Our work in this area
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23 September 2019 Resolution on: Education Support Personnel
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23 September 2019 Resolution on: Safeguarding Academic Freedoms in Higher Education and Research
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23 September 2019 Resolution on: Academic Freedom in Higher Education
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23 September 2019 Resolution on: Teacher and Education Support Personnel’s Mental Health
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19 September 2019 Resolution on: Demand, Resist, Reconquer
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News 16 September 2019 New study shows how education policies impact students, teachers and principals
A new study published today by the OECD, the Education Policy Outlook: Working Together to Help Students Achieve their Potential, reports on the progress of over 200 school improvement policies implemented over the last 10 years.
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13 September 2019 Resolution on: School Leadership
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News 10 September 2019 Education at a Glance 2019 shows governments must accelerate progress towards SDG 4 and quality education for all
Reacting to the newly published Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Education at a Glance report, Education International welcomes progress made in a number of countries in several aspects of educational provision, but insists that other major areas of education remain a cause of great concern for educators.
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News 9 September 2019 DRC: EI and its affiliates campaign for free public education
While they welcomed the news that state sector primary education was to become completely free at the point of use when the government announced its decision to do away with school fees, teachers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have reiterated their concerns about teachers’ salaries and the need...
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News 9 September 2019 UK: increasing starting salaries – a step in the right direction for guaranteeing recruitment and retention of teachers
Reacting to the government’s announcement of an increase in starting salaries for teachers, education unions in the UK have acknowledged that this measure will make teaching more attractive and help to mitigate the recruitment and retention crisis, but further public investment in education is urgently needed.
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News 28 August 2019 Germany: new teachers must receive equal salaries for equal qualifications
The Verband Bildung und Erziehung is pushing for teachers in Germany to be paid the same amount of money for the same initial education and qualifications when they enter the profession.
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News 20 July 2019 ESN holds General Assembly prior to World Congress
The Education and Solidarity Network (ESN), of which Education International (EI) is a founding organisation, held its General Assembly in Bangkok, Thailand on July 20. These organisations from all around the world, including education unions, share the values of solidarity and democracy as their members cooperate to improve the health...
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Worlds of Education 10 July 2019 #OffTrack #1: In Morocco, Teachers Protest Precarious Employment Contracts That Disregard SDG Commitments to Improve Teacher Employment Conditions
Today, the United Nations High-Level Political Forum will focus on reviewing Sustainable Development Goal 8 on decent work and interrelations with other goals. We are far off track to achieve decent work for all educators. In fact, in some countries, governments are introducing policies that are worsening the employment and...
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News 5 July 2019 Korea: teacher unionists stand in solidarity with striking education support workers
On 3 July, over 60,000 education support workers went on a 3-day strike in South Korea to request improved working conditions and job security.
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Worlds of Education 27 June 2019 "Teacher ethics: ethics of presence", by Eirick Prairat.
Eirick Prairat
The professionalisation of the teaching profession, initiated at the beginning of the 1990s, was conceived solely in terms of technical skills. There was little talk of ethics at the time. In this text, we would like to show that far from being “an extra soul”, ethics is at the heart...
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News 19 June 2019 The OECD Teaching and International Survey (TALIS) 2018 data released
The latest Teaching and international Survey (TALIS) 2018 report released by the OECD illustrates the issues teachers face in their workplace; focusing on working time and training of teachers.
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Worlds of Education 11 June 2019 “Prohibiting violence and harassment in the world of work”, by David Edwards.
David Edwards
More than 800 million women have experienced some form of violence and harassment, ranging from physical assault to verbal abuse, bullying and intimidation. #MeToo and similar movements have helped expose the scale of the problem in the world of work, encouraging women to speak out and demand justice. Whilst women...
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News 31 May 2019 Members of New Zealand teacher unions unite in largest teachers' strike in New Zealand history
Almost 50,000 New Zealand teachers take to the streets to advocate for a higher education budget.
Members of New Zealand teacher unions unite in largest teachers' strike in New Zealand history