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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 October 2018 World Bank World Development Report 2019: Once again, the “cure” is worse than the disease
The World Bank has just issued its World Development Report for 2019. Although slightly improved in some places from earlier drafts, it is still the same approach.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 11 October 2018 EI General Secretary critiques the World Bank’s Human Capital Index
On the eve of the launch of the World Bank’s Human Capital Index (HCI), David Edwards, General Secretary of Education International, critiques the new global metric.
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Union renewal and development 5 October 2018 On World Teachers’ Day, new report highlights urgent need to improve education
A lack of qualified teachers and poor working conditions for teaches worldwide are highlighted in a report released by Education International to mark World Teachers’ Day (5 October).
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Union renewal and development 3 October 2018 #EI25: “25 Years Defending the Right to Education”, by Dr. Patrick Roach
Patrick Roach
We should thank teachers for being educators but also for fighting to defend the rights of teachers and their students.
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Union renewal and development 25 September 2018 #EI25: “Education International and member unions: weaving fabric of justice”, by Masaki Okajima
Masaki Okajima
You might think that there is a great distance between the international trade union movement and your own union or country. But my experience as a member of the EI Executive Board has shown close links.
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Union renewal and development 24 September 2018 Upcoming events
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Trade union rights are human rights 19 September 2018 EI on the World Development Report: “One must have a vision to have hope”
Education International urges the World Bank to radically change its approach, which is damaging to workers, democracy and the future of our societies.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 6 September 2018 #EI25: "And if those who are absent were …. right, at times?", by Daniel B. Lafrenière
Daniel B. Lafrenière
There is an old French adage that says “les absents ont toujours tort,” which means that those who are absent are always in the wrong (or always get the blame). But what if they were right after all under certain circumstances? This seems to be the case in the field...
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Trade union rights are human rights 23 August 2018 #EI25: “When Ordinary People Demand Justice”, by Lily Eskelsen García
Lily Eskelsen García
Sometimes what touches us at an international meeting isn’t what’s on the agenda. It’s what was outside on the street. Sometimes it’s the crushing courage of tiny, fragile grandmothers who would not be stopped and who serve as an example to all social justice activists of what we are called...
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Union renewal and development 9 August 2018 #EI25: "Remaining a trade unionist and staying strong", by Marième Sakho Dansokho (SYPROS, Senegal)
Marième Sakho Dansokho
Education International (EI) is celebrating 25 years of existence; 25 years of advocacy for education and the teaching profession. A long journey peppered with successes, wins and persistent challenges. EI and its affiliated organisations have to contend with capital and capitalists more concerned with their own profits than with the...
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Union growth 20 June 2018 ILO Director General denounces “New Brutalism”
“We have entered an age of new brutalism,” ILO Director General Guy Ryder told delegates of the 5th World Congress of UNI in Liverpool on 19 June. “We have entered an age where it is OK to dehumanize those who are rejected, who are marginalized, who are different or who...
ILO Director General denounces “New Brutalism”