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News 3 December 2008 Macedonia: Teachers achieve new collective agreement, strike is over
Leaders of the Trade Union of Employees in Education, Science and Culture (SONK) and representatives of the Macedonian education authorities reached an accord 3 December, bringing to an end the strike which had closed elementary and secondary schools since 24 November.
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News 2 December 2008 Macedonia: Teachers hopeful for resumption of negotiations
Teachers are more optimistic after an announcement by Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski condemning the pressure exerted on teacher union members, and urging education officials and union leaders to get back to the negotiating table and come to a mutually agreeable solution to the current strike.
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News 25 November 2008 Macedonian teachers strike to back collective bargaining rights
Members of the Autonomous Trade Union of Education, Science and Culture of the Republic of Macedonia (SONK) went on strike 24 November after the government reneged on its earlier commitments in collective agreements for both elementary and secondary education.
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News 17 October 2008 EI supports its Italian member organisations' call against dismantling of education
Education International its EU organisation, the European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE), strongly support the call by their Italian member organisations - the Federazione Lavoratori della Connoscenza (FLC-CGIL), the CISL-Scuola and the UIL-Scuola for action against the plans by the government to dramatically downsize the education sector.
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News 10 October 2008 EI urges Somalia to make schools safe sanctuaries
With the country in turmoil, the public education system in a state of collapse, and teachers under attack, Education International is deeply concerned that Somali teachers and students are suffering profound violations of their rights on a daily basis.
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News 6 October 2008 Teachers matter more than ever!
Education, schools and children will ultimately pay the highest price as the global financial crisis hits communities everywhere, EI Vice-President Patrick Gonthier warned participants in a Round Table held at UNESCO headquarters in Paris on 3 October to commemorate World Teachers’ Day 2008.
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News 6 October 2008 Central and Eastern Europe: Teachers united for quality education
Teachers from across Central and Eastern Europe are reaching out to colleagues facing difficult circumstances in Georgia, Montenegro and Turkey. Representatives of 26 organisations from 17 countries met in Zagreb, Croatia, from 2-4 October.
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News 3 October 2008 World Teachers’ Day 2008: Teachers matter!
Governments the world over must address the dramatic shortage of qualified teachers if they are to meet the social and economic challenges of the knowledge society, according to Education International, the global union federation representing 30 million teachers around the world.
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News 26 September 2008 Dramatic increase in attacks on teachers
The world has seen a dramatic and disturbing increase in attacks against teachers over the past three years, according to the author of a global study commissioned by UNESCO. Journalist and researcher Brendan O’Malley presented his findings to members of the Executive Board of Education International, meeting this week in...
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Research A comparative study of teachers’ pay in Europe
Béla Galgóczi and Vera Glassner
17 September 2008A comparative study of teachers’ pay in EuropeThis report presents the findings of a study on teachers’ pay in Europe, commissioned by EI/ ETUCE/, and conducted by the European Trade Union Institute’s research department in the summer of 2008.
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News 12 September 2008 Suriname: teachers achieve substantial wage increases
Following difficult months of conflicts and long strikes, the teacher unions in Suriname have won substantial wage increases from the government, as well as a collective agreement which addresses discrepancies between teachers' working conditions.
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News 10 September 2008 Indonesia: Teachers' pay increased by 15%
Teachers in Indonesia are celebrating the success of their long legal and political struggle to compel their government to live up to the Constitutional requirement to dedicate 20 percent of the national budget to education. The PGRI, EI’s affiliate, took the case for increasing education funding to the Constitutional Court...
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News 10 September 2008 Moldova: review of salary urgently needed
In support of its member organisation the Education and Science Trade Union (ESTU), EI has requested the education minister of Moldova, Larisa Savga, to open a dialogue with the teacher union to review teachers' salary.
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News 5 September 2008 Teachers Matter! Celebrate World Teachers' Day with millions of educators worldwide on 5 October
Every day, in millions of classrooms around the world, the universal endeavour of teaching and learning takes place. The gift of literacy is passed from one generation to the next, along with love of learning and thirst for knowledge. When knowledge is shared, skills are gained and lives can be...
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4 September 2008 Teacher training project launched
Education International and Oxfam Novib from the Netherlands have embarked on a joint pilot project on teacher training in developing countries. The Education for All targets and the education-related Millennium Development Goals, to which EI is committed, cannot be achieved without adequate numbers of properly trained and qualified teachers.
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4 September 2008 World Teachers’ Day 2008: Teachers matter!
Every day, in millions of classrooms around the world, the universal endeavour of teaching and learning takes place. The gift of literacy is passed from one generation to the next, along with love of learning and thirst for knowledge. When knowledge is shared, skills are gained and lives can be...
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4 September 2008 France: 13,500 more teaching jobs cut
The French Minister of Education, Xavier Darcos, announced in July an additional 13,500 job cuts in 2009. These cuts come on top of 11,200 jobs already cut in the 2008 school year.
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News 20 August 2008 COPE-UNESCO-UNICEF conference on "Improving Status of Teachers" a success
Together with UNESCO and UNICEF, EI's sub-regional organisation, the Council of Pacific Educators (COPE) organised a conference on "Improving the Status of Teachers as per ILO-UNESCO's 1966 Recommendation and promoting Children's Rights to Quality Education" from 18-20 August 2008 in Nadi, Fiji.
COPE-UNESCO-UNICEF conference on "Improving Status of Teachers" a success