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News 20 November 2025 Chad: the union at the heart of negotiations to improve the status of teachers
After years of negotiations, the SET teachers’ union of Chad has secured a revision of the decree governing the status of teachers. This is a first step that rekindles hope for improved working conditions and opens up a new phase of negotiations. But many challenges lie ahead.
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Trade union rights are human rights 24 September 2024 Chad: A union congress vital for the future of education
During the 6th ordinary Congress of the Chad Teachers’ Union (Syndicat des enseignants du Tchad – SET), unionists reinvigorated their union, discussed strategies to ensure the teaching profession is valued, reviewed the union’s statutory provisions, nominated national advisers, and elected a new national executive committee.
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Union renewal and development 27 October 2021 Solidarity in times of crisis: the EI COVID Response Fund
As the COVID-19 pandemic became global, education unions showed solidarity with a dedicated COVID Response Fund to support member organisations during school closures and where teachers were hit by the health crisis.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 15 July 2021 Chad: the SET supporting teachers during the COVID-19 crisis
Throughout the crisis, the Chad Teachers Union (SET, Syndicat des Enseignants du Tchad) has focused on listening to and supporting teachers. To this aim, the union carried out a large-scale survey to better understand the impact of the pandemic on teachers and to assess the effectiveness of distance learning.
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Leading the profession 21 October 2020 “Africa: Collaboration between Unions and Governments for a Better Future in Education”, by Cherine Sabry.
Cherine Sabry
Unions and governments have been in conflict since the dawn of time. The mere existence of unions as a force to defend workers’ rights where governments fail to do so in and of itself leads to this conflictual relationship. In Africa, unions have rarely been consulted during the COVID-19 crisis...
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Trade union rights are human rights 21 October 2020 Education International’s affiliates show tremendous solidarity amongst educators through the COVID-19 Response Fund
From the very beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, Education International called on global education union solidarity to help member organisations respond to the sanitary crisis and emerge stronger from it in terms of mobilising, organising and capacity-building.
Education International’s affiliates show tremendous solidarity amongst educators through the COVID-19 Response Fund
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Syndicat des Enseignants du Tchad
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