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  1. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 16 June 2014

    Denmark: Union campaign focuses on teachers' importance to society

    “The future starts at the school” is the title of a new Danish campaign launched by the Danish Union of Teachers (DLF) on 16 June. This campaign focuses on the folkeskole (public schools) and teachers' importance for the individual pupil and the immediate society.

    Denmark: Union campaign focuses on teachers' importance to society
  2. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 16 June 2014

    Promoting a World Cup free of racism

    Education International welcomes the initiative taken by CNTE, its affiliate in Brazil, with the campaign ‘A world cup without racism’. It seeks the teachers’ active involvement against discrimination, from the classroom to the football field.

    Promoting a World Cup free of racism
  3. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 16 June 2014

    Philippines: Union congress pushes quality education forward

    The Teachers’ Organisation of the Philippine Public Sector (TOPPS), focused on EI’s Unite for Quality Education Campaign during its 5th Triennial Congress held from 3-6 May in Brentwood Apartelle, Baguio City. The Congress’s theme was “TOPPS: United for Quality Education for a Better Public Education”.

    Philippines: Union congress pushes quality education forward
  4. Equity and inclusion 16 June 2014

    Conference on homophobic and Transphobic School bullying in Europe

    On 10 and 11 June 2914, European stakeholders in the field of education and discrimination prevention convened in Athens to exchange good practices and identify barriers and challenges concerning the prevention of bullying in schools, in particular on grounds of homophobia and transphobia.

    Conference on homophobic and Transphobic School bullying in Europe
  5. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 16 June 2014

    Successful ETUCE round table meetings on the potentials of social dialogue in Slovenia and Croatia

    On 4th and 5th June 2014, ETUCE held its second and third round table meeting within the project “Promoting the potentials of the European sectoral social dialogue in education by addressing new challenges and exploring experience and knowledge”. The meetings took place in Ljubljana and Zagreb and therefore raised discussions...

    Successful ETUCE round table meetings on the potentials of social dialogue in Slovenia and Croatia
  6. Fighting the commercialisation of education 16 June 2014

    ETUCE Guidelines to the EC’s public consultation on modalities for investment protection and ISDS in TTIP

    The European Commission runs a public consultation on investment protection and investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) in TTIP until 6 July 2014. ETUCE strongly encourage all member organisations to respond to the consultation. Therefore, ETUCE has drafted a set of guidelines to the European Commission’s public consultation on modalities for investment...

    ETUCE Guidelines to the EC’s public consultation on modalities for investment protection and ISDS in TTIP
  7. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 16 June 2014

    Quality Education in Europe – still a long way to go. Soon an ETUCE film documentary to state it

    On 22 September 2014 ETUCE’s final conference of the project “Development of teacher unions’ expertise on exiting the crisis through quality education” is taking place in conjunction with the European culmination event of the EI global initiative Unite for Quality Education.

    Quality Education in Europe – still a long way to go. Soon an ETUCE film documentary to state it
  8. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 16 June 2014

    ETUCE Culmination event of the Unite for Quality Education Campaign: join the European event in Brussels on 22 September 2014!

    On 22 September 2014, the EI initiative Unite for Quality Education Campaign will reach its peak in the European Region. On this special day, ETUCE is organising a Public Hearing on the Future of Quality Education, hosted by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in Brussels, to celebrate one...

    ETUCE Culmination event of the Unite for Quality Education Campaign: join the European event in Brussels on 22 September 2014!
  9. Standards and working conditions 13 June 2014

    USA: Teacher tenure under judicial attack

    America’s biggest teachers’ unions are voicing their opposition to a California Superior Court’s decision to strip teachers of tenure, a ruling that found the laws intended to protect educators are in fact unconstitutional.

    USA: Teacher tenure under judicial attack
  10. 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.

    Australia: Privatisation drive endangers quality education for all
  11. 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.

    DRC: Nearly one third of Congolese teachers work without pay
  12. 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.

    World Day against Child Labour: new EI resource manual for teachers
  13. 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

    Declining aid to education is putting development at risk
  14. Union growth 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.

    Djibouti: Government repression of teachers continues to worsen
  15. 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.

    UK: Education unions disappointed by Queen’s speech
  16. 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.

    Education makes the post-2015 UN development goal shortlist
  17. 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.

    Education makes the post-2015 development goal shortlist
  18. 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.

    Quality Educators for All Project to receive top award