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The COVID-19 pandemic continues to grow at an alarming rate and has also become an education crisis. Governments around the world need to develop swift, coherent and proportionate responses. Click to read the full document.
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As governments worldwide step up to combat the COVID-19 outbreak, educators and their unions are doing their part to support each other, their students and their communities. See below what Education International and our affiliates are doing to help.
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Get up to date with the latest news, read the guidelines or see what other unions are doing to minimise the effects of the COVID-19 crisis and get inspired.
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Education union leaders the world over are coming together in myriad ways to find collective solutions to address the needs of their students, colleagues and communities in this pandemic. EI General Secretary David Edwards explains how Education International, its member organisations and the world's’ educators are committed to getting through this crisis together.
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Teachers and educators in Ghana are urging President Akufo-Addo to extend the four-week shutdown of basic and second-cycle schools to final-year students. This is intended to minimise the spread of COVID-19.
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Volume II of The Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) 2018 was released by the OECD today, 23 March 2020. Having contributed to the development of the survey, EI welcomes the findings and views them as a solid basis for discussions between education trade unions and policy makers.
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Education unions in Francophone Africa are dismayed at the lack of consultation in government decisions to close all education establishments to fight the spread of the COVOD-19 pandemic. The unions representing teachers and education support personnel report that they had not been consulted on the best ways to ensure quality ed...
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Education International welcomes the release of jailed Iranian teacher unionist Esmail Abdi on 17 March.
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The Philippines is currently under a State of National Health Emergency and a State of Calamity. Classes from kindergarten to college are cancelled until 14 April 2020 but the government is not conducting extensive testing nor providing enough support for the population. The Alliance of Concerned Teachers is mobilising to inform...
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