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Union growth 4 October 2017 World Teachers’ Day brings professional freedom and empowerment into focus
As the contributions and significance of teachers are recognised, this year’s focus has turned toward the diminishing freedoms facing the profession and the empowerment needed to allow teachers to work effectively in a challenging world.
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Trade union rights are human rights 4 October 2017 UK: teacher unions highlight need of students’ mental health support
Teacher unions in the UK have reiterated educators’ commitment to ensure that the government takes account of their students’ mental health to achieve quality education.
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Union growth 3 October 2017 Canadian Teachers’ Federation vows to support immigrant families in Francophone minority settings
Through its launch of a new resource aimed at immigrants, the Canadian Teachers’ federation is working to facilitate the integration of newcomers and their families in French-language schools.
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Equity and inclusion 2 October 2017 Germany: Union focuses on need to address inclusion of refugees
German educators are addressing the best ways to integrate refugee children into the school system, pointing out challenges to the education systems status quo.
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Equity and inclusion 1 October 2017 Canadian union CTF supports dialogue on cultural diversity in schools
The Canadian Teachers’ Federation (CTF) and the Association canadienne d’éducation de langue française (ACELF) launched the second edition of “Voir grand ensemble” at the ACELF Conference in Calgary, Alberta, September 28-30, 2017.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 29 September 2017 Teachers’ voice is heard at Global Education Industry Summit
Supported by a strong delegation, Education International joined more than a hundred representatives from government, industry and the OECD for the third Global Education Industry Summit in Luxembourg.
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Equity and inclusion 29 September 2017 UNESCO aims at ‘Cracking the code’ to end gender disparities in STEM
A new UNESCO report addresses girls and women’s significant underrepresentation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics professions worldwide, a divide rooted in girls’ earliest days of socialisation and schooling.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 28 September 2017 Quality refugee education lagging a year after global commitments
With only modest advances made in the year since countries pledged education-related support to refugees at the 2016 UN General Assembly’s Leaders’ Summit, renewed calls for immediate action are being made.
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Union renewal and development 27 September 2017 EI’s Initial Reaction to the release of the Bank’s World Development Report on Education
The World Bank’s new education report reveals “a superficial and incoherent effort” that “brushes over complex issues, oversimplifies recommendations and opts for broad generalizations that should make even the most well-intentioned finance minister scratch her head.”
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Union growth 26 September 2017 Mexico: Educators worldwide mourn victims, past and present
Victims of injustice and natural catastrophes have been remembered today September 26, weeks after hurricanes and earthquakes added many to the numbers of deceased, and three years after the forced disappearance of 43 students in Ayotzinapa.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 26 September 2017 Latin America: a unified strategy in defence of quality public education
With a growing number of countries in Latin America hit by the privatisation and commercialisation of education, the response, coordination and strategy is reaching higher levels.
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Union growth 26 September 2017 Swaziland: Unconstitutional move to end free primary school education
The Swaziland National Association of Teachers has condemned the government’s decision to introduce school fees, a move that flies in the face of the country’s constitution which states that primary education is a right.
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Standards and working conditions 25 September 2017 UK: recruitment and retention top the list of demands to be put at the heart of governmental policy
Following on the latest report by the National Audit Office, UK education unions have urged the government to step up its efforts to ensure the recruitment and retention in the profession of properly trained teachers.
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Standards and working conditions 22 September 2017 Understanding teacher identity in the 21st century
How national policies and cultural factors influence the development of teachers’ professional identities is the subject of a new set of studies commissioned by Education International – an eye-opener for educators and policy makers alike.
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Union renewal and development 22 September 2017 Mexican teachers show their solidarity after the catastrophe
The Mexican union SNTE, an Education International member in Mexico, is providing crucial rescue and relief assistance to the communities struck by the earthquakes of the past few weeks.
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Union renewal and development 22 September 2017 EI promotes quality open educational resources
Representatives from Education International and its member organisations have stressed the links between quality education and open educational resources at the second Open Educational Resources conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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Climate action and literacy 21 September 2017 EI takes the lead on education funding during the UN General Assembly
Education International stressed the importance of sustainable education funding this week in New York as the 72nd United Nations General Assembly placed the issue at the top of its priorities.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 21 September 2017 Canada: Quebec education unions call on government to do more for students with disabilities
With close to one million students back in Quebec schools, education trade unions are reminding the provincial government of its need to keep its promise to ensure quality education for all.
Canada: Quebec education unions call on government to do more for students with disabilities