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Press accreditation
The sixth World Congress of Education International, which represents 30 million teachers worldwide, will be held at Cape Town's International Convention Centre (CTICC) from Friday 22 to Tuesday 26 July, 2011.
A pre-Congress press conference will take place with senior EI officials and special guests from 12.30-14.00 on Thursday 21 July in the CTICC.
There are a number of hotels in close proximity to the CTICC Complex. Please visit this link to see a list of hotels that you can contact directly to make a booking. EI will not be subsidising accommodation costs for journalists and media representatives.
Press credentials, the full conference programme and documents will be sent to you in advance. To ensure you are sent documentation please complete and return the form that can be downloaded below:
Education International's Affiliates
To search for contact information of EI's member organisations across the world, please click HERE.
Bring a Book (to Congress) for ‘Equal Education’
Almost 70 per cent of schools in South Africa do not have access to a properly equipped library where children can learn and teachers teach so EI is encouraging all participants who are coming to Congress to ‘bring a book’ from their country and help to build a library.
EI will be working with Equal Education which is a movement of young people, parents, teachers and unions working for quality and equality in education across South Africa. Equal Education is supported by South African teachers’ unions, NAPTOSA and SADTU.
Some of Equal Education’s major accomplishments include: putting the question of school libraries and access to books on the national agenda; bringing down late-coming in schools where it is a chronic problem; and, through its campaigning, winning major allocation of resources to address school infrastructure.
Equal Education’s ‘Bookery project’ will receive the books that are brought by EI World Congress participants to help establish school libraries in South Africa.
Participants may visit Equal Education at their stand in the EI Congress exhibition area, where they can deposit their books and learn more about the campaigns it runs. More information is also available on its website: www.equaleducation.org.za
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Media Advisory 1: Press conference with international education union leaders, Cape Town
Media Advisory 2: Education unions tackle discrimination and social inequalities faced by women, LGBT people and Indigenous peoples
Media Advisory 3: Education leaders to tackle the impact of financial crisis
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