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  1. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 4 July 2005

    New Zealand: The Case for Early Childhood Teachers

    A thousand teachers working in more than 170 early childhood education centres throughout New Zealand took a step towards obtaining pay parity with primary and secondary teachers on 1 July. They belong to EI affiliate, NZEI Te Riu Roa, which last year negotiated a collective employment agreement delivering a four...

    New Zealand: The Case for Early Childhood Teachers
  2. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 1 July 2005

    What will come out of the G8?

    Past summits made empty promises. Will this one be different?

    What will come out of the G8?
  3. Union renewal and development 1 July 2005

    New Global Trade Union Centre to be formed

    The ICFTU [1] Executive Board, meeting in Brussels 21-22 June, took the historic decision to hold a special Congress in 2006 to form a new Global Trade Union Centre. The meeting was chaired by the new ICFTU President, Sharan Burrow, a former Vice-President of EI.

    New Global Trade Union Centre to be formed
  4. Union renewal and development 20 June 2005

    And still they grieve...

    Beside the road from the principal airport of North Ossetia to the capital city of Vladikavkaz is a new cemetery. It has been opened in the past year to accommodate the remains of over 300 victims of the siege in School No.1 in Beslan. It is a remarkable sight. Its...

    And still they grieve...
  5. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 31 May 2005

    Higher education: a priority for EI

    The Bologna process aims to establish an open area for higher education – comprising 45 countries – by the year 2010 in order to enable greater student mobility and the mutual recognition of qualifications and diplomas. This will obviously have significant implications for teachers and researchers.

    Higher education: a priority for EI
  6. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 24 May 2005

    Major victories for EFA in the Andes

    The Education For All programme has received a major boost in the Andes region with education unions winning breakthrough commitments from their governments to enter into formal consultation processes on how the programme will operate.

    Major victories for EFA in the Andes
  7. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 18 May 2005

    Teachers will be part of the Bologna process

    EI and its affiliates from the higher education sector are partners in the current ministerial conference in Bergen (Norway, 19-20 May) aimed at developing a European Higher Education Area. This participation is an official recognition that academics are the "third pillar" of the Bologna process.

    Teachers will be part of the Bologna process
  8. Equity and inclusion 18 May 2005

    Indigenous People - A question of life or death

    Living in widely differing environments with distinct cultures and languages, Indigenous Peoples, with only a handful of exceptions, are struggling for survival. Their languages, traditions, wisdom and knowledge have disappeared or have been eradicated. Of those that remain, many are, even now, on the very verge of extinction. For EI,...

    Indigenous People - A question of life or death
  9. Equity and inclusion 18 May 2005

    EI supports GIVE, the Global Indigenous Voice on Education

    “The Answers Are Within Us” expressed the theme of the 6th World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education (WIPCE) in August 2002. WIPCE celebrated the achievements of Indigenous peoples in transmitting their heritage from generation to generation and welcomed the sharing of successes in the use and enhancement of Indigenous languages...

    EI supports GIVE, the Global Indigenous Voice on Education
  10. Equity and inclusion 18 May 2005

    Indigenous Peoples - Healing through education

    According to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's final report, published in Peru in August 2003, the political violence between 1980 and 2000 affected urban and rural areas differently. Rural areas and poorer departments had the most number of victims. Four out of ten casualties lived in Ayacucho, and of these...

    Indigenous Peoples - Healing through education
  11. Fighting the commercialisation of education 7 April 2005

    Brain Drain

    Rich country seeks poor teachers

    Brain Drain
  12. Union growth 24 March 2005

    Kenya: Time Now for Universal Secondary Schooling?

    A recent statement by the Kenyan government that many students who graduated from primary school last year will not find places in the country's secondary schools has generated widespread concern.

    Kenya: Time Now for Universal Secondary Schooling?