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News 30 April 2020 Education International Guidance on Reopening Schools and Education Institutions
As a growing number of countries are considering easing restrictions and gradually resuming onsite education, Education International stresses a set of five dimensions that should be considered by governments, in dialogue with educators and their unions, when planning this next phase of the response to the COVID-19 crisis in education.
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Publications EI Guidance to Reopening Schools and Education Institutions
30 April 2020EI Guidance to Reopening Schools and Education InstitutionsWith schools and education institutions closed in a majority of countries, there are critical issues for governments to take into consideration, as countries gradually begin to re-open early childhood institutions, schools and higher education institutions. It is imperative that governments communicate transparently and continuously about the plans for reopening onsite...
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News 29 April 2020 Jordan: Non-payment of teacher salaries in the private sector affecting mainly women
Despite continuing their work online, teachers in private schools in Jordan are not being paid their full salaries. Most of the teachers affected are women. Education International urges the Jordanian government to guarantee the fundamental rights of teachers and education workers and update national legislation to prohibit gender discrimination at...
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News 15 April 2020 Germany: Education union raises concerns around reopening of schools
A German education union has voiced its concern at proposals to reopen schools closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Issues to safeguard educator and student health include addressing how social distancing will operate in classrooms, the wearing of face masks, and infection prevention in facilities and public transport.
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Publications Guiding principles on the COVID-19 pandemic
27 March 2020Guiding principles on the COVID-19 pandemicThe following principles and recommendations should guide the responses of education unions, governments and partners to COVID-19.
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News 26 February 2020 UK: Retention crisis looming as teachers dissatisfied with pay conditions
Key education unions in the UK have warned that a majority of teachers have already considered leaving the profession due to pay concerns.
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News 30 January 2020 The Netherlands: Strike action demands government funding of education and teachers
Education International strongly supports the Netherlands’ education staff who are set to strike again – they are seeking appropriate and sustainable funding in the public education sector. Most Dutch schools will be closed from 30-31 January.
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News 20 January 2020 UK: Unions highlight shortcomings of Ofsted report on ‘stuck’ schools’
Education unions in the UK have said that a report detailing how some schools have improved and others have not does not paint the full picture, and school inspection must be reviewed.
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News 17 January 2020 Global education trade union community mourns Australian Justice Trevor Olsson
Education International salutes the memory of Trevor Olsson, a highly respected jurist from Australia on the Joint International Labour Organisation/UNESCO Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendations concerning Teaching Personnel. Justice Olsson did much to promote the status of teachers over his 21 years of service.
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News 4 December 2019 France: education union activists overwhelmingly opposed to government pension reform
Education International is supporting the education unions currently gearing up for full participation in a general strike planned for Thursday 5 December and likely to last some time. The unions are opposing the pension reform proposed by the French government, with the number of strikers potentially set to reach over...
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News 27 November 2019 40th UNESCO General Conference: Teachers and educators at the core of achieving SDG 4
Education International and its member organisations have been active at UNESCO’s 40th General Conference, where teachers and educators were high on the agenda.
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News 16 November 2019 Teachers and UNESCO team up to define professionalism for teaching and learning across the world
Education International (EI) and UNESCO launch a joint framework that will define what quality teaching means, now and in the future. The Global Framework of Professional Teaching Standards was launched today in front of education ministers, EI member organisations and policy experts at UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris.
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Worlds of Education 14 November 2019 #SABERexposed "Teachers in the World Bank's SABER", by Melanie Baker Robbins.
Melanie Baker Robbins
This blog post presents two major critiques of the SABER-Teachers domain: The World Bank’s inconsistent use of empirical evidence in order to promote policies that reflect its ideological biases related to teachers and the teaching profession, and the way the SABER-Teachers domain framework paper serves to de-professionalize teachers.
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Publications Global framework of professional teaching standards
Jointly developed by Education International and UNESCO
4 November 2019Global framework of professional teaching standardsThe joint Education International/ UNESCO framework on the development of professional teaching standards aims to improve teacher quality, teaching and learning, as well as support the implementation and monitoring of the teacher target in the Education 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and specifically Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4).
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Worlds of Education 30 October 2019 “Teachers – Being in Control or Being Controlled?”, by Jim Baker.
Jim Baker
The status and role of professional teachers are affected by global efforts to make schools reason and operate like private companies even in some schools systems that may appear untouched by market reform fervour. A publication released last month on the profession addresses, in different contexts, the impact of that...
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Worlds of Education 22 October 2019 “Education International. Eighth World Congress”, by John Bangs.
John Bangs
The online magazine ‘Education Journal’ recently published in its edition 385 a report of Education International’s eighth World Congress in Bangkok by EI Senior Consultant, John Bangs. Education Journal has agreed to its publication for Worlds of Education. It has been slightly edited for EI’s global audience.
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News 18 October 2019 Ghana: unions sit down with ministries to achieve quality education
A seminar dedicated to strengthening social dialogue brought together over 60 ministry officials and unionists from 13 countries, with curriculum and teacher professionalism in the spotlight.
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News 16 October 2019 Congo: education workers reaffirm their desire to make their union strong and sustainable
World Teachers’ Day provided an opportunity for education unionists in the Republic of Congo to highlight the key role the teaching profession plays in achieving each individual’s potential and the need for a union with strong management that is taken seriously by the public authorities and is able to collaborate...
Congo: education workers reaffirm their desire to make their union strong and sustainable