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Quality Teaching

  1. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 11 December 2012

    France: Improving working conditions for trainee teachers

    The Syndicat National des Enseignements de Second Degré (SNES-FSU), organised a week of action for trainees which took place between 26th and 30th November. Trainees are men and women who have passed the national competitive recruitment examination and must complete a year as a trainee teacher before they are given...

    France: Improving working conditions for trainee teachers
  2. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 29 November 2012

    Nepal: education unions’ workshop increases trade unions capacities

    Social justice and gender equity were just two issues addressed at the EI workshop, “Reviving union cooperation to strength teachers’ voice”, for its Nepalese member organisations from 10-12 October.

    Nepal: education unions’ workshop increases trade unions capacities
  3. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 13 November 2012

    Teachers training and quality education in Africa

    This article will discuss the characteristics of a profession in the context of the teaching service and challenges which teachers may face in their endeavour to develop and maintain reputable organisations and professional members. It will also explore the strategies which teachers and education stakeholders may use in advocating for...

    Teachers training and quality education in Africa
  4. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 13 November 2012

    Kenya: educators’ union tackling the teacher deprofessionalisation issue

    The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) is a teachers’ trade union founded in December 1957 during a conference held in a local school in Nairobi. Its constitution was ratified in 1958 and registered in 1959. It has a membership ranging between 180,000 to 240,000 teachers drawn mainly from primary,...

    Kenya: educators’ union tackling the teacher deprofessionalisation issue
  5. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 13 November 2012

    Niger: Evaluating pupils and teachers to achieve quality education

    Education is the bedrock of social development, a subject that has always been of concern to society. This concern is shared at both the family and community level and on a much wider scale, as can be seen from the holding of major conferences such as those in Jomtien and...

    Niger: Evaluating pupils and teachers to achieve quality education
  6. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 9 November 2012

    Quality-Ed project

    Dennis Sinyolo

    Quality-Ed project
  7. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 6 November 2012

    Nigeria: teacher gap must be addressed

    The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has demanded that the federal Government in Nigeria pay teachers’ salaries in order to maintain their employment in financially-strapped States in Nigeria. The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), issued this demand in response to the statement by Professor Mohammed Ibn Junaid, the Executive Secretary...

    Nigeria: teacher gap must be addressed
  8. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 July 2012

    Canada: Gap between teachers’ hopes and practice

    External forces often change the way teachers teach, with just under half of teachers occasionally having opportunities to teach as they aspire to. That’s according to a 2012 joint research report from the Canadian Education Association (CEA) and the Canadian Teachers’ Federation (CTF).

    Canada: Gap between teachers’ hopes and practice
  9. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 6 July 2012

    Mali: Scaling up of Quality Educators programme

    A Quality Educators for All (Quality-Ed) Inception workshop was held in The Hague, Netherlands, from 25-27 July. EI and its Malian affiliate, the Syndicat National de l’Education et de la culture UNTM (SNEC-UNTM), joined other project partners at the meeting. Through the Quality-Ed Project, 2,555 community teachers, providing education to...

    Mali: Scaling up of Quality Educators programme
  10. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 27 June 2012

    Education union leader debunks anti-teacher activist’s assertions

    EI welcomes a recent BBC show featuring the Association of Teachers and Lecturers’ (ATL) General Secretary Mary Bousted and Michelle Rhee, a former chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools. It allowed one of the UK’s top education trade unionists to reassert what quality teachers and teacher assessment mean.

    Education union leader debunks anti-teacher activist’s assertions
  11. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 May 2012

    Africa acknowledges crucial role of qualified teachers

    Teachers’ professional development represents one of the three main pillars of the Second Decade of Education for Africa. The other two pillars are formal and non-formal vocational education and training, and higher education. These pillars were reaffirmed by the Conference for Ministers of Education of Africa (COMEDAF V) in Abuja,...

    Africa acknowledges crucial role of qualified teachers
  12. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 May 2012

    Africa acknowledges crucial role of qualified teachers

    Teachers’ professional development represents one of the three main pillars of the Second Decade of Education for Africa. The other two pillars are formal and non-formal vocational education and training, and higher education. These pillars were reaffirmed by the Conference for Ministers of Education of Africa (COMEDAF V) in Abuja,...

    Africa acknowledges crucial role of qualified teachers