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Fighting the commercialisation of education 10 December 2013 EI: Education is not a tradable commodity
EI has joined the international trade union movement in criticizing a new agreement on global trade rules that is unbalanced and threatens to put new pressures on public services like health care and education.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 10 December 2013 The first results of the survey of Adult Skills - Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC)
The OECD's PIAAC survey is the first world-wide survey on adults' skills. It tested literacy, numeracy and problem solving ICT skills of adults aged 16-65. PIAAC covers only 17 countries from Europe.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 9 December 2013 Failure of the EU’s Eastern Partnership
The Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius that took place on 28-29 November 2013 ended as a failure.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 9 December 2013 PISA 2012 results
The OECD published the PISA 2012 results on 3 December 2013.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 9 December 2013 Safeguarding public education against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
The EU and the US started negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership in July 2013.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 9 December 2013 ERASMUS+ adopted by the Council
On 3 December 2013, the Council adopted the regulation establishing ERASMUS+, the European Union's Programme for Education, Training, Youth and Sport for the period 2014-2020.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 9 December 2013 The reality of teachers miles away from picture painted by stereotypes
A number of recent reports published by Eurydice demonstrate that the reality of teachers do not match the rosy picture that is painted by stereotypes.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 9 December 2013 Annual Growth Survey strongly criticised by Members of the European Parliament
The Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) criticised strongly the European Commission for its Annual Growth Survey, which repeatedly gives over-optimistic economic forecasts. According the MEPs, the European Commission is not taking sufficient account of these errors and not adapting its economic reform recommendations to tackle the ensuing social problems.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 9 December 2013 ETUCE conference: Preventing Early School Leaving through ICT
On 28-29 November 2013, the final conference of the ETUCE project Teacher Unions Preventing Early School Leaving through the Use of ICT in Education took place in Bratislava, Slovakia.
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Union renewal and development 6 December 2013 South Africa: Nelson Mandela, the world’s teacher, passes away
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, affectionately known as Madiba, anti-apartheid activist and first democratically elected president of South Africa, died last night at the age of 95.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 5 December 2013 PISA: Quality teacher workforce is key
Speaking about what educators can take away from the recently published PISA results, the OECD’s Head of Early Childhood Education and Schools, Michael Davidson, has highlighted that where the teaching profession is held in high esteem, the positive impact on effective learning is inevitable.
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Union growth 5 December 2013 Palestine: EI support for teachers striking over pay dispute
EI has sent a letter to Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian National Authority, urging his government to meet the demands of Palestinian teachers and education workers by fully implementing the 10 per cent salary increase agreed between the government and the General Union of Palestinian Teachers (GUPT) in September.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 4 December 2013 Spain unites for quality public education
Thousands of Spanish people took to the streets of Madrid on Saturday, 30 November, to protest at education cuts. Organised by the Platform for Public Education, the protestors also demanded the suspension of the recently approved reform, the Organic Law for the Improvement of Education Quality (LOMCE), better known as...
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Union renewal and development 4 December 2013 EI Executive Board working for quality education
The 42nd EI Executive Board (ExBo) meeting, held from 3-5 December in Brussels, Belgium, has adopted a series of decisions pertaining to the next EI World Congress, as well as the EI Programme and Budget. It has also confirmed the need to keep exerting high pressure on key decision-makers at...
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Trade union rights are human rights 3 December 2013 Turkey: Police confront demonstrators
EI’s affiliate in Turkey, E?itim Sen, has condemned the police crackdown on teachers and demonstrators gathered in Ankara for a protest march demanding quality education on 23 November, on the eve of the national Teachers’ Day.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 3 December 2013 PISA: A call for quality teachers and quality public education
Education International (EI) welcomes many of the policy insights today's release of the results of the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) provides, especially the emphasis on teacher qualifications and quality being the essence of excellent systems. However, EI also...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2 December 2013 EI African Region: Unite for Quality Education launched in Kinshasa
EI affiliates in the African Region have celebrated the recently launch Unite for Quality Education campaign and held an additional regional launch event in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 29 November 2013 ETUCE responds to Soros article on Roma children's education
The European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE), EI’s European region, has reacted to an article written by George Soros, the Chairman of Soros Fund Management and of the Open Society Foundations. This article demands better education and employment perspectives for Roma people living in the EU area
ETUCE responds to Soros article on Roma children's education