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Patrick Pleul
Patrick Pleul

Standards and working conditions

Our work in this area

  1. Research

    The Status of Teachers and the Teaching Profession

    Vasileios Symeonidis
    3 March 2015

    This report is based on an extensive survey (responses from 73 Education International (EI) member organisations from all regions). It reveals the threats to the status of teachers from misguided “reforms” leading to precarious working conditions for teachers and education workers and curbing teachers' professional development, professional autonomy, social dialogue,...

    The Status of Teachers and the Teaching Profession
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  2. News 3 February 2015

    France: stronger values are dependent on a stronger teaching profession

    In a move to enhance the status of the teaching profession, French education unions undertook a one-day strike this week to shed light on the important role education plays in building strong values.

    France: stronger values are dependent on a stronger teaching profession
  3. News 23 January 2015

    EI to help solve labour conflict in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

    As the labour conflict in the country’s education sector escalates, ETUCE, Education International’s European Region, aims to bring the parties back to the negotiation table after months of a sluggish social dialogue, which came to a complete standstill at the end of the year.

    EI to help solve labour conflict in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
  4. News 13 January 2015

    UK: education suffers as graduates shun teaching for higher paying jobs

    Children’s entitlement to a high-quality education is at risk because of the widening pay gap between teaching and other professions, according to research commissioned by the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers.

    UK: education suffers as graduates shun teaching for higher paying jobs
  5. News 17 October 2014

    Education unions celebrate teachers throughout Asia-Pacific

    Events across the Asia-Pacific region, including an eclectic crowd of teachers, students, parents, and monks in Cambodia, brought together various unions and organisations to mark World Teachers’ Day.

    Education unions celebrate teachers throughout Asia-Pacific
  6. News 17 October 2014

    Annual Eurydice report on teachers’ and school heads’ salaries

    This year’s edition of the annual Eurydice report on teachers’ and school heads’ salaries and allowances shows that about half of the 33 surveyed European countries have applied salary cuts or salary freezes for public employees during the period 2009-2014. In these countries, teachers’ purchasing power in 2014 is still...

    Annual Eurydice report on teachers’ and school heads’ salaries
  7. News 15 October 2014

    France: Unions stress national and global need to prioritise education

    Education International’s French affiliates capitalised on World Teachers’ Day to stress the importance of education remaining both a national and global priority, while renewing their calls for increased investment.

    France: Unions stress national and global need to prioritise education
  8. News 3 October 2014

    Cameroon: Demand for more public investment in education

    Global market dynamics have not benefited education. That’s according to Roger Kaffo Fokou, Deputy General Secretary of the Fédération des syndicats de l’enseignement et de la recherche(FESER), one of Education International’s (EI) affiliates in Cameroon, in a statement to mark World Teachers’ Day on 5 October.

    Cameroon: Demand for more public investment in education
  9. News 2 October 2014

    Australia: Quality education under the spotlight

    What is quality education? This is the question members of the Independent Education Union (IEU), affiliated to Education International (EI), are debating today and tomorrow in Sydney, to celebrate World Teachers’ Day on 5 October.

    Australia: Quality education under the spotlight
  10. News 8 September 2014

    Positioning School Leadership in the Agenda for School Reforms

    EPNoSL is organizing its next Peer Learning Activity (PLA) in Nice, France. Interested stakeholders are welcomed to join the event that will be attended by members of the wider school leadership community, including policy makers, educational leaders (school principals and head teachers, and teacher educators), researchers, representatives of professional associations,...

    Positioning School Leadership in the Agenda for School Reforms
  11. News 13 August 2014

    UN opens call for courageous youth nominees

    For the second consecutive year, the world’s top young leaders in education will be recognised by the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education.

    UN opens call for courageous youth nominees
  12. News 14 July 2014

    New EURYDICE Report: Financing Schools in Europe

    The report Financing Schools in Europe: Mechanisms, Methods and Criteria in Public Funding provides a framework for understanding the structure of funding systems of primary and general secondary education.

    New EURYDICE Report: Financing Schools in Europe
  13. News 25 June 2014

    Global survey leaves no doubt about the importance of teachers’ voice in policymaking

    The latest Teaching and Learning International Survey has proven what organisations like Education International have been saying for a long time, that collaboration on management decisions with teachers and educators is the key to high quality education.

    Global survey leaves no doubt about the importance of teachers’ voice in policymaking
  14. News 25 June 2014

    Global survey leaves no doubt about the importance of teachers’ voice in policymaking

    The latest Teaching and Learning International Survey has proven what organisations like Education International have been saying for a long time, that collaboration on management decisions with teachers and educators is the key to high quality education.

    Global survey leaves no doubt about the importance of teachers’ voice in policymaking
  15. News 25 June 2014

    Global survey leaves no doubt about the importance of teachers

    The latest Teaching and Learning International Survey has proven what organisations like Education International have been saying for a long time, that collaboration on management decisions with teachers and educators is crucial to high quality education.

    Global survey leaves no doubt about the importance of teachers