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   Equity and inclusion 30 June 2025

   Not the exception, but essential: Teachers with disabilities in mainstream classrooms

   Nidhi Singal

   Where are the teachers with disabilities in our classrooms? A question I often ask my audience is: “How many of you were taught by a teacher who identified as having a disability during your school years?” In a room of 50–60 people, usually only one or two hands go up.

   Not the exception, but essential: Teachers with disabilities in mainstream classrooms

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   Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 27 March 2025

   Tackling the teacher shortage crisis in the Commonwealth

   Oliver Mawhinney

   44 million teachers are need globally by 2030 – a shortage that affects developing and developed countries alike, as demonstrated across the Commonwealth.

   Tackling the teacher shortage crisis in the Commonwealth

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   Equity and inclusion 21 March 2025

   Hair discrimination and cultural bias in South Africa’s education sector

   Nomarashiya Dolly Caluza

   As a young, South African girlchild, I experienced elements of hair discrimination at school and in my community. I attended African schools taught by African teachers. Our teachers discouraged us from wearing our hair long, claiming that our hair did not look “clean”, forcing us to either keep it short...

   Hair discrimination and cultural bias in South Africa’s education sector

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   Equity and inclusion 7 February 2025

   South Africa: Education unions call for copyright reform to protect learning

   Education International (EI) and its member organisations are calling for urgent copyright reforms to remove barriers to quality education for all and ensure that teachers and students have access to the learning materials they need.

   South Africa: Education unions call for copyright reform to protect learning

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   Education International's 10th World Congress 2 August 2024

   Mugwena Maluleke to represent the world’s educators as Education International’s new President

   Dr. Mugwena Maluleke, a teacher, unionist, and social justice activist, has been elected as the new President of Education International. Dr. Maluleke was elected by delegates from around the world during the 10thEI World Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and assumes this role following an influential tenure as General Secretary...

   Mugwena Maluleke to represent the world’s educators as Education International’s new President

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   Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 27 June 2024

   Upholding professional teaching standards matters

   Ella Mokgalane

   Countries without professional standards deprive their education and teaching workforce of quality and professional excellence. As part of its theory of change, the South African Council for Educators (SACE) adopted the concept of Professional Teaching Standards to provide a common language and vision of the profession that all teachers can...

   Upholding professional teaching standards matters