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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 June 2014 Australia: Privatisation drive endangers quality education for all
Australia’s biggest education union has lashed out at its Prime Minister’s plan to launch corporate-run schools, arguing that the move would increase inequity in the system, waste scarce resources, and rob students of a quality education.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 June 2014 DRC: Nearly one third of Congolese teachers work without pay
Despite significant gains among the teaching ranks over the past decade, a large portion of Congolese teachers are not getting paid, and in 2012, 2.5 million school age children were not in school.
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Equity and inclusion 12 June 2014 World Day against Child Labour: new EI resource manual for teachers
Every year, Education International (EI) marks the World Day against Child Labour (WDACL) on 12 June to encourage education unions to organise public activities showing the commitment of teachers and education support personnel to eradicating child labour, and promote quality public education for all children.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 11 June 2014 Declining aid to education is putting development at risk
In the past two years, the countries furthest from reaching the education goals have experienced the hardest cuts, putting development targets out of reach and leaving millions of children out of school, says UNESCO’s EFA Global Monitoring Report
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Trade union rights are human rights 11 June 2014 Djibouti: Government repression of teachers continues to worsen
Teachers’ union reaches out to Education International for support amid ongoing government measures to remove educators from the classroom and the civil service list, including the union’s general secretary and other high-level members.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 10 June 2014 UK: Education unions disappointed by Queen’s speech
The National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) and the National Union of Teachers (NUT), two of EI’s national affiliates in the UK, have reacted with disappointment to the latest Queen’s speech to Parliament. Both unions are unhappy with the fact that education issues were not mentioned.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 6 June 2014 Education makes the post-2015 UN development goal shortlist
Education overcame its latest hurdle to be included as one of the post-2015 development goals leading up to the UN General Assembly in September, where a vote will decide the priorities for the next 15 years.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 6 June 2014 Education makes the post-2015 development goal shortlist
Education overcame its latest hurdle to be included as one of the post-2015 development goals leading up to the UN General Assembly in September, where a vote will decide the priorities for the next 15 years.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 5 June 2014 Quality Educators for All Project to receive top award
EI and Oxfam Novib’s Quality Educators for All Project has been selected as one of the three winners of the 2014 UNESCO-Hamdan Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum Prize for Outstanding Practice and Performance in Enhancing the Effectiveness of Teachers.
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Trade union rights are human rights 5 June 2014 EI defends educators’ rights at International Labour Conference
In an address to the 103rd International Labour Conference General Assembly in Geneva on 4 June, EI Deputy General Secretary, Haldis Holst, asked the delegates to support the Unite for Quality Education campaign and underlined the importance of the joint work between EI and the different sections of the International...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 5 June 2014 103rd session of the International Labour Conference
From 28 May to 12 June representatives from workers’ organisations, employers’ organisations and governments convene for the tripartite dialogue in Geneva to review the implementation of international labour standards and discuss employment issues.
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Union renewal and development 5 June 2014 Urgent Action appeal for Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia & Herzegovina
EI called upon all its affiliates to support the member organisations in Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia & Herzegovina where the most disastrous floods in 120 years have badly affected the region.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 5 June 2014 Teacher trade unions in Europe and the United States call on President Obama and President of the European Commission Barroso to safeguard quality education in TTIP
A common letter by Education International, ETUCE, AFT and NEA calls on US President Obama and President of the European Commission Barroso to safeguard quality education in TTIP.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 5 June 2014 Equality Recommendations Proposed
The ETUCE Standing Committee for Equality proposed a set of recommendations in its last meeting on 2-3 June 2014. The recommendations shall be presented for adoption to the ETUCE Committee in October 2014.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 4 June 2014 International Trade Partnership threatens public education
The European and US member organisations of Education International have joined their voices to those of the AFL-CIO and the European Trade Union Confederation, who have raised concerns about the scope and effects of the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which is under negotiation currently between representatives of...
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Union growth 4 June 2014 Ghana: Education unionists’ solidarity with abducted Nigerian school girls
The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), one of EI’s national affiliates, has organised a meeting to demand the release of the kidnapped Nigerian girls and to support the girls’ right to education.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 3 June 2014 Morocco: Wide gaps in education achievement
EI will host a conference in Beirut, Lebanon, from 6-8 June for its Arab country affiliates to assess their governments’ progress with the implementation of education for all. The conference, forms part of EI’s Unite for Quality Education campaign which aims to make education central to the post-2015 development goals.
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Equity and inclusion 3 June 2014 India: Women’s network plan ahead
A South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) women’s network planning meeting was organised recently by the EI Asia-Pacific regional office, together with two affiliates, the All India Federation of Teachers’ Organisation (AIFTO) and Lärarförbundet from Sweden.
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