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Union growth 6 April 2021 Europe: Study on industrial relations and privatisation
A study for the ETUCE, EI’s European region, showed the impact of market ideology and management practices and privatisation on industrial relations and social dialogue. In addition to looking at the evolution of EU policy in the past decade, researchers studied different methods and results of industrial relations in Francophone...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 11 March 2021 Taiwan: Education union denounces government for allowing profiteering by retirees
The National Teachers Association (NTA) insists that reemployment rights of public retirees in Taiwan should be respected but their right to a full pension should be limited.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 9 February 2021 “Post-pandemic reform of higher education: Market-first or purpose-first digital transformation?”, by Ben Williamson and Anna Hogan.
Ben Williamson, Anna Hogan
Educational technologies have become central to higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic. The state of emergency in tertiary systems worldwide has enabled private edtech companies, global tech businesses, and the networks of promoters backing them, to define the post-pandemic future of the university.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 13 January 2021 Taiwan: Private schools profit from government help, embezzle money, and leave teachers jobless
The National Teachers’ Association (NTA) and the Taiwan Higher Education Union (THE Union) have accused private schools of appropriating publicly funded property as job insecurity among teachers in the sector increases.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 11 January 2021 Taiwan: Education union highlights unequal conditions as it campaigns for quality education
The Taiwanese government is widening the social gap and encouraging the privatisation of the early childhood education (ECE) sector. That’s according to the National Teachers’ Association (NTA) in its yearly summary.
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Trade union rights are human rights 8 December 2020 WIPO’s missed opportunity to produce guidance on copyright exceptions hits education during pandemic
A legal instrument on copyright exceptions for the use of materials for teaching, learning, research, and the work of cultural heritage organisations is still not available. According to Education International, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) missed an opportunity at its recent Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR)...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 16 October 2020 “Privatisation tendencies in Dominican education: Heterarchy, network governance and new philanthropy”, by D. Brent Edwards Jr., Mauro C. Moschetti, Alejandro Caravaca.
Alejandro Caravaca, Mauro Moschetti, D. Brent Edwards Jr.
The privatisation of education is manifesting in increasingly complex ways. These range from the participation of private actors in the provision of education services to the incorporation of business logics in public education. To be sure, the variety of forms in which this phenomenon manifests presents challenges when it comes...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 16 October 2020 New Study Examines Privatisation of Education in the Dominican Republic
A new study published by Education International reveals the mechanisms that favour the privatisation of education in the Dominican Republic, exploring its impact on the education system and the right to quality education.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 15 October 2020 Liberia: Action plan to fight privatisation and strengthen education union
The National Teachers' Association of Liberia (NTAL) has set up an action plan to build on work done on fighting privatisation, as well as strengthening the education union.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 13 October 2020 IMF must support public investment and stop public sector wage bill constraints
Today, in a joint webinar with Action Aid and Public Services International, Education International called on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to stop advising countries to cut or freeze public wage bills.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 9 October 2020 Global Unions call upon the World Bank and the IMF to support public investment
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will hold their Annual Meetings on 16-18 October. The International Financial Institutions can play a critical role in ensuring that there is a real and sustainable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The International Trade Union Confederation and Global Union Federations, while...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 16 September 2020 Nigerian teachers strengthen campaign against commercialization and privatization of education
The COVID pandemic hasn't stopped the work of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) in the framework of Education International (EI)’s Global Campaign against commercialization and privatization of education.
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Standards and working conditions 26 August 2020 Togo: Education union calls for improvements to living and working conditions of private-sector teachers
The Fédération des syndicats de l'Éducation nationale (FESEN) has urged Togolese education ministers to tackle the issue of insecurity affecting teachers in the private sector so that “their ordeal can come to an end.”
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 21 August 2020 A question in the wilderness, by Joseph Jovellanos.
Joseph V. Jovellanos
A story was once told that after WWII, the then Emperor Hirohito of Japan called one of his soldiers and asked the question: “How many teachers survived?” This question is an acknowledgment by the emperor of the crucial role of teachers in building or re-building a nation. Without teachers, a...
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Future of work in education 10 July 2020 Edtech Pandemic Shock: New EI research launched on COVID-19 education commercialisation
Education International has launched groundbreaking new research which maps the extent of private actors’ influence in education since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The research has been commissioned as part of Education International's Global Response to the Commercialisation and Privatisation of Education.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 6 July 2020 “Online teaching and videoconferencing: how can teachers choose the most appropriate tools?”, by Steven Kolber.
Steven Kolber
Teachers are all scrambling onto remote learning (or distance learning, or continuous learning, or crisis learning, or the nomenclature of your area) to support and stay connected with their students during this isolating time. The unexpected nature of the events around COVID-19 and the different levels and speeds of responsiveness...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 22 June 2020 "Repairing the infrastructure of public education amidst the breakdown", by Sam Sellar
Sam Sellar
While trying to make sense of the crisis caused by COVID-19, two well-worn lines keep coming to mind. The first is attributed to Lenin, who apparently claimed, when describing the Russian Revolution, that ‘there are decades when nothing happens; and there are weeks when decades happens’.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 11 June 2020 Uruguay: Public education under threat
The new conservative government of Uruguay, that took office last March, has submitted a bill for urgent consideration (Ley de Urgente Consideración, or LUC) to Parliament that set off alarm bells amongst Uruguayan society for being deeply antidemocratic in form and substance. The urgent bill shows how the country is...
Uruguay: Public education under threat