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News 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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News 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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Research Closing the trained teacher gap
18 January 2013Closing the trained teacher gapEvery Child Needs a Teacher: Closing the Trained Teacher Gap is a report jointly produced by the Global Campaign for Education and Education International identifying severe primary teacher gaps, its impact on education systems and to make recommendations for closing this gap.
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Research Global managerial education reforms and teachers
Edited by Antoni Verger, Hülya Altinyelken Mireille de Koning
15 January 2013Global managerial education reforms and teachersThe EI Research Institute and the University of Amsterdam IS Academie "Education and Development" have co-published a volume exploring the role that teachers play in global policy processes and the effects of education reforms on teachers' labour and professionalism in seven case study countries, including India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Namibia, Peru,...
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News 10 January 2013 Namibia: educators demand salary increase
Educators in Namibia are preparing to go on strike to demand a further increase in their salaries, as well as improved conditions of service.
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News 7 January 2013 Zimbabwe: Teachers warn strike action still likely
Teachers in Zimbabwe say they will return to school when the school year begins on 8 January, despite their ongoing resentment about low salaries and poor working conditions. They did not rule out further strike action, however.
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News 14 December 2012 Lebanon: Government must refer new public sector salary scale for approval to Parliament
On 12 December, hundreds of teachers and public sector employees took to the streets, in a march organised by the Union Coordination Committee(UCC) to protest against the governmental failure to refer a new public sector salary scale for approval to the Parliament. They demanded a salary increase.
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News 26 November 2012 Germany: Teacher unionists on a warning strike over working conditions
The Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft (GEW), one of EI’s national affiliates, was involved in a strike action in the state of Saxony. More than 10,000 teachers participated in the action, demanding more teacher jobs, better wages, and legislation regulating pre-pension.
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News 26 November 2012 The ETUCE holds 2012 Conference in Hungary
Budapest will host the 2012 Conference of the European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE) from 26-28 November. ETUCE is the European branch of Education International in Europe and represents over 12 million teachers and education workers in 45 countries.
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21 November 2012 Third International Summit on the Teaching ProfessionThird International Summit on the Teaching Profession
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16 November 2012 France: teachers – the embodiment of a public education service
National education provision in France is tripartite: the public service, which educates 84 per cent of pupils/students; private provision under contract with the State; and the private sector not under contract. Formal schooling, developed from the late 19th century, was secular in inspiration. The early educators embodied the vision of...
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16 November 2012 France: a profession in search of confidence
The education system has become a topic in French political discourse these last six months: with the Presidential election, consultations on the status of the education system in a society in crisis, it is the future of generations to come that is at stake when education is broached. The economic...
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16 November 2012 France: the much-needed relaunch of secondary education
The start of the 2012 school year, prepared mainly by the former administration (the Sarkozy government) has been a difficult one for secondary schools, owing to a lack of resources and the job cuts of recent years.
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16 November 2012 France: Is the long-eroded status of teachers about to improve?
The status of teachers has been severely eroded in France over the last 10 years. This erosion accelerated noticeably during the Presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy. Instead of being considered a necessary investment for society, the education system was presented as a costly burden.
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13 November 2012 Ghana: Realising the aspiration of young teachers in unity
One of greatest difficulties of any voluntary organisation is how to sustain the interest of its members and retain them in the organisation. It is globally recognised that in order to keep the membership of any organisation at its peak, there is the need to keep up and vary the...
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News 12 November 2012 Russia: Teacher union collects one million signatures to amend Education Bill
To protest against stonewalling by lawmakers introducing a new Education Bill, the Education and Science Employees Union of Russia (ESEUR) collected 1,081,934 signatures from its members and had them send 37,959 telegrams to the president, the parliament and the Ministry of Education.
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News 9 November 2012 Evaluation – a necessary evil?Evaluation – a necessary evil?
Sylvain Marois
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News 9 November 2012 Enhancing Teachers’ Status in FranceEnhancing Teachers’ Status in France