Articles from Iceland
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 May 2018 Go for it! The Bologna ministerial summit in Paris, by Andreas Keller
Andreas Keller
Isn’ it ironic? 50 years ago, in May 1968, students in Paris were going to the barricades and aspiring to a societal revolution – and initiated an overdue reform of higher education almost throughout Europe eventually. Today, in May 2018, ministers in charge of higher education from 48 countries belonging...
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Equity and inclusion 15 March 2018 “What Europe can do for refugees and migrants’ education” by Silvia Costa MEP
Silvia Costa
Refugees and migrants education, especially minors, is a top priority, the best way to empower them and foster their integration, but also one of the principles on which the EU is funded. It is incredible, though, that education of migrants - especially forced migrants and refugees - seems to be...
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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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Standards and working conditions 11 April 2014 Icelandic social partners in education end labour dispute with successful result
On 4 April 2014, a new agreement ended the recent conflict between the Icelandic EI member organisation Kennarasamband Islands (KI) and the Icelandic government. In the background of the dispute which lasted for three weeks and culminated in several days of strike of the upper secondary teachers, there was the...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 April 2014 Icelandic social partners in education end labour dispute with successful result
On 4 April 2014, a new agreement ended the recent conflict between the Icelandic ETUC/EI member organisation Kennarasamband Islands (KI) and the Icelandic government.
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Trade union rights are human rights 27 March 2014 Iceland: No end in sight to ongoing strike
Icelandic high-school and technical school teachers have now been on strike for nine days. Negotiations are faltering, due to a government offer on 25 March that was lower than what was offered the week prior to the strike. A new high school law will be implemented in 2015, but Iceland’s...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 March 2014 Iceland: Strike over better conditions for teachers
Following on the failure of negotiations on a new collective agreement for secondary school teachers, EI’s national affiliate, the Kennarasamband Islands (KI), called on its members, upper secondary teachers employed by the state, to go on strike on 17 March.
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Trade union rights are human rights 18 March 2014 Iceland: Strike over better conditions for teachers
Following on the failure of negotiations on a new collective agreement for secondary school teachers, EI’s national affiliate, the Kennarasamband Islands (KI), called on its members, upper secondary teachers employed by the state, to go on strike on 17 March.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 5 March 2014 Iceland: the 10 key messages turned into a strategy for actions
The Icelandic teachers’ union, KÍ, has transformed the 10 key messages adopted by the ETUCE Committee on ‘What is Needed to Improve the Quality of Education in Europe?’ to a core topic to be diffused and discussed at many occasions and to be addressed to all targets in society.
Iceland: the 10 key messages turned into a strategy for actions