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Articles from Ivory Coast

  1. Trade union rights are human rights 14 October 2024

    Côte d’Ivoire: mass union action to demand respect for trade union rights

    After a series of general meetings, Côte d’Ivoire’s trade unions have called a three-day work stoppage for 15, 16, and 17 October 2024 to protest the unconstructive and unproductive dialogue between the unions and the public authorities over the last two years.

    Côte d’Ivoire: mass union action to demand respect for trade union rights
  2. Leading the profession 3 January 2024

    Empowering teachers: Learning Circles strengthen confidence in formative assessment in Côte d'Ivoire

    Throughout the last eleven months, thirty primary school teachers in Côte d'Ivoire used the reflective space provided by the Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment (T3LFA) project's structure to experiment with different formative assessment practices that meet student’s learning variability.

    Empowering teachers: Learning Circles strengthen confidence in formative assessment in Côte d'Ivoire
  3. Standards and working conditions 5 October 2023

    Africa honors its teachers, key transformation agents of education and the continent

    Several events were organised in different parts of Africa on World Teachers’ Day (WTD), October 5th, acknowledging the crucial role of teachers who provide the youth of the continent quality education and a peaceful, sustainable future. African Governments must invest in teachers, motivate, and support them.

    Africa honors its teachers, key transformation agents of education and the continent
  4. Leading the profession 27 September 2023

    Just the beginning: The first cycle of Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment in Côte d’Ivoire comes to an end

    Following the completion of seven workshops, three tutorials and two networking events, on the 26th and 27th of September 2023, Education International in partnership with SNEPPCI brought together all individuals involved in the Teacher-led Learning Circle for Formative Assessment (T3LFA) project in Côte d’Ivoire to exchange on, as well as...

    Just the beginning: The first cycle of Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment in Côte d’Ivoire comes to an end
  5. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 September 2023

    Education International meets with the Ministry of Education in Cote d’Ivoire to fight for formative assessment

    The 25th of September marks the first day of the 2023-2024 school year in Cote d’Ivoire. For the last seven years, the day has been one filled with ceremonies for students, teachers, and parents. This is because since 2016, the Ministry of Education has held official ceremonies in each of...

    Education International meets with the Ministry of Education in Cote d’Ivoire to fight for formative assessment
  6. Leading the profession 1 August 2023

    Teachers as change agents and knowledge creators

    Dr. David Frost

    The HertsCam Network is currently playing an enabling role in the ‘Teacher-Led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment’ project led by Educational International and funded by the Jacobs Foundation. At HertsCam, we are committed to ‘non-positional teacher leadership’ in which any teacher can be empowered and enabled to lead the development...

    Teachers as change agents and knowledge creators
  7. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 4 May 2023

    Ivory Coast: Teachers mobilise communities to end child labour

    In the rural region of Soubré, Côte d'Ivoire, teachers play a key role in the fight against child labour. Thanks to the training provided by the SYNADEEPCI union in partnership with Education International, UNICEF, and Save the Children, education professionals have learned to distinguish between work that is socialising and...

    Ivory Coast: Teachers mobilise communities to end child labour
  8. Leading the profession 6 April 2023

    Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment - Second network event drives project forward in Côte d'Ivoire

    The Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment project has continued to build momentum in Côte d'Ivoire. Thanks to an enthusiastic team, led by a dedicated national researcher Professor Claude Koutou, a second network event took place on the 8th of March 2023.

    Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment - Second network event drives project forward in Côte d'Ivoire
  9. Leading the profession 24 March 2023

    Côte d'Ivoire: Working together and tracking achievements key to Teacher-led Learning Circles

    The Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment project aims to provide teachers with tools and support to identify and establish effective teacher-led formative assessment practices that can be disseminated within and across education unions.

    Côte d'Ivoire: Working together and tracking achievements key to Teacher-led Learning Circles
  10. Leading the profession 5 February 2023

    Teacher-Led Learning Circles on Formative Assessments: Supporting teachers’ professional development and leadership around the globe

    Education International, the global federation of education unions, is launching the Teacher-led Learning Circles on Formative Assessments project with funding from the Jacobs Foundation. The project aims to provide teachers with tools and support to identify and establish effective teacher-led formative assessment practices that can be disseminated within and across...

    Teacher-Led Learning Circles on Formative Assessments: Supporting teachers’ professional development and leadership around the globe
  11. Young members 25 August 2022

    The winds of trade union change blow across Africa

    A webinar organised by Education International’s regional office for Africa (EIRAF) was the opportunity for an enriching and useful exchange of experiences of trade union renewal between member organisations in Cameroon, Mali, Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire.

    The winds of trade union change blow across Africa
  12. Union growth 21 October 2020

    “Africa: Collaboration between Unions and Governments for a Better Future in Education”, by Cherine Sabry.

    Cherine Sabry

    Unions and governments have been in conflict since the dawn of time. The mere existence of unions as a force to defend workers’ rights where governments fail to do so in and of itself leads to this conflictual relationship. In Africa, unions have rarely been consulted during the COVID-19 crisis...

    “Africa: Collaboration between Unions and Governments for a Better Future in Education”, by Cherine Sabry.
  13. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 17 October 2019

    “Higher ambitions for education and copyright in Africa and the world”, by Mugwena Maluleke.

    Mugwena Maluleke

    African nations actively participated in the development of the Sustainable Development Agenda that acknowledged the centrality of education in the achievement of all other plans for a better world. Like other nations of the world, they committed to the provision of a single, renewed education agenda that is holistic, ambitious...

    “Higher ambitions for education and copyright in Africa and the world”, by Mugwena Maluleke.
  14. Leading the profession 5 September 2019

    “Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Cote d’Ivoire: problematic privatization and a framework to be redefined”, by Eric Lavigne.

    Eric Lavigne

    The Pathways to Education and Work research group from the University of Toronto has published its report entitled “Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Cote d’Ivoire”. The study assesses, negatively, the results of privatization of education on technical and vocational education and training (TVET), calls for more public participation,...

    “Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Cote d’Ivoire: problematic privatization and a framework to be redefined”, by Eric Lavigne.
  15. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 23 July 2019

    “Productive capabilities develop TVET’s contribution to social justice”, by Gavin Moodie.

    Gavin Moodie

    Education International’s new report on "Technical and Vocational Education and Training as a Framework for Social Justice" charts a new way for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) to advance social justice.

    “Productive capabilities develop TVET’s contribution to social justice”, by Gavin Moodie.