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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 March 2015 Teachers called to create the World’s Largest Lesson
Education International and its global partners have launched the World’s Largest Lesson Plan, a project which invites the world’s teachers to educate and popularise the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals, to be launched in September.
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Union renewal and development 25 March 2015 Students and teachers mourned after plane crashes in French Alps
Education International has offered its sincere condolences to the families of those lost in yesterday’s tragic plane crash, which took the lives of 150 people, including 16 students from the Joseph-König-Gymnasium in Haltern, Germany.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 24 March 2015 Final countdown to shape the Post-2015 UN development agenda
As negotiations on the United Nations new development agenda, known as the Post-2015 process, have entered the final stage, Education International is working to ensure the goals are evaluated in line with human rights standards.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 24 March 2015 Pearson caught spying on students
The American Federation of Teachers was aghast to discover that the world’s largest edu-business has undertaken a new activity, moving from administering tests to online surveillance to monitor American students’ social media activity in search of cheaters.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 24 March 2015 Spain’s universities go on strike against government reform
Public higher education is shutting down today in Spain, as teachers, support staff and students close ranks against the latest government’s reforms, arguing that they open the path to privatisation and hamper access for all.
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Union renewal and development 23 March 2015 Executive Board engaged in final preparations for World Congress
Diverse congress business, including policy papers, resolutions and awardees, are high on the agenda of the 44th Education International Executive Board meeting, with just four months to go before the organisation’s key political event.
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Equity and inclusion 19 March 2015 Indigenous education gains progress in Brazil
Brazil’s national education union has taken a major step towards boosting the status of indigenous education within the national system after hosting its First National Indigenous Educators’ Meeting in Sao Paulo this month.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 19 March 2015 Stakes are high for education in trade agreements
With the fate of education currently being negotiated in global free-trade talks, Martin Rømer, Director of the European Trade Union Committee for Education, spoke with RadioLabour about the possible consequences.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 18 March 2015 Zimbabwe: qualified teachers are the answer to filling the recruitment gap
Teacher unionists aren’t happy with the government’s decision to recruit more than 20,000 unqualified teachers to fill empty posts, which account for nearly a fifth of the country’s teaching force in primary and secondary schools.
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Union renewal and development 16 March 2015 High-level meeting highlights common priorities of Mexican union and Education International
The defence of quality public education and teachers’ rights are at the centre of discussions between Education International and the Mexican teachers’ union SNTE, the largest in Latin America, in view of SNTE’s application for membership with EI.
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Trade union rights are human rights 16 March 2015 UK: Government publishes schools asbestos review
The UK government has published the findings of its asbestos policy in schools review after bowing to education unions’ sustained pressure to go public, but critics say if still falls short.
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Trade union rights are human rights 13 March 2015 Myanmar: trade unions condemn the terrible crackdown on students
Education International has demanded that Myanmar’s public authorities stop the violent crackdown on student protests calling for changes to the National Education Law, and include them along educators’ representatives in the parliamentary discussions.
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Union growth 13 March 2015 Korea: Unions defend teachers on multiple fronts
Korean teacher unions are actively defending their members’ status in moves to ensure that teachers’ pensions are protected benefit and that legal assistance is on-hand to protect their rights.
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Equity and inclusion 13 March 2015 Gender equality, women’s human rights and empowerment within and beyond the post-2015 agenda
Education International has co-sponsored a panel discussion focusing on the key priorities for gender equality, women’s human rights and empowerment in the new post-2015 sustainable development framework to be agreed by United Nations’ member states this fall.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 March 2015 Education stories hit the big screen in America’s capital
This week in Washington D.C. the classroom enters the cinema to present education in ways not commonly seen, helping to provoke new ideas, debate, and the chance to reveal how film can unlock potential.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 11 March 2015 UNESCO: close the financing gap in education and end gender-based violence
In its latest reports, UNESCO calls for the need to adequately finance education to ensure quality education for all, and sounds the alarm on school-related gender-based violence.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 11 March 2015 Belgium: Overcrowded schools at odds with government cuts
As the Belgian Government forges ahead with unpopular austerity measures aimed at tackling the country’s debt and sagging economy, opponents pointed to overcrowded schools as the glaring example of unkept promises, and called for action.
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Equity and inclusion 10 March 2015 New York: Trade union delegation demands more from their governments
Global Union delegations at the UN are urging member states to make a stronger commitment to women’s economic rights on the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and in the new sustainable development goals.
New York: Trade union delegation demands more from their governments