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Fighting the commercialisation of education 21 August 2013 TISA, a threat to free quality public education
EI has sent out a briefing note on the Trade in International Services Agreement (TISA) to its affiliates, informing them about these trade negotiations that threaten to liberalise public services like healthcare and education.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 20 August 2013 Malaysia: Government demand for data hinders quality teaching
The National Union of the Teaching Profession (NUTP), one of EI’s national affiliates, has explained that the extra work of collecting and providing data to the Education Ministry and the new teaching system hinder quality teaching.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 20 August 2013 Nigeria: mass protest to save public education
On 13 August, the Joint Action Front (JAF) led a national mass protest to save public education in Nigeria. EI’s national affiliate, the National Union of Teachers (NUT), is a JAF member.
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Equity and inclusion 19 August 2013 USA: Education unionists mobilise for immigration reform
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), one of EI’s national affiliates, has called on the US House of Representatives to adopt legislation initiating a comprehensive immigration reform.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 19 August 2013 New Zealand: Parents and teachers back up Labour's rejection of charter schools
The New Zealand Educational Institute-Te Riu Roa (NZEI Te Riu Roa), one of EI’s national affiliates, has said it would support the election of a Labour-led Government, as the latter would repeal the current legislation favouring privately led schools (charter schools) and focus on improving the status and situation of...
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Trade union rights are human rights 19 August 2013 Fiji: Exposing the clampdown on union rights
An EI delegation is attending regional meetings on labour standards in Fiji. EI representatives are holding talks with teachers' representatives from the Fijian Teachers' Association and the Fiji Teacher Union who deplored the clampdown on union rights since the 2006 coup.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 13 August 2013 Greece: Sign union petition to save public education
The Greek Federation of Secondary State School Teachers (OLME), one of EI’s national affiliates, has organised an online petition to protest against the planned suspension and dismissal of Greek teachers.
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Union growth 12 August 2013 UK: Education Secretary must listen to teachers, not attack them
Two of EI’s affiliates, the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) and the National Union of Teachers (NUT), have criticised a survey released by the UK polling organisation, Populus.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 August 2013 Ghana: Education union invests in teacher professional training
The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) will continue to invest in upgrading the skills and knowledge of its members while urging the government to organise quality in-service training for all teachers in the country. GNAT has derived many benefits from its cooperation on teachers’ professional development training with the...
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Equity and inclusion 8 August 2013 Mobilising for a quality education that meets Indigenous Peoples needs
On 9 August, International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, EI reaffirms the right of indigenous children to education and the right of indigenous peoples to self-determination, also to define education systems and quality education integrating their own perspectives on culture, beliefs, values and languages.
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Trade union rights are human rights 6 August 2013 Kenya: Government withholds salaries after teachers’ strike ends
The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT), one of EI’s affiliates in the country, has informed EI that the teachers’ national strike which started on 25 June was called off on 17 July. The education union urged teachers to report back to their schools the next day. Unfortunately, however, the...
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Equity and inclusion 6 August 2013 Organising and supporting LGBT teachers
A teachers’ union seminar in Stockholm has focused on the need for teacher unionists to include, represent, and defend lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) teachers and students.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 6 August 2013 Call for comments on Education and Learning
EI encourages member organisations and education stakeholders worldwide to review and provide feedback to the Draft Business Engagement Framework for Education and Learning released by the UN Global Compact, UNICEF, UNESCO and the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Global Education. The Framework is intended to be a practical...
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Trade union rights are human rights 5 August 2013 Iranian teacher Abdolreza Ghanbari saved from execution
EI is relieved to learn that the death sentence imposed on Iranian teacher Abdolreza Ghanbari has been reduced to 15 years’ detention and exile by the Tehran Revolutionary Court.
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Trade union rights are human rights 2 August 2013 Tunis: Condemnation of murder of MP and comrade Mohamed Brahmi
Education International strongly condemns the killing of Mohamed Brahmi, a secular Tunisian political leader. An outspoken critic of the Government who represented the Front Populaire in the Tunisian Parliament, Mohamed Brahmi was shot down in front of his home in Tunis on 25 July.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 1 August 2013 Education For All: a teachers’ perspective
Delhi, India, was the location for a meeting to facilitate EI member organisations to evaluate the implementation of the Education For All (EFA) process in their home countries. The aim was to publicise teachers’ perspectives on EFA, after 25 years of global efforts to achieve education ‘for every citizen in...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 1 August 2013 First regional higher education conference in Latin America
For the first time, EI higher education affiliates in the Latin American region have met in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia on 25-26 July 2013.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 1 August 2013 EU High Level Group on modernisation of Higher education: teaching matters
The EU high-level group on modernisation of higher education published its first report on improving the quality of teaching and learning in universities.
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