World Education Support Personnel Day: Pandemic, Privatisation and Public Education
“On Edtech, the public good, and democracy”, by David Edwards.
Education International’s Manifesto: Education, a tool to fight the threat of the climate crisis
EI and OECD launch Principles for Effective and Equitable Educational Recovery
Education International Condemns the Coup and Repression in Myanmar
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News 2021-06-01 Germany: Successful petition demands more time to support students
Over 15,000 people signed a petition organised by Education International’s German affiliates, the Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft (GEW) and the Verband Bildung und Erziehung (VBE), along with the Primary School Association (GSV, German acronym).
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News 2021-06-01 Education International’s Climate Network showcases powerful union responses to climate change
Collective power and support in achieving universal climate change education were at the heart of the second meeting of Education International’s Climate Network.
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News 2021-06-01 International Labour Organization: COVID-19 recovery requires investment in education and in training and decent work for educators
Delegates at the International Labour Organization (ILO) technical meeting on the future of work in the education sector have agreed that education workers need more support if they are to provide the additional learning needed to build a more resilient and sustainable recovery from the pandemic.
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Statements 2021-05-31 Education International strongly condemns Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention
Education International Executive Board Statement
The 2011 Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combatting Violence against Women and Domestic Violence is a landmark instrument that recognises the structural nature of gender-based violence and provides a clear roadmap for States to prevent, prosecute and eliminate gender-based violence and domestic violence.
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Opinion 2021-05-31 “Privatised education: the virus exposed by the pandemic.”
By Shelley Morse.
As Covid-19 continues to reap havoc and draw the public’s attention, governments across Canada are sharing a privatisation playbook as they use the pandemic as cover to transform publicly funded public education.
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2021-05-30 Governments must put public education at the center of the post-covid recovery
For millions of students around the world, school closures will not represent a temporary interruption to their education but rather the abrupt end of it. This situation and other worrying information was revealed in a report published by the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW), on the impact of the covid-19...
Governments must put public education at the center of the post-covid recovery