Articles from Norway
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 26 June 2024 Recognising the teacher crisis in Norway: a key step towards solving it
Ann Mari Milo Lorentzen
For years, we have fought for the recognition of the teacher crisis in Norway. A new multi-stakeholder strategy brings hope for change from early childhood to higher levels of education.
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Union renewal and development 13 November 2023 Norway: Quality education, international solidarity, and addressing the teacher shortage are imperatives for unionists around the world
In his final official speech as President of the Union of Education Norway (UEN), Steffen Handal, also a member of Education International (EI) Executive Board, reflected on educational realities in his country and around the world: “Never has the shortage of teachers been more pressing than now! Never have more...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 August 2023 Truth and Reconciliation: the responsibility of education and teachers towards Sami, Kven and Forest Finn communities in Norway
Kathrine Blyverket
In 2018, Norway’s Parliament established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to examine historic policies and activities relating to Indigenous Peoples, including attempts to assimilate them. On 1 June 2023, after five years of work, the commission presented its report , based on interviews with more than 700 people, illustrating very...
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Union renewal and development 27 February 2023 European unions’ solidarity brings progress on social and policy dialogue, gender equity and union renewal
Development cooperation (DC) partners of the European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE) – Education International’s European Region – met for a DC Café online and discussed activities related to social and policy dialogue, gender equity and union renewal.
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Trade union rights are human rights 13 February 2023 Social and policy dialogue, a key to union renewal?
Education International member organisation Union of Education Norway is exploring new ways of structuring development cooperation (DC) projects and ensuring that the educators’ voice is heard when decisions are made concerning educational issues and the teaching profession.
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Trade union rights are human rights 20 August 2022 Teacher strike in Norway!
All teacher trade unions are now on strike in Norway. The two main reasons are the lack of qualified teachers, and salaries.
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Union renewal and development 2 December 2021 UEN Norway: Organisational development as the first step towards strong unions
The organisational development of unions is at the core of all UEN cooperation projects. The Norwegian union focuses on three key areas: social dialogue, gender equality and equity, and capacity building.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 16 April 2020 "Teachers rising to the challenge of a global pandemic", by Steffen Handal.
Steffen Handal
In Norway, schools and kindergartens have been closed since the middle of March. Only children whose parents have a socio-critical profession have been attending. The Government has decided that early childhood institutions will open April 20th and grade 1 - 4 one week later.
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Trade union rights are human rights 27 March 2020 Education unions in Nordic countries join forces with public authorities to fight COVID-19 pandemic
Educators in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden are using well-developed social dialogue channels and information technology to help curb the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Equity and inclusion 12 March 2020 Beijing +25: "Making the Promise of Beijing a Reality for Learners and for Education Sector Workers."
madeleine kennedy macfoy
Examples of the work done by Education International and its member organisations in different parts of the world since the Beijing Platform for Action was adopted in 1995, demonstrate the power of taking collective action to find collective solutions.
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Union renewal and development 8 November 2019 Norway: Utdanningsforbundet sets path for the next 4 years
Under the slogan “We educate Norway”, the Union of Educators of Norway (UEN) has adopted an ambitious policy agenda that will shape the future of education in the country.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 7 October 2019 #youngteachers “Join the world of teaching! It’s worth it.”, by Anette Sandvaer (UEN, Norway).
Anette Sandvær
Get ready. This is going to be a feel-good story about why you should go out into the world and teach. Also, hopefully it will inspire you to become an active unionist. And if you have left teaching, I will try to convince you to come back to the magical...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 26 March 2019 Oslo: Nordic conference puts children at the centre of early childhood education
An international conference entitled, “The Nordic Way –Early Childhood Education & Care”, was organised on 26-27 March, 2019 in Oslo. It was convened by Union of Education Norway (UEN), in partnership with the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research and the Nordic Council of Ministers.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 15 March 2019 “Early Childhood Education – the start of lifelong learning – but build upon play and well-being”, by Lasse Bjerg Jørgensen.
Lasse Bjerg Jørgensen
At last Early Childhood Education (ECE) is on the agenda of an International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP). At this year’s Summit, ISTP 2019, the importance of ECE for lifelong learning and well-being is now, for the first time, one of the Summit’s three plenary themes.
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Equity and inclusion 13 February 2019 “A Pending Task: Addressing Inequality in Education”, by Karen Inga Eira and Juan Gabriel Espinola.
Juan Gabriel Espinola, Karen Inga Eira
2019 marks the 30th anniversary of the International Labour Organization (ILO) Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention 1989 (No 169), the only international treaty that specifically addresses the rights of Indigenous Peoples. Education International recognizes the critical role that teachers and their organizations in the education system have in ensuring the...
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Union growth 24 January 2019 #EI25: “Standing together: the power of teachers in the fight for democracy”, by Steffen Handal
Steffen Handal
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai has said that "One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world." She is right. Education changes lives, communities and the world. It is both a key to changes in society and individual freedom projects. I therefore stand shoulder...
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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 4 May 2018 Reflections on the 62nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women, by Ann Mari Milo Lorentzen & Gro Hartveit
Ann Mari Milo Lorentzen, Gro Hartveit
This year, Union of Education (Norway) had two political leaders as a part of Education International’s delegation to CSW62 in New York. We, Ann Mari Milo Lorentzen and Gro Hartveit, members of Union of Education (UEN)’s Executive Board, participated for the first time. We arrived on the 10th of March...
Reflections on the 62nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women, by Ann Mari Milo Lorentzen & Gro Hartveit