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Trade union rights are human rights 20 August 2015 Yemen: Teachers and children killed in attack
Education International joins the Global Partnership for Education and UNICEF in expressing utmost dismay at the killing of teachers and children in an airstrike in war-torn Yemen.
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Standards and working conditions 20 August 2015 France: Union research sheds light on state of teaching profession
UNSA Education, one of EI’s affiliates in France, has – for the third year in a row – published a study examining the current preoccupations of members of the education workforce in the country.
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Union renewal and development 19 August 2015 The World's Largest Lesson on the home stretch
Less than six weeks are left until the Global Goals for Sustainable Development are launched at the United Nations. To celebrate this, the World’s Largest Lesson will take place in schools around the world. To prepare, a toolkit has been launched.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 18 August 2015 United States: Education Support Personnel hit hard by budget cuts
The educaction community in the United States highlights a worrying trend: shrinking budgets or ending grant money push Education Support Personnel (ESP) into unemployment, reducing overall education employee capacity.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 13 August 2015 Australia: widening gaps in achievement between advantaged and disadvantaged schools
The Australian Education Union has deplored the results of the latest National Assessment Program–Literacy and Numeracy showing huge gaps between advantaged and disadvantaged students and called for targeting funding allocated to schools.
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Union renewal and development 13 August 2015 Progress, Power, Participation: Video Highlights of General Secretary Report
“Our collective efforts show considerable progress on advocacy, capacity building, research, communications, and solidarity…as there is not yet a ‘standardised test’for international organisations, you will have to grade us based on common sense.”
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Trade union rights are human rights 12 August 2015 UK: fighting student violence in schools
Unions respond to data released by the Department for Education that shows the alarming rise of assaults on teachers by pupils, a problem that underlines the need to address student violence within education institutions.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 August 2015 Germany: focus on inclusion and schooling of refugee children is a must
The teacher’s union Verband Bildung und Erziehung has urged public authorities in the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia to bring more attention and financing to inclusive and refugees’ education.
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Standards and working conditions 11 August 2015 Zimbabwe: Union tells Mugabe to reduce ministers not teachers
The Zimbabwe Teachers' Association has firmly condemned plans by the national government to greatly reduce the wage bill in the public sector, including education.
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Union renewal and development 10 August 2015 Hopgood internet highlights: EI is valued but battles remain
Education International is stronger than ever, but so are the challenges – that’s the perspective EI President Hopgood gave some 2,000 delegates in her keynote address to the 7th World Congress in Ottawa.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 7 August 2015 Quality Education For All: Hopeful SDG Signs from New York
Barring unforeseen changes, the United Nations post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals will include education as a standalone goal alongside such critical matters as poverty, hunger and health.
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Standards and working conditions 7 August 2015 Zimbabwe: 3,000 teachers without pay
Government cost-cutting in Zimbabwe aimed at teachers and other public sector workers led to the elimination of salaries for at least 3,000 teachers in July according to news reports.
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Union renewal and development 5 August 2015 Kounka Damianova
Education International and the European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE) have learned with shock and sadness of the passing of Kounka Damianova (66), who led the International Department of the Bulgarian Teachers’ Union (SEB) for many years. Ms Damianova died suddenly at SEB’s headquarters in Sofia on 4 August,...
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Union renewal and development 26 July 2015 Congress welcomes new EI Executive Board
The torch was passed on the last day of Education International’s Seventh World Congress as the new Executive Board was officially welcomed and delegates paid tribute to outgoing members.
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Union renewal and development 26 July 2015 Congress ends on a high note
Commercialisation and privatisation in and of education will be at the heart of Education International’s agenda for the next four years as the organisation concluded a successful Seventh World Congress in Ottawa, Canada.
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Union renewal and development 26 July 2015 Plight of teachers in Korea, Colombia, Nepal, and Iran raised in urgent resolutions
Sungho Byun, President of the Korean Teachers and Education, brought an urgent resolution before Congress in response to the 60 thousand teachers from KTU who lost their union after the government decertified them earlier this year.
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Union renewal and development 26 July 2015 Call for values and end to violence
Several resolutions were passed at Education International’s 7th World Congress on the promotion of democracy, sustainable development, fair trade, basic social service and health and safety through solidarity and cooperation among member organisations, the international trade union movement and civil society.
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Union renewal and development 26 July 2015 Trade union concerns in Arab countries raised
“The situation of trade unions rights in Arab countries remains of grave concern,” said Patrick Roach, of the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers who addressed Congress on Resolution 2.10 Resolution: Issues in the Arab Countries.
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