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News 4 July 2013 Indonesia: trade unionists demand decent wages and better promotion prospects
The 21st Congress of the Teachers’ Association of the Republic of Indonesia (PGRI), EI’s largest national affiliate, has called on the government to invest in teachers and education, and improve teacher's living conditions by giving them decent salaries.
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News 18 April 2013 Egypt: First steps towards long-term support for education unions
EI initiated on March 16, 2013 the first of its 4 forums with education unions in Egypt . Over 90 activists from independent organizations of teachers, university, and educational workers met in Cairo, Egypt to discuss challenges facing workers in the education sector and how to strengthen democratic unions. They...
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News 9 April 2013 UK: Video alleges Education Minister’s misuse of evidence
The National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) and the National Union of Teachers (NUT), the two largest EI national affiliates in the UK, have recommended a video about the United Kingdom’s Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove. The video looks at the policies pursued by Gove...
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News 28 March 2013 Gambia: One man’s investment in the future of a nation
EI national affiliate the Gambia Teachers’ Union (GTU) has welcomed the Gambia's Consul General to the Republic of Italy, His Excellency Francesco Cristina di Santannera, statement highlighting the importance of education, acknowledging that it is the foundation for any nation’s development. He asserted that without education, no country can develop...
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News 28 March 2013 Gambia: One man’s investment in the future of a nation
EI national affiliate the Gambia Teachers’ Union (GTU) has welcomed the Gambia's Consul General to the Republic of Italy, His Excellency Francesco Cristina di Santannera, statement highlighting the importance of education, acknowledging that it is the foundation for any nation’s development. He asserted that without education, no country can develop...
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News 28 March 2013 Swaziland: Teachers fight for pay rise
Public sector trade unions in Swaziland, including EI affiliate Swaziland National Association of Teachers (SNAT), have reacted negatively to the announcement of a 30 per cent pay rise for junior police officers, because a pay freeze has been applied to teachers!
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14 March 2013 Fred van Leeuwen's speech at the ISTP 2013
EI General Secretary, Fred van Leeuwen, addresses the Third International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP) 2013
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News 13 March 2013 ISTP: teacher evaluation under the spotlight
Teacher evaluation is the main topic under review at the third International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP) held in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from 13-14 March.
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News 27 February 2013 New Zealand: Campaign for education support staff
EI affiliate the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI Te Riu Roa), has launched a new campaign, entitled ‘Support Staff - Supporting Success in Education’.
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News 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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News 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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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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