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News 25 March 2025 ISTP 2025 Opens in Reykjavík: Governments Must Fund Early Childhood Education
The 15th International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP) kicks off today in Reykjavík, Iceland, bringing together education ministers and leaders of teachers’ unions from 24 countries and jurisdictions.
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News 24 March 2025 Albania: Education unions’ relentless united struggle for change
Albania's leading education unions have joined forces to demand increased investment for quality public education and better working and living conditions for teachers, setting a positive example to be shared with colleagues throughout Europe and beyond.
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News 21 March 2025 Joining forces for women’s rights at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women
A delegation of women education unionists from 12 countries represented the millions of women who power education around the world at the 69th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UN CSW). Taking place in New York from the 10th to the 21st of March, the...
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News 21 March 2025 Nepalese teachers push for governmental action: A call for education reform
In a powerful display of unity and determination, thousands of Nepalese teachers have once again gathered in the capital, demanding the government pass the long-awaited School Education Bill. The protest, organized by the Confederation of Nepali Teachers (CNT), comes one-and-a-half years after a previous demonstration was called off following a...
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Worlds of Education 21 March 2025 Hair discrimination and cultural bias in South Africa’s education sector
Nomarashiya Dolly Caluza
As a young, South African girlchild, I experienced elements of hair discrimination at school and in my community. I attended African schools taught by African teachers. Our teachers discouraged us from wearing our hair long, claiming that our hair did not look “clean”, forcing us to either keep it short...
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News 18 March 2025 Togo: Union campaigns to ensure education remains a priority
FESEN, Education International’s member organisation in Togo, is working to identify ways of increasing public funding for education. The union organised a diagnostic and planning workshop during which education unionists drew up an action plan for implementing the goals of the Go Public! Fund Education campaign during 2025.
Togo: Union campaigns to ensure education remains a priority