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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 18 November 2016 Francophone education unions mobilise for achievement of SDGs
Numerous Francophone education unions have pushed for the realisation of the sustainable development goal on education, and discussed ways to improve basic education in their countries, and in particular in Madagascar.
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Union renewal and development 17 November 2016 Upcoming eventsUpcoming events
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Union renewal and development 17 November 2016 Latin AmericaLatin America
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Union renewal and development 17 November 2016 EuropeEurope
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Union renewal and development 17 November 2016 Asia-PacificAsia-Pacific
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Union renewal and development 17 November 2016 AfricaAfrica
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Union renewal and development 17 November 2016 WorldwideWorldwide
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Leading the profession 17 November 2016 African research leaders ready to influence education policy development and develop quality education
African researchers and union leaders are coming together in Accra, Ghana, to showcase the use by African education unions of compelling evidence-based research to strengthen their advocacy work and shape education policy.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 17 November 2016 IFHERC: Challenges still to be faced in tertiary education and research
Academic freedom, international solidarity, gender, casualisation and privatisation came under the spotlight at Education International’s 10th International Further and Higher Education and Research Conference, attended by leaders of tertiary education and research.
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Union growth 16 November 2016 Voyage to international conference becomes an odyssey for Colombian academic
Miguel Angel Beltrán, a prominent academic invited to deliver a keynote on free speech at Education International’s higher education conference in Ghana had to once again overcome political discrimination in order to reach his destination.
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Union renewal and development 16 November 2016 Death of Elie Jouen, former EI Deputy General Secretary
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Elie Jouen, who was Deputy General Secretary at Education International from its foundation until he retired shortly after the Berlin Congress, in 2008.
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Union renewal and development 15 November 2016 European education unions welcome new ETUCE director
Education International is pleased to announce the appointment of Susan Flocken as the new European Director of ETUCE (European Trade Union Committee for Education), the European Region of EI.
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Union growth 15 November 2016 Canada: teachers are victorious as bargaining rights acknowledged by Supreme Court
After a hard-fought and divisive judicial battle, British Columbia’s educators are celebrating a Supreme Court decision that reaffirms collective bargaining rights and opens the door to the hiring of hundreds of teachers.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 13 November 2016 The trade unions of the Francophonie place education under the microscope
The Francophone Trade Union Committee for Education and Training is meeting in Madagascar to share the French-speaking perspective on union rights to the precarious position of teachers and the private financing of education.
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Union renewal and development 10 November 2016 US Elections: "Though we are disheartened, we must not lose heart."
The election of Donald Trump has stunned the American education unions NEA and AFT. Both unions have actively campaigned for the election of Hillary Clinton who had promised to give quality public education for all a prominent place on her political agenda.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 10 November 2016 Further and Higher Education and Research leaders gather for the first time in Africa to elevate sectors’ status
Leaders of tertiary education and research are coming together in Accra, Ghana, to tackle the increasingly changing and challenging conditions facing the further, higher education and research sectors around the world.
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Climate action and literacy 10 November 2016 Education unions want COP22 to be the “action COP”
Education unions at the 22nd Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change have insisted that this conference be the “action COP”, enabling the implementation process of last year’s formally adopted Paris Agreement.
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Climate action and literacy 10 November 2016 Education unions want COP22 to be the “action COP”
Education unions at the 22nd Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change have insisted that this conference be the “action COP”, enabling the implementation process of last year’s formally adopted Paris Agreement.
Education unions want COP22 to be the “action COP”