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Union growth 23 October 2020 Extraordinary Global Education Meeting reaffirms commitments to SDG 4 and calls for accelerated funding and global solidarity
An extraordinary session of the UNESCO Global Education Meeting (GEM) took place today, 22 October. It was preceded by a technical meeting on the 20th devoted to policy preparation. The meeting focused on global priorities for recovery in education and accelerated action in order to make progress on achieving SDG...
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Trade union rights are human rights 20 October 2020 UNESCO prioritises post-COVID-19 education
Education in the current and post-COVID-19 world will be the focus of an extraordinary session of UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring Meeting (2020 GEM) on 22 October. Co-hosted by the Government of the United Kingdom, political leaders, policy makers, and global education actors will have an opportunity to agree on global...
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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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Trade union rights are human rights 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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Fighting the commercialisation of education 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 14 February 2020 Asia-Pacific: Education leaders highlight challenges around rights, climate, and privatisation
The Education International Asia-Pacific Regional Committee meeting focused on union responses to threats to human and trade union rights, the impact of climate change, and growing privatisation in education.
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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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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 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 3 December 2019 “Beyond regret: what’s needed to stay together”, by Mitsunori Hoshina.
Mitsunori Hoshina
I have learned much from children during my career as a teacher. I would like to share a lesson on inclusive education I learned from what happened to a girl student.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 27 November 2019 40th UNESCO General Conference: Teachers and educators at the core of achieving SDG 4
Education International and its member organisations have been active at UNESCO’s 40th General Conference, where teachers and educators were high on the agenda.
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Equity and inclusion 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 13 November 2019 Inclusion and mobility in higher education: a long road ahead
EI urged ministers to take action to make higher education more inclusive at the UNESCO general conference today.
Inclusion and mobility in higher education: a long road ahead