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Union renewal and development 6 July 2017 Africa
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Union renewal and development 6 July 2017 ACCRS
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Union renewal and development 6 July 2017 Worldwide
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Equity and inclusion 5 July 2017 Global effort intensifies to end gender-based violence in the world of work
Education International is urging its affiliates around the world to throw their support behind a campaign to end violence against women and men in the workplace through a proposed International Labour Organisation Convention addressing the issue.
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Equity and inclusion 5 July 2017 Southern Africa: unions unite to advance the gender agenda
Female leadership, school-related gender-based violence, and resource mobilisation were among the many topics that came under the spotlight at the Southern Africa Women in Education Network Gender Training and Advocacy workshop.
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Union growth 4 July 2017 Niger: Trade unionist teacher elected to National Commission on Human Rights
In a significant move, the General Secretary of the Syndicat National des Agents de la Formation et de l'Education du Niger, has been appointed as the workers’ representative on the National Commission on Human Rights in Niger.
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Standards and working conditions 4 July 2017 New OECD report critical of Romania’s education system
Welcomed by the Free Trade Union Federation in Education, the report echoes many of the union’s concerns, from high-stakes testing to the need for greater teacher autonomy, in an in-depth examination of the education system.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 4 July 2017 America’s largest teachers’ union faces down Trump administration over charter schools
The National Education Association will not meet with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos until she answers simple questions about her commitment to accountability and transparency for charter schools and to protecting America’s most vulnerable students.
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Equity and inclusion 3 July 2017 Global Unions call for rights to be at the core of a new Global Compact on Migration
Education International joined other Global Unions to call for human, labour and education rights to be at the core of a new Global Compact on Migration.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 3 July 2017 Global education agenda taken forward at the United Nations
A high-level education event at the United Nations in New York last week was followed by a meeting by the Education 2030 Steering Committee, the body overseeing the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 4.
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Union renewal and development 30 June 2017 Canada: new guide released to enhance cultural intervention for linguistic minorities
To better prepare teenagers in linguistic minority schools to find their identity and prepare for adult life, the Canadian Teachers’ Federation has produced a reference tool to help educators work with their pupils.
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Equity and inclusion 29 June 2017 German Union Supports Teachers Facing Traumatised Refugee Children and Young People
As part of the response to teaching hundreds of thousands of newly arrived refugee children, the GEW has organised a series of workshops this year to support teachers and other education workers facing children with special psychological needs, such as trauma caused by the experience of war and the long...
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Equity and inclusion 29 June 2017 EIS (UK) supports teachers to deconstruct myths on immigration
Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS), EI affiliate and Scotland’s largest education trade union, has created a series of guides for teachers and lecturers on how to address myths of immigration in the classroom. The union made available three different guides depending on age range to provide support to teachers to...
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Equity and inclusion 29 June 2017 In Vitoria (Spain), FECCOO supports teachers working in a multicultural context
The scope of the project called "My school is an intercultural world map in which we all learn better" is to develop teacher training activities, in order to improve the quality of day-to-day interactions with students from different cultural backgrounds.
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Equity and inclusion 29 June 2017 GEW and partners denounce the state of refugees’ education in Bremen, Germany
In a public event organized on 29 May 2017, the Bremen Education Union (GEW – LV Bremen) and the Bremen Refugee Council (Flüchtlingsrat Bremen) have criticised the lack of school places for hundreds of young refugees in Bremen. Despite the right to an education, and the legal requirement under German...
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Climate action and literacy 29 June 2017 Education International puts teachers’ needs at the centre of sustainable development
With the United Nations striving to increase sustainable development education around the world, Education International President Susan Hopgood called for more “tools, time and trust” to strengthen the teaching profession and deliver on the SDGs.
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Climate action and literacy 29 June 2017 Education leaders send urgent message to the G20
The world's biggest players in education are sending an urgent message to the leaders of the G20, meeting July 7-8 in Hamburg, Germany: a better future for all demands a bold increase in education financing.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 29 June 2017 Ivory Coast: Weary of privatisation, educators launch inquiry
The expansion of private for-profit education in the West African country has caught the attention of education unions, leading to research and demands addressed at the government.
Ivory Coast: Weary of privatisation, educators launch inquiry