Our work in this area
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Research Understanding the invisible workforce: Education support personnel’s roles, needs and the challenges they face
Philippa Butler
16 May 2019Understanding the invisible workforce: Education support personnel’s roles, needs and the challenges they faceEducation Support Personnel (ESP) play a vital role in promoting quality education, fostering a safe and positive learning environment for all students, and ensuring that schools and educational institutions function effectively. ESP cover a wide range of people working in the education sector, and despite being an essential part of...
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Worlds of Education 16 May 2019 “Education Support Personnel: Shining light on the invisible workforce”, by Philippa Butler.
Philippa Butler
Education Support Personnel (ESP) are a vital part of the education workforce. They help to do all the background tasks and hidden duties that ensure that teachers can teach and students can learn. Together with teachers and school leaders, ESP are responsible for creating and sustaining a school culture where...
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News 29 April 2019 Argentina: Education unions unite in national strike
Education International extends its support and solidarity to Argentinian workers in their call for a National Strike on Tuesday, 30th April.
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News 25 April 2019 European Education trade unionists to join large rally for a fairer Europe for workers – 26 April
The European Trade Union Committee for Education has called on European education unionists and activists to take part in a large-scale demonstration, “A Fairer Europe for Workers”, on 26 April.
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News 24 April 2019 UK: Solidarity, democracy and unity high on the agendas of education trade unions
During their annual conferences, the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers and the National Education Union, both affiliated to Education International, have reasserted during their annual conferences their core values and determination to continue advocating education policies beneficial for educators and students.
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News 9 April 2019 Poland: ZNP calls strike over education salaries after government turned a deaf ear to their demands
Despite efforts to come to an agreement with public authorities, Poland’s teachers and other education workers are following the call by the education union Zwiazek Nauczycielstwa Polskiego to go on strike to demand higher salaries.
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Worlds of Education 25 March 2019 “Finland leads the way”, by David Edwards.
David Edwards
Sometimes it appears that hope is draining from the world and that, for both young and old, pessimism is becoming the default position. The trouble with pessimism is that it is negative. It annuls the ability to act; to create something better which benefits future generations. I believe that education...
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News 15 March 2019 European education union leaders in solidarity with Dutch colleagues
The Committee of the Education International’s European region, the European Trade Union Committee for Education, has called on the public authorities of Netherlands to ensure decent working conditions and salaries for Dutch educators.
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Worlds of Education 15 March 2019 “Early Childhood Education – the start of lifelong learning – but build upon play and well-being”, by Lasse Bjerg Jørgensen.
Lasse Bjerg Jørgensen
At last Early Childhood Education (ECE) is on the agenda of an International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP). At this year’s Summit, ISTP 2019, the importance of ECE for lifelong learning and well-being is now, for the first time, one of the Summit’s three plenary themes.
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Worlds of Education 14 March 2019 “Success comes only to those countries that invest in education”, by Olli Luukkainen and David Edwards.
Olli Luukkainen, David Edwards
Humanity is faced with many threats including climate change and threats to the environment. A vision is needed for these problems to be solved. Changing lifestyles and consumption habits can contribute to solving these problems but at the heart of helping humanity to survive is education, training and research.
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News 14 March 2019 Iraq: Kurdistan’s education unionists take stock of obstacles to quality education system
Education unionists from the Kurdistan region of Iraq have reaffirmed the need for public authorities to allocate adequate funding for quality education and teachers.
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News 13 March 2019 UK: Union deplores weak legal protection of academic freedom
Following the findings of a major report on academic freedom in the United Kingdom, the University and College Union has submitted an allegation to the Joint International Labour Organisation/UNESCO Committee of Experts regarding the non-compliance of the UK government's with the 1997 UNESCO Recommendation on the status of higher education...
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News 13 March 2019 Iraq: The region and education system of Kurdistan pass into oblivion
The Kurdistan Teachers' Union (KTU) issued a distress call about the deplorable situation of teachers in the public education system, which continues to deteriorate in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
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Worlds of Education 11 March 2019 "Let´s work together – Looking forward to ISTP 2019 in Finland", by Anders Rusk
Anders Rusk
We received good news in the beginning of autumn 2018 when we were told that Finland was appointed host country for the International Summit on the Teaching Profession 2019. This was something we in the Opetusalan Ammattijärjestö, OAJ, had lobbied, for before, without success. We are proud to contribute to...
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News 6 March 2019 Teachers’ professional development and conditions - vital signs for student well-being and progress
An Education international - commissioned study for the EI Research Institute on teacher professional identities, based on seven localities and five case studies, shows that teachers are concerned about the well-being and progress of students. They also consider professional development and learning central to that mission along with professional standing...
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News 4 March 2019 Germany: A collective agreement with an 8 % salary increase for public workers
Fruitful negotiations between public authorities and public service trade unions, including education unions affiliated to Education International, have led to salary increase of 8 % for public workers.
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News 1 March 2019 Australia: education union and activists will make the 2019 federal election the ‘education election’
At their Federal conference, Australian Education Union’ leaders and activists welcomed the commitment made by the Labour party to greatly increase funding for public education, and reaffirmed their determination to ensure that the upcoming federal election focus on education issues.
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Research Constructing teachers’ professional identities
Philippa Cordingley
28 February 2019Constructing teachers’ professional identitiesThis study aims at examining how teachers’ professional identities are constructed in seven contrasting education systems. The jurisdictions - Berlin, Chile, Kenya, Ontario, Scotland, Singapore and Sweden - were selected to achieve an economic and geographical balance and a range of contexts in relation to educational performance and teacher supply...