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News 12 December 2017 The Netherlands: Strike action to protect quality primary education
Dutch educators are on strike today (12 December), demanding decent salaries and a normal workload. They are also urging the government to clearly and firmly address burn out and a shortage in teachers in primary education.
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News 11 December 2017 UK: Workload driving teachers out of profession – union survey
Workload is the biggest barrier to young teachers making the profession their career, UK young teachers have highlighted.
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Worlds of Education 7 December 2017 Is teaching still a profession where you are?
Maurie Mulheron, Tom Alegounarias
The de-regulation drums are beating. Most of us can hear them, even if for some of us, the luckier ones, the beat is still dull and distant.
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News 27 November 2017 Mauritania: teacher unions united in call to save the national education system
Faced with the chronic shortage of teachers in the country, the use of contract teachers and an increasing privatisation in education, the trade unions have called on public authorities to urgently remedy the situation and parents to mobilise to save the national education system.
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News 24 November 2017 Togo: education trade unions join forces to improve teachers' living and working conditions
Public sector primary and secondary education teachers embarked on a three-day strike to obtain better living and working conditions from the Togolese government.
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Worlds of Education 21 November 2017 #WDR2018 Reality Check #4: Realizing education’s promise: teachers are the solution, not the problem.
Howard Stevenson
The World Bank’s 2018 world development report, with its focus on education and the need ‘to realize education’s promise’, is a welcome, if perhaps surprising, step forward. The report scores highly on intent, but it must work with teachers, not against them, if the report’s ambitions are to become a...
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News 14 November 2017 Belgium: Unions shed light on increasingly difficult job of being a teacher
Teaching is a ‘difficult’ job, according to a thousand educators at one of the largest teacher gatherings ever organised in Belgium.
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Worlds of Education 9 November 2017 The future of education unionism
John McCollow
Teacher (or education) unions are organizations formed to protect and advance the collective interests of teachers and other education workers. What those collective interests entail and how they should be pursued have been and remain active matters for debate.
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Worlds of Education 7 November 2017 #WDR2018 Reality Check #2: Teacher working conditions are student learning conditions: Lost opportunities in World Bank education report
Leo Baunach
The dedicated reader of the 2018 World Development Report (WDR) on learning and education will find moments of nuanced discussion. Unfortunately, these gems are brief caveats to flawed headlines and conclusions. The World Bank report valorizes professional teaching while degrading the voices and needs of teachers.
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Worlds of Education 5 November 2017 Academic freedom and the 1997 UNESCO Recommendation: a view from Europe
Rob Copeland
For unions in the higher education and research sector, this year’s World Teachers’ Day takes on the greatest significance.
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Worlds of Education 5 November 2017 Five ways to empower teachers and drive learning progress
Fred van Leeuwen
On World Teachers’ Day, let’s have a look at what teachers need to be more effective in the classroom
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Worlds of Education 31 October 2017 #WDR2018 Reality Check #0: Education experts and activists respond to the World Development Report
Jennifer Ulrick
Does the report live up to its promise or leave much to be desired? In a new EI blog series, education experts and activists unpack, critique and challenge the insights of the WDR.
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News 30 October 2017 Francophone education unions assemble to improve the teaching profession
After meeting in Dakar, the Board of the Comité Syndical Francophone pour l’Education et la Formation committed to promoting quality public education accessible to all, as well as increase vibrant and respected teacher trade unionism.
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News 25 October 2017 UK: Flexible working needed to solve recruitment and retention crisis
Better part-time and flexible working opportunities can help solve the teacher recruitment and retention crisis in the UK, say education unions in response to the latest National Foundation for Educational Research’s report.
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Research Twenty years later: International efforts to protect the rights of higher education teaching personnel remain insufficient
Nelly P. Stromquist
18 October 2017Twenty years later: International efforts to protect the rights of higher education teaching personnel remain insufficientThe prevailing discourse on higher education has raised a voice concerning quality, equality, and equity—all centered on students. Surprisingly, such discussions have remained relatively silent on another set of actors crucial to the teaching/learning process: higher education personnel.
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News 12 October 2017 Education International’s Asia-Pacific leaders gather to tackle regional challenges
Asia-Pacific education union leaders reiterated their commitment to quality education for all, working towards countering for-profit education privatisation, increasing teacher professionalism and demanding respect for educators’ human and trade union rights.
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News 9 October 2017 France: Educators unite in defence of public service
The French affiliates of Education International are mobilising on 10 October to defend civil servants’ purchasing power and working conditions as they press for improvements in the quality of public services.
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News 6 October 2017 Palestine: education union works to empower teachers
On the occasion of World Teachers’ Day, Palestinian education unionists strongly highlighted the need for teachers in their country and worldwide, to be empowered to provide quality education for all students.
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