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Union growth 27 February 2013 Morocco: Congress debates challenges of public education
The Syndicat national de l'enseignement-Fédération démocratique du travail (SNE-FDT) of Morocco, held its 10th Congress from 22-24 February in Marrakech. The congress theme was “All in defence of public education, the teaching profession, trade union rights and democratic freedoms”.
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Standards and working conditions 27 February 2013 Congo-Kinshasa: strike against non-payment of salaries
Members of the Centrale de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche scientifique (CSC-Enseignement), one of EI’s national affiliates in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, support the teachers’ strike that started on 18 February in the South Kivu region. The strikers are protesting about the non-payment of their salaries, in...
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Standards and working conditions 25 February 2013 Lebanon: Delay in new wage scale prompts open-ended strike
EI has sent a solidarity letter supporting its national affiliates, the Teachers’ Syndicate of Lebanon (TSL),) the Ligue des professeurs de l’enseignement public du Liban (LPESPL), and the League of Technical and Vocational Teachers (CETO). It is asking its affiliates to write to the Lebanese Government, to push for the...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 February 2013 Tanzania: Exam failure rates led to calls for improvement
EI is demanding greater investment in quality teachers and respect for their professional and trade union rights, in a bid to improve education quality in Tanzania. The call follows the announcement by Tanzania’s Minister for Education and Vocational Training, Dr Shukuru Kawambwa, that the country’s students performed poorly in the...
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Standards and working conditions 21 February 2013 NUTP: more engagement, less confrontation
"We want more engagement and less confrontation," says Lok Yim Pheng, the General Secretary of the National Union of the Teaching Profession of Malaysia (NUTP), the country's largest teachers' union.
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Trade union rights are human rights 20 February 2013 Turkey: More than 140 trade unionists arrested
EI strongly condemns the police raids that have targeted members and leaders of the public sector confederation, KESK, early in the morning on Tuesday, 19 February.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 20 February 2013 Teacher unions discuss education issues in Europe
On 7 February, a meeting was held between two EI affiliates, the Greek Federation of Secondary State School Teachers (OLME) and the German Gewerkschaft Erziehung and Wissenschaft(GEW) in Athens, Greece. They held a press conference focused on common problems in the education sector and for teachers in their countries, as...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 20 February 2013 Post-2015 Global Consultation on Education
UNICEF and UNESCO have launched an e-discussion on Governance and Financing of Education. The consultation runs through the 24th of February.
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Trade union rights are human rights 18 February 2013 Malaysia: Students to get extra insurance coverage
The National Union of the Teaching Profession (NUTP), one of EI’s national affiliates, has broadly welcomed the government’s announcement of additional insurance being offered to schoolchildren. However, it also called on the Government to address school-bus facilities.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 18 February 2013 Finland: Educa-fair addresses quality education
On 25-26 January, around 14,000 teachers attended in Helsinki the Educa-fair, including members of one of EI’s national affiliates, the Opetusalan Ammattijärjestö(OAJ). The Fair featured presentations and discussions on ways to improve education and around 200 companies exhibited their education materials and services.
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Standards and working conditions 18 February 2013 Colombia: Employment and rights at heart of union activity
On 6 February, EI’s affiliate, Federación Colombiana de Educadores (FECODE), organised a demonstration calling for free public education, respect for the teaching profession, and quality health services for teachers. More than 6,000 demonstrators marched through the capital, Bogotá, to demand an end to the privatisation of education covertly promoted by...
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Union renewal and development 18 February 2013 International cooperation to train qualified teachers
The Namibia National Teachers’ Union (NANTU) and the Trade Union of Education of Finland (OAJ), two EI affiliates, have signed a three-year agreement on training.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 18 February 2013 Canada: Teachers’ guide to copyright released
The Canadian Teachers’ Federation (CTF), one of EI’s national affiliates, has released the third edition of ‘Copyright Matters! Some Key Questions and Answers for Teachers’. The publication takes into account key changes that have occurred in the area of copyright since the previous edition, published in 2005.
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Equity and inclusion 18 February 2013 Burkina Faso: trade union women’s congress
The Fédération des syndicats nationaux des travailleurs de l’éducation et de la recherche (F-SYNTER), held its fourth women’s congress on 26 January in Ougadougou. The education union received financial support from German colleagues in the Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Bildung (GEW), also an EI affiliate.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 15 February 2013 Germany: Concrete step towards the abolition of tuition fees
The campaign to abolish tuition fees in Bavaria has taken a step forward with a referendum on the issue set to be organised. This follows on from 10 per cent of Bavaria’s eligible voters agreeing to a referendum on the abolition of tuition fees.
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Union renewal and development 15 February 2013 Follow Fred van Leeuwen on Twitter!
EI General Secretary Fred van Leeuwen is now on Twitter - follow @fredvanleeuwen for news, views, insights and highlights from the global education scene.
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Trade union rights are human rights 14 February 2013 Strong teacher unions are good partners in serious reform
In a well-received speech delivered at the World Bank, EI Vice-President Dennis van Roekel from the National Education Association/USA has raised some important issues about the Bank’s approach to education sector reform, how that approach impacts on teachers, misses important opportunities for educational improvement and equity ... and where the...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 14 February 2013 Spain: Educational reforms divisive as unemployment rises
Six million people are unemployed in Spain, according to the latest official data, which paints a bleak picture about the state of the country. One-third do not receive any unemployment benefit and in almost two million households, each family member is unemployed. Twenty seven per cent of the population is...
Spain: Educational reforms divisive as unemployment rises