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Trade union rights are human rights 15 January 2021 Germany: Unions call for government clarity and laud work of education staff in remote education
While remote education has resumed in 2021, German education unions are calling on public authorities to support educators’ outstanding performance in ensuring access to quality education for all and well-organised and designed exams.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 16 March 2020 Brazil: National strike in education gains support from other sectors
The Confederación Nacional de Trabajadores de Educación (CNTE), Education International affiliate in Brazil, has called a major nationwide strike in education, protesting the policies of the Bolsonaro administration. The trade union centre in Brazil - Central Única de los trabajadores de Brasil (CUT) – and other organisations have announced they...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 October 2019 #youngteachers “To teach, is to commit”, by Khalid El Mahroug (SLFP, Belgium).
Khalid El Mahroug
Teaching is just like life: always full of surprises. Too often, however, these surprises give rise to frustration, disappointment and demotivation. But why, you might ask? It’s simple: education is one of society’s essential foundations and we all know that we must invest in it through well thought out and...
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Climate action and literacy 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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Union growth 31 May 2019 Members of New Zealand teacher unions unite in largest teachers' strike in New Zealand history
Almost 50,000 New Zealand teachers take to the streets to advocate for a higher education budget.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 11 April 2019 It’s time for the IFIs to do some spring cleaning
As the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund enter into this year’s Spring Meetings, Education International has released a statement that calls for these international financial institutions to evaluate the efficacy of their work and to take new approaches, ensuring that that their policy and lending aligns fully with...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 14 March 2019 Iraq: Kurdistan’s education unionists take stock of obstacles to quality education system
Education unionists from the Kurdistan region of Iraq have reaffirmed the need for public authorities to allocate adequate funding for quality education and teachers.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 1 March 2019 Australia: education union and activists will make the 2019 federal election the ‘education election’
At their Federal conference, Australian Education Union’ leaders and activists welcomed the commitment made by the Labour party to greatly increase funding for public education, and reaffirmed their determination to ensure that the upcoming federal election focus on education issues.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 9 January 2019 Zimbabwe: teachers strike over pay as currency crisis deepens
As talks with the government failed to reach an agreement, Zimbabwean teachers are striking to press their government to pay their salaries with U.S. dollars.
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Union growth 3 December 2018 Increasing funding for inclusive education: a benefit for all, of value to all!, by Claude Carroué
Cheerful pupils, playing in the playground, taking turns on a swing, in the shelter of pre-fabricated buildings currently used by several classes until new buildings under construction are operational. At the school in Bempt, in the Brussels Region commune of Forest, the enthusiasm for a school focussed on the inclusion...
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Leading the profession 10 October 2018 "What’s wrong with the World Bank’s Human Capital Index?", by David Edwards
David Edwards
The Human Capital Index is a measurement tool created by the World Bank to influence countries to invest more in health and education. With increased education financing a longstanding key demand of Education International and so crucial to achieve SDG4, one might wonder why I am sceptical about this index?...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 28 September 2018 Argentina: private interests are critically undermining public education
A new study reports on the worrying expansion of private interests in the public education sector in Argentina and its undermining effects on equity and quality education.
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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...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 5 April 2018 Australia: Educators’ campaign for public schools’ fair funding
The Australian Education Union is demanding that public schools are properly resourced by public authorities with the launch of a new phase of its schools funding campaign – “Fair Funding Now!”
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 23 March 2018 Launch of Education Workforce Initiative
Education International has welcomed the launch of the Education Workforce Initiative by the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity.
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Standards and working conditions 1 February 2018 #FundEducation: Teachers are essential to achieving quality education
As the Global Partnership for Education meets for its Replenishment Conference in Dakar, Senegal, Education International leaders have stressed the importance of teachers in achieving quality education for all and in meeting the many challenges affecting education systems worldwide.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 19 January 2018 Education financing crisis sorely missed in World Bank’s Report
Education International has made the voice of the world’s educators heard loud and clear at the Belgian launch of the World Bank’s World Development Report.
Education financing crisis sorely missed in World Bank’s Report