resistance to hatred, bigotry,...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 December 2019 "Inclusive Schools as a Political and Social Rights Space", by Gabriela Sancho Mena.
Gabriela Sancho Mena
An inclusive public school must be a space where everyone has a place. It is a right that must help strengthen all skills and abilities and encompass all the diversities in our society. It must also be a place of opportunity, reflection, debate, participatory action, invention, questions, research; a secular,...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 20 November 2019 #CRC30 “Albania: Teachers’ unions working to realise the right to education for all children”, by Nevrus Kaptelli and Stavri Liko.
Stavri Liko, Nevrus Kaptelli
The Albanian Alliance of Education Trade Unions, comprising the Trade Union Federation of Education and Science of Albania (FSASH) and the Independent Trade Union of Albanian Education (SPASH-ITUEA), has been working since 2002 with different projects designed to increase school retention rates and promote inclusion of vulnerable students. Teachers have...
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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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Trade union rights are human rights 22 October 2019 “Education International. Eighth World Congress”, by John Bangs.
John Bangs
The online magazine ‘Education Journal’ recently published in its edition 385 a report of Education International’s eighth World Congress in Bangkok by EI Senior Consultant, John Bangs. Education Journal has agreed to its publication for Worlds of Education. It has been slightly edited for EI’s global audience.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 22 October 2019 Ghana: Education unions and civil society stand together to demand full funding of public education
Education International, ActionAid International, Africa Network Campaign on Education for All and the Global Campaign for Education are calling for African governments to invest in quality public education and teachers.
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Standards and working conditions 8 October 2019 Education unionists in Asia-Pacific put forward recommendations to advance SDG4 and professional teaching standards
At the Asia-Pacific regional consultative meeting of Education International affiliates, education union leaders adopted recommendations to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 4 and implement professional teaching standards.
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Climate action and literacy 27 September 2019 Education unionists speak at United Nations against climate change and for SDG implementation
Education International’s leaders joined advocates from across the globe convening at the United Nations General Assembly this week, amid crises including climate change and threats of armed conflict, as well as a growing concern about progress on the 2030 deadline for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Education unionists speak at United Nations against climate change and for SDG implementation