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Equity and inclusion 17 February 2017 #1DayWithoutUs in the UK: UCU celebrates migrants' contribution
20 February is United Nations World Day of Social Justice and the University and College Union is supporting the One Day Without Us mobilisation which invites supporters to celebrate the contribution migrants make by taking part in a unifying action: at 1pm all migrants and their supporters are invited to...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 16 February 2017 Europe: Educators to continue fight against CETA
After the European Parliament voted in favour of the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, educators will continue to fight this treaty that threatens to erode public education.
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Equity and inclusion 16 February 2017 Australian academics launch petition to protest US Executive Order
The National Tertiary Education Union condemns US president Donald Trump’s executive order suspending visas for nationals from seven Muslim majority countries. It shared the concerns raised by academic and university communities worldwide that this extreme order poses a direct threat to intellectual and academic freedom, and academic exchange and collaboration.The...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 15 February 2017 Canada: school counsellors take on a central role within school communities
From emotional support to preparing students for future careers, Canada’s school counsellors are experiencing a shift in school practice to see them increasingly become more integral to the lives of young people.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 15 February 2017 Tanzania: Competence profile a key step towards quality early childhood education
Together with Education International’s Dennis Sinyolo, Prosper Lubuva, from the Tanzania Teachers’ Unions discusses challenges in early childhood education, and increasing early childhood educators’ professionalism through the development of a competence profile.
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Leading the profession 15 February 2017 Finland: new oath for teachers introduced by union
The teachers’ union, Opetusalan Ammattijärjestö, has introduced a new oath for teachers to take. The oath outlines principles of the profession and underscores the value of their work.
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Leading the profession 14 February 2017 Dutch government asked to explain backing of for-profit education
Dutch socialist party MPs have asked their Ministry for Foreign Trade and Development to take a stance on its support of Bridge International Academies, one of the world’s biggest and most questioned edubusinesses.
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Trade union rights are human rights 14 February 2017 Iranian teacher union leader once again faces possibility serving full prison sentence
Esmail Abdi, a leader of the Tehran Teacher Trade Association, has seen his judicial appeal rejected by Branch 33 of the Supreme Court on 4 February.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 14 February 2017 Belgium’s new education pact not as excellent as it appears
The highly touted Pact of Excellence is under scrutiny as teacher unions express their concern that the effort to improve education in the country’s French-speaking region will harm the vocational sector and increase teacher workloads.
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Union growth 10 February 2017 Education International joins unions’ UN complaint on missing Mexican students
The United Nations Human Rights Council is preparing to hear the complaint filed by Education International and six affiliates on behalf of the 43 Mexican student teachers who disappeared more than two years ago.
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Union growth 10 February 2017 Argentina: death threat puts union freedom at grave risk
A death threat directed at Roberto Baradel, the general secretary of the Argentinian teachers’ union SUTEBA, has driven the union movement to act as many wonder whether their right to organise is now in peril.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 8 February 2017 Mexico celebrates 100 years of education as a public right
The SNTE, Education International’s Mexican affiliate, spared no detail to celebrate 100 years of education as a right for all citizens, at the centennial anniversary of the adoption of its national constitution.
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Equity and inclusion 8 February 2017 FECCOO (Spain) invites students to put themselves in refugees' shoes
As part of its efforts to advocate for migrants’ and refugees’ rights in Spain, the Federación Estatal de Enseñanza de Comisiones Obreras (FECCOO) is carrying out a series of school-based capacity building projects, in collaboration with three education institutions in Catalonia, the Basque and the Valencian Communities. The different activities...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 February 2017 Education International meets with the World Bank to reboot relationship
A long-awaited face-to-face meeting between officials of the two organisations has seen both sides find common ground in their commitment to both strengthening the teaching profession and to fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goal on education.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 6 February 2017 Australia: calls for guaranteed preschool funding are made as government prepares for cuts
Educators have launched a campaign demanding sustainable funding for preschools, which they see as vital for a child’s development, giving them social and educational skills they need to achieve at school.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 6 February 2017 Giving a voice to the “silent army” of education support personnel
In every school teams of education support personnel work alongside teachers to ensure that all students have the opportunity of a quality education, but too often their work and contributions remain out of sight.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 3 February 2017 UK: Brexit outs EU academics
Following the Brexit vote, around 31,000 EU academics in UK universities are being told to make arrangements to leave, some having already decided to comply, putting the expertise of UK universities in serious jeopardy.
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Union renewal and development 2 February 2017 Pacific teacher unions actively engaged stakeholders in 2016
The Council of Pacific Education, an Education International-affiliated umbrella body of teacher organisations in the Pacific, has released the latest issue of its journal, highlighting the wide-ranging work undertaken last year by education unions.
Pacific teacher unions actively engaged stakeholders in 2016