Articles from Mexico
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 9 April 2018 When it comes to challenges in higher education, unions make a difference
"The austerity in public sector budgets, the decline in salaries, the threats to academic freedom, the increasingly precarious nature of work stability, the expansion of privatization, and the reduction in unionised academic staff, are some of the main challenges faced by teachers in higher education”, Nelly Stromquist, an expert in...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 28 March 2018 Open access to research highlighted at CIES conference
Education International and its affiliates’ work on open science and the publishing industry was showcased at this year’s Comparative International Education Society (CIES) conference.
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Trade union rights are human rights 7 March 2018 Mexico: SNTE Congress elects leaders and confirms unity amidst challenging times
The Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación, in an extraordinary Congress, modified its statutes, including adopting a provision that 50 per cent of its leadership positions must be held by women. They elected their leadership and strengthened their commitment to achieve improved teachers’ working and living conditions and quality...
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Trade union rights are human rights 26 September 2017 Mexico: Educators worldwide mourn victims, past and present
Victims of injustice and natural catastrophes have been remembered today September 26, weeks after hurricanes and earthquakes added many to the numbers of deceased, and three years after the forced disappearance of 43 students in Ayotzinapa.
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Union renewal and development 22 September 2017 Mexican teachers show their solidarity after the catastrophe
The Mexican union SNTE, an Education International member in Mexico, is providing crucial rescue and relief assistance to the communities struck by the earthquakes of the past few weeks.
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Union renewal and development 18 August 2017 Mexico: transforming schools into self-sustained communities
A new project by the Mexican union SNTE aims to improve the life quality of students, teachers and their families by turning schools into self-sustained units through the integration of education and agriculture.
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Trade union rights are human rights 13 August 2017 Mexico: global campaign demands justice for 43 missing Mexican students
A global campaign marking three years since the forced disappearance of 43 teacher students in Mexico is again calling for an investigation, reparation and justice.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 23 June 2017 Mexico’s teachers’ union takes steps to ‘enrich’ the profession
With an agreement signed with the Organisation of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture, the National Union of Education Workers is seeking to strengthen the teaching profession through new education and research programmes.
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Equity and inclusion 21 June 2017 Mexican educators team up with UNESCO to launch multilingual indigenous education guide
The National Union of Education Workers and UNESCO announced that the pedagogical guide to indigenous education is now available in English and French, a move to provide greater access to the learning tool.
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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 24 February 2017 Mexico: Union helps bridge the tech divide
Disadvantaged schools will be provided with new technologies and IT training for teachers, an initiative of Mexico's largest education union to help its members to overcome the technology gap that divides the country.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 8 February 2017 Mexico celebrates 100 years of education as a public right
The SNTE, Education International’s Mexican affiliate, spared no detail to celebrate 100 years of education as a right for all citizens, at the centennial anniversary of the adoption of its national constitution.
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Equity and inclusion 1 December 2016 Mexico: New guide to improve Indigenous education
The Mexican National Union of Education Workers (SNTE), together with UNESCO, has published a ground-breaking guide for teachers to help them excel in the delivery of Indigenous education in the classroom.
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Union growth 26 September 2016 Education unions take case of missing Mexican students to the United Nations
Six Education International affiliates from the Americas are joining forces to file a UN human rights complaint on behalf of the disappeared 43 Mexican student teachers and related rights violations of 137 others.
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Union renewal and development 22 June 2016 Education International condemns violence against educators in Mexico
Education International strongly condemns the escalating violence against teachers, students and citizens which resulted in 6 deaths on 19 June in Oaxaca, Mexico.
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Equity and inclusion 26 May 2016 Mexico: indigenous teachers call for inclusive quality education
The second Indigenous Teachers’ Parliament of Mexico has asserted the pressing need to include all educators in the fight for an integrated quality education system that recognises all cultures by beginning in the classroom.
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Standards and working conditions 4 April 2016 Teachers are key to quality education and successful 2030 Education Agenda
The Teacher Target in the Sustainable Development Goals and Education 2030 must be implemented. This was one key finding from the 8th Policy Dialogue Forum - International Task Force on Teachers held in Mexico from 14-17 March.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 27 January 2016 Mexican union launches anti-privatisation programme
Committed to defending the constitutional right to quality education, Mexican union SNTE is gearing up for a campaign to halt the spread of for-profit private education in the country.
Mexican union launches anti-privatisation programme