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   Standards and working conditions 21 March 2025

   Nepalese teachers push for governmental action: A call for education reform

   In a powerful display of unity and determination, thousands of Nepalese teachers have once again gathered in the capital, demanding the government pass the long-awaited School Education Bill. The protest, organized by the Confederation of Nepali Teachers (CNT), comes one-and-a-half years after a previous demonstration was called off following a...

   Nepalese teachers push for governmental action: A call for education reform

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   Standards and working conditions 11 March 2025

   Education unions from Southeast Asia strategise next steps of the Go Public! Fund Education campaign

   Education International (EI) member organisations from Indonesia, Cambodia, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines came together in Bangkok on March 7 to discuss and plan the next stage of the Go Public! Fund Education campaign in their countries and the region.

   Education unions from Southeast Asia strategise next steps of the Go Public! Fund Education campaign

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   Go public! Fund education 26 June 2024

   Addressing the teacher shortage crisis in Nepal: A call for action

   Nepal is grappling with a severe teacher shortage that threatens the future of its public education system. Despite the 2015 federal Constitution guaranteeing free and compulsory education, there is a critical shortage of over 65,000 teachers, particularly at lower secondary and secondary levels, to maintain national student-teacher ratios. Furthermore, 12.6...

   Addressing the teacher shortage crisis in Nepal: A call for action

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   Standards and working conditions 20 September 2023

   Nepal: Massive mobilisation of teachers denounce education law which aims to restrict their rights

   Education International fully supports the thousands of teachers and members of its affiliates in Nepal demonstrating to demand a respected and valued teaching profession in the face of a new law that seeks to curb their trade union rights.

   Nepal: Massive mobilisation of teachers denounce education law which aims to restrict their rights

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   Fighting the commercialisation of education 5 July 2023

   Go Public! Advocating for progressive taxation to fund public education in Nepal

   Education leaders and representatives from civil society came together at a three-day capacity building workshop in Nepal with a pressing agenda: to address the urgent need for increased domestic funding in the country's public education system. Their primary objective was to strengthen public education financing and advocate for the implementation...

   Go Public! Advocating for progressive taxation to fund public education in Nepal

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   Fighting the commercialisation of education 14 June 2023

   Educators in South Asia go public to fund education

   Over 140 union delegates from South Asian countries including India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal came together to reflect and learn from each other to play an active role in transforming education in South Asia.

   Educators in South Asia go public to fund education