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Climate action and literacy 6 September 2017 Pacific education unions work to implement the 2030 Agenda
Teacher union leaders have kick-started the first regional consultation workshop on the Education 2030 Agenda to reflect on ways to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in the Pacific.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 30 August 2017 Finland: leading education organisations launch institution for high education and culture standards
Together, the education union Opetusalan Ammattijärjestö, the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Finnish National Agency for Education have launched an educational institution aiming to safeguard high education standards in the country.
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Climate action and literacy 25 August 2017 For-profit schools are cashing in on UN goals
For-profit education, rather than free widespread access to quality public education, has so far been the beneficiary of Sustainable Development Goal 4 as countries work to fulfil its requirements.
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Climate action and literacy 24 July 2017 Young education unionists determined to take the lead on future of quality education
Young education trade unionists asserted their commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals and to hold governments accountable for ensuring quality education for all at a recent workshop in Brussels, Belgium.
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Climate action and literacy 29 June 2017 Education International puts teachers’ needs at the centre of sustainable development
With the United Nations striving to increase sustainable development education around the world, Education International President Susan Hopgood called for more “tools, time and trust” to strengthen the teaching profession and deliver on the SDGs.
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Climate action and literacy 29 June 2017 Education leaders send urgent message to the G20
The world's biggest players in education are sending an urgent message to the leaders of the G20, meeting July 7-8 in Hamburg, Germany: a better future for all demands a bold increase in education financing.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 28 June 2017 UN event on education to put sustainable development into clear focus
Education International takes centre stage in New York as leaders from around the world meet at the UN to make sustainable development education a global priority.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 26 June 2017 GMR Policy Paper 31 : Aid to education is stagnating and not going to countries most in need
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Climate action and literacy 30 May 2017 Unions push for inclusion to meet national and international development commitments
The Fiji Teachers Union has reaffirmed its commitment to build a strong platform to implement the Sustainable Development Goal 4 by involving all stakeholders at all levels of policy formulation, implementation, monitoring, and review.
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Climate action and literacy 24 May 2017 Increased funding needed for climate change education and training
An insufficient allocation of resources to climate change education has drawn the ire of Education International during a recent contribution to the Dialogue on Action for Climate Empowerment, Education.
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Climate action and literacy 18 May 2017 Work underway to improve teacher training on climate change education
Education International has injected the voice of teachers into a recent UN climate change event, highlighting the need for and ways to better train teachers to improve greater climate awareness curricula.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 4 May 2017 Building human rights education through global teacher networks
John Heffernan
A few years ago, calling for a more robust worldwide embrace of human rights education by invoking the Holocaust, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid bin Ra'ad said in a speech given at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum: “Eight of the 15 people who planned the Holocaust in 1942...
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Union growth 1 May 2017 This May Day, why not try solidarity?
As the occasion to celebrate and reaffirm the value and values of trade unions, from which their principles continue to inspire, today must also serve as a lens to carefully examine our societies and institutions.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 29 April 2017 Education’s Promise for Gender Equality (2/2)
Gender equality is a stand-alone goal under the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but is also a key aspect of the SDG 4 Quality Education. In light of the forthcoming 2018 World Development Report (WDR) and the influence of the World Bank in shaping global narratives on education...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 24 April 2017 Education’s Promise as a Universal Human Right (1/2)
In 2018, the World Bank will release its first World Development Report to focus exclusively on education, Realizing the Promise of Education for Development (working title). The 2018 WDR Concept Note is available on the World Bank website, and the Report co-directors have been conducting focus-group type consultations seeking feedback...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 22 April 2017 Educators globally celebrate science as a pillar of human freedom and prosperity
Education unions across the world are joining the March for Science today, celebrating scientific research, academic freedom, and freedom of thought.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 April 2017 Competencies for Today and Tomorrow
Nelly P. Stromquist
At a recent education conference, I was invited to participate in a panel entitled, “Problematizing future competencies: Learning development in the unknown 21st century.” Something about the title generated resistance in me, so instead of offering suggestions on “competencies” for the “unknown” 21st century, I problematized the theme of the...
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Climate action and literacy 10 March 2017 Standardised tests and Global Citizenship: a flawed relationship?
The UNESCO Week for Peace and Sustainable Development is a reminder that governments have committed to universal education for sustainable development, global citizenship and human rights, a commitment made when governments signed up to the Sustainable Development Goals.
Standardised tests and Global Citizenship: a flawed relationship?