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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 23 September 2024 Teachers at the heart of global sustainability: a call for urgent reform
Rachel Wilson
There's so much happening around the globe that it's easy to miss significant announcements. Back in February, an urgent and impactful report was released that has flown under the radar for many. While immediate global crises demand our attention, this story shines a light on a crucial yet overlooked issue....
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Leading the profession 22 April 2024 ISTP 2024: Empowering teachers to shape equitable futures
The 14th International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP) is taking place in Singapore, from April 22-24, bringing together education ministers and leaders from education unions across 19 countries.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 21 April 2024 Bringing governments and education unions together
David Edwards
For the well-being of students, our communities and our countries, governments must increase investment in public education systems, including quality teacher training and professional development, guarantee labor rights and good working conditions, involve teacher unions in policymaking and trust and respect teachers and their professional expertise.
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Standards and working conditions 27 February 2024 Education Voices | Unpacking the High-Level Panel Recommendations
Manal Hdaife
Manal Hdaife is a school principal and chair of the Education International Arab Countries Cross Regional Structure Committee, deeply committed to advancing the cause of education in Lebanon. With a career dedicated to promoting teachers' rights and enhancing educational standards, Hdaife has emerged as a key advocate for public education...
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Standards and working conditions 27 February 2024 Education voices | Elevating the Teacher Profession: High-Level Panel Recommendations explained
Mike Thiruman
Mike Thiruman, General Secretary of the Singapore Teachers' Union, embodies a profound dedication to teacher empowerment by enhancing working conditions, advocating for teacher agency, and fostering teacher wellness and growth. As a member of the High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession, convened by the United Nations, Thiruman's insights are crucial...
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Standards and working conditions 26 February 2024 A call to action: implementing the UN recommendations to raise the status of the teaching profession
David Edwards
On February 26, the United Nations High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession launched its 59 recommendations to governments to strengthen the profession and ensure that teachers are valued and respected. The Panel and its broad recommendations are the result of persistent union advocacy. It is incumbent upon Governments to implement...
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Equity and inclusion 29 November 2023 Invest in the future: Fund early childhood education
Ezurike Chidubem Precious
Based on my experience as a teacher in the sector, I can testify to the transformative power of quality early childhood education (ECE) for children. ECE goes beyond learning letters of the alphabet or numbers. Playing games and enjoying nature outdoors are equally important for children, nurturing creativity and building...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 2 November 2023 Teachers need more innovation, not more innovations
Andy Hargreaves
We’re in a global fight for the future of the teaching profession. One place where the forces are tussling it out is around the importance of educational innovation. Many people leave teaching because they just don’t like how the job feels. Educators want more opportunity to innovate in their own...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 26 June 2023 Decolonising education: sovereign and fiscally-just budgets for public education
Latin American Observatory of Education Policies
Decolonising education financing – the theme of this year’s Global Action Week for Education – rests on decolonising the very concepts of development, state management, public policy, working relationships, pedagogical approaches and collaboration between peoples and their governments.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 20 June 2023 Social justice without quality public education and teachers?
José Olivera
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) held its 111th annual conference in Geneva (Switzerland) from 5 to 16 June. The ILO is the only tripartite body of the United Nations system that brings together representatives of the labour sector, governments and employers to address a range of issues pertaining to the...
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Education support personnel 16 May 2023 Valuing education support personnel amid investment cuts and privatization
João Gois Ramalho
The Federação Nacional da Educação (National Education Federation – FNE), its nine teachers' unions and three education support personnel (ESP) unions are honored to host the 2nd World ESP Conference, in the city of Aveiro, Portugal. Unions around the world are coming together for this important event to focus on...
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Go public! Fund education 12 May 2023 Education support personnel: an essential part of a quality public service
Luc Allaire
World Education Support Personnel Day on 16 May is an excellent opportunity to remember their invaluable contribution to quality education. They work in dozens of different roles, providing services in occupational therapy, psychoeducation, special education, remedial education, computer science, driving school buses, preparing meals in school, college and university cafeterias,...
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Go public! Fund education 11 May 2023 To improve the quality of education, India needs to invest in qualified teachers
Protiva Kundu
Poor learning levels at school is the biggest concern of the Indian school education system, with poor learning outcomes exacerbated by the learning crisis. To improve learning outcomes, the role of teachers is pivotal.
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Standards and working conditions 24 April 2023 In Cameroon, the teaching profession is losing confidence
Geneviève Ngo Djon
The situation of Cameroonian teachers has changed considerably, as their fortunes follow those of the economy, going from bad to worse. In fact, while the living and working conditions of teachers went from strength to strength from 1960 to 1984, they have gone in the opposite direction since 1993, the...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 18 April 2023 The global student movement demands tax justice for education!
Hector Ulloa
For decades the student movement has demanded quality, universal and free public education; however, student representatives have often seen their demands neglected by politicians hiding behind the excuse of insufficient available funding.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 14 April 2023 In defense of public education
Randi Weingarten
The present article reproduces excerpts from the speech given at the National Press Club on March 28, 2023.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 13 April 2023 Go Public, Grow Public: Mobilize to Finance the Public Good
David Edwards
Today, at the midpoint of the unanimous commitment of the United Nations to set the world on a course of sustainable development by 2030, those Sustainable Development Goals are almost irretrievably off track.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 3 February 2023 We are education! Successful trade union strategies in Mexico
Alfonso Cepeda Salas
The Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (SNTE) is one of the biggest education unions in the world. It currently represents more than 1.5 million active members at all levels of education and 700,000 retired teachers. Its mission is to defend public education and protect the rights of education...
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