Articles from Cameroon
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Leading the profession 6 June 2024 Campaigning for education funding in Cameroon: new energy to transform education
As Cameroon prepares for a crucial election year, education unions - the Fédération Camerounaise des Syndicats de l’Éducation (FECASE) and the Fédération des Syndicats de l'Enseignement et de la Recherche (FESER) - are mobilising to make the funding of public education a national priority. Spearheaded by Education International's Go public!...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 March 2024 Cameroon: Teachers leverage Go Public! Fund Education campaign to improve status and conditions
“The UN High Level Panel on the Teaching Profession recommendations are universally relevant, addressing teacher issues in Cameroon and elsewhere.”
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Standards and working conditions 30 November 2023 Early childhood educators: New data on the challenges they face raises the alarm about an education sector at risk
Isidora Vitorović
Research by Education International reveals that early childhood education (ECE) personnel have been among the education workers whose employment conditions were most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Preliminary findings of an ongoing research also identify this chronically underfunded sector as one of the most threatened by the global teacher shortage.
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Standards and working conditions 10 October 2023 Educator well-being in focus: International report reveals alarming challenges
A milestone report launched on World Mental Health Day, offers a comprehensive look at the health and well-being of education personnel worldwide.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 23 June 2023 Go Public! Finance quality, equitable, and inclusive education in Africa
Top education union leaders from Cameroon, Malawi, Rwanda, and Zambia took stock of gains in their fight against education privatisation through the Education International (EI) Global Response campaign and committed to continue these efforts through EI's Go Public! Fund Education campaign to mobilise to fully fund public education systems and...
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Standards and working conditions 24 April 2023 In Cameroon, the teaching profession is losing confidence
Geneviève Ngo Djon
The situation of Cameroonian teachers has changed considerably, as their fortunes follow those of the economy, going from bad to worse. In fact, while the living and working conditions of teachers went from strength to strength from 1960 to 1984, they have gone in the opposite direction since 1993, the...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 11 January 2023 Transforming education: what role will be given to textbooks and under what conditions?
Roger Kaffo Fokou
On 16, 17 and 19 September 2022, the World Summit on the Transformation of Education was held in New York. Its aim was to find a suitable response to the education crisis. At stake, and beyond the challenge of equity and equality, is the adaptation of education systems to their...
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Union renewal and development 21 October 2022 Cameroon: the urgent need for trade union renewal in a time of severe restrictions on freedoms
Roger Kaffo Fokou
The struggle for freedom is common to women and men throughout the world and throughout time. Like Sisyphus' rock, we never finish trying to get to the top of the mountain. But the context is never the same and, at the same time as each struggle is individual to one...
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Union renewal and development 25 August 2022 The winds of trade union change blow across Africa
A webinar organised by Education International’s regional office for Africa (EIRAF) was the opportunity for an enriching and useful exchange of experiences of trade union renewal between member organisations in Cameroon, Mali, Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire.
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Union renewal and development 5 April 2022 Amplifying young voices within trade unions in the COVID-19 new normal
Education International has joined other global union federations (GUFs) in a project aiming to promote union renewal and train young unionists.
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Trade union rights are human rights 14 March 2022 Cameroon: The government must respect the unions as partners in social dialogue
Faced with the rise of anarchic and disorganised teacher protest movements on social networks, Cameroon's education unions are stressing the urgency of holding social dialogue in good faith. They have asked the public authorities to respond as quickly as possible to the many teacher demands and to keep their promises.
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Union renewal and development 27 October 2021 Solidarity in times of crisis: the EI COVID Response Fund
As the COVID-19 pandemic became global, education unions showed solidarity with a dedicated COVID Response Fund to support member organisations during school closures and where teachers were hit by the health crisis.
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Democracy 31 August 2021 Cameroon: Education organisations’ joint project for democracy and union renewal
Education International and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES, German acronym) are working together in Cameroon on a capacity building project, “Union renewal: building strong, inclusive, democratic and effective unions in the education sector in Cameroon”. The project involving all of Education International’s national member organisations will run from 2021 until...
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Union growth 21 October 2020 “Africa: Collaboration between Unions and Governments for a Better Future in Education”, by Cherine Sabry.
Cherine Sabry
Unions and governments have been in conflict since the dawn of time. The mere existence of unions as a force to defend workers’ rights where governments fail to do so in and of itself leads to this conflictual relationship. In Africa, unions have rarely been consulted during the COVID-19 crisis...
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Trade union rights are human rights 21 October 2020 Education International’s affiliates show tremendous solidarity amongst educators through the COVID-19 Response Fund
From the very beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, Education International called on global education union solidarity to help member organisations respond to the sanitary crisis and emerge stronger from it in terms of mobilising, organising and capacity-building.
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Trade union rights are human rights 7 October 2020 Cameroon: Union development during and after the COVID-19 pandemic
A teacher union operating in the private sector has decided to take a series of actions to ensure decent working and living conditions for teachers and also to strengthen its capacities and ensure that teachers’ voices are really heard by the public authorities.
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Trade union rights are human rights 2 June 2020 Cameroon: the resumption of face-to-face classes without proper preliminary planning endangers teachers and students alike
Organised teachers in Cameroon have warned the government that a resumption of classes on 1 June carried out without sufficient preliminary planning would put the educational community in danger. They have especially insisted on reduced class sizes and the provision of masks and hand sanitizer.
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Trade union rights are human rights 27 April 2020 Cameroon: teachers must get more support in developing their skills to help them deliver quality distance education
While acknowledging that teachers had already been offered training to help them develop the skills needed to deliver online classes before the COVID-19 crisis had begun, educators should be better trained in the area according to an education trade union in Cameroon. Authorities should ensure that teachers are well-equipped to...
Cameroon: teachers must get more support in developing their skills to help them deliver quality distance education