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News 27 March 2015 South Africa: Support grows for status change for temporary educators
The Congress of South African Trade Unions has voiced its support for the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union’s demand that educators employed on temporary contracts become permanent employees. This is a significant vote of support as the Congress of South African Trade Unions is that country’s national trade union confederation.
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News 9 March 2015 German educators take to the streets demanding better work conditions
The Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft, together with other public sector unions, is organising strikes across Germany in pursuit of a salary increase and a collective agreement for the 200,000 teachers employed in public schools.
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News 5 March 2015 Education leaders call for an end to harsh accountability demands
Stringent accountability demands imposed on schools, education leaders and teachers by governments harm and undermine professional autonomy and quality education for all, was the key message from EI’s conference on educational leadership held in Amsterdam.
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Research The Status of Teachers and the Teaching Profession
Vasileios Symeonidis
3 March 2015The Status of Teachers and the Teaching ProfessionThis 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,...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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News 19 December 2014 TALIS study exposes teachers’ main challenges in the classroom
The latest TALIS report released by the OECD focuses on primary and upper secondary teachers and highlights the challenges they face to carry out their work.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,...
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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.
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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.
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News 3 July 2014 Norwegian teachers say enough is enough, kick-off July by hitting the picket lines
Classes may not be in session, but members of Union of Education Norway are making sure their powerful message is heard no matter the season.
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News 3 July 2014 Norwegian teachers say enough is enough, kick-off July by hitting the picket lines
Classes may not be in session, but for members of Union of Education Norway, they’re making sure their powerful message is heard no matter the season.
Norwegian teachers say enough is enough, kick-off July by hitting the picket lines