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   Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 27 June 2024

   Upholding professional teaching standards matters

   Ella Mokgalane

   Countries without professional standards deprive their education and teaching workforce of quality and professional excellence. As part of its theory of change, the South African Council for Educators (SACE) adopted the concept of Professional Teaching Standards to provide a common language and vision of the profession that all teachers can...

   Upholding professional teaching standards matters

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   Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 26 January 2024

   International Day of Education: Unionists celebrate the right to education by campaigning for quality public education for all

   On January 24, the International Day of Education, education unionists from around the world came together to reaffirm their commitment to the universal right to education and to mark the first year of the Education International global campaign Go Public! Fund Education. The campaign is an urgent call for governments...

   International Day of Education: Unionists celebrate the right to education by campaigning for quality public education for all

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   Standards and working conditions 13 September 2023

   Elevating Teachers' Voices to the High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession

   Educators from around the world expressed their concerns about the global teacher shortage, sharing firsthand experiences which highlight the detrimental implications for their classrooms and school communities. Their testimonies were part of consultations organised by Education International to bring the voices of educators to the UN High-Level Panel on the...

   Elevating Teachers' Voices to the High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession

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   Union renewal and development 9 January 2023

   Africa: Education unions benefit from South-South development cooperation and solidarity

   The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (SADTU) has undertaken a series of development cooperation activities with other education unions affiliated to Education International in neighbouring countries. It has especially supported the Zambia National Union of Teachers (ZNUT) in its efforts to recover from the damaging impact of the COVID-19 pandemic...

   Africa: Education unions benefit from South-South development cooperation and solidarity

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   Equity and inclusion 9 June 2022

   Labels belong on bottles - not people

   Charles Adams

   NAPTOSA is the second largest teachers’ union in South Africa serving education through its legacy organisations since 1904. The NAPTOSA leadership and membership represent the racial diversity of the country and are inclusive of the LGBTQI+ community.

   Labels belong on bottles - not people

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   Equity and inclusion 21 December 2021

   Expanding Vaccines Beyond Our Borders

   Randi Weingarten, Mugwena Maluleke

   If there is one thing we never see again, let it be a crematorium waiting list. Let temporary morgue tents be just that—temporary. We have the capacity to make that happen—to prepare for the next global public health crisis, so we never see this level of chaos and destruction again,...

   Expanding Vaccines Beyond Our Borders