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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2019-10-16 Cali Agreement: A Renewed Commitment to Inclusive Education
The International Forum on Inclusion and Equity in Education held in Cali, Colombia, late last September highlighted the continuing barriers to inclusive and equitable education for all.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2019-10-11 New comprehensive database unveils state of the art in Higher Education
Hosting a record number of reports, the new Database of External Quality Assurance Results (DEQAR) allows scholars, researchers, students, higher education institutions, quality assurance agencies and policy makers to access over 40.000 reports on the quality assurance of higher education institutions.
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Equity and inclusion 2019-10-11 International Day of the Girl: educators celebrate the power of girls to change the world
The global education union movement applauds the momentous activism and leadership of girls around the world. Educators pledge to continue working to empower girls by promoting the inalienable right of every girl to free quality education and by pushing to end school-related gender-based violence. Read David Edwards' statement on the...
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Standards and working conditions 2019-10-07 World Teachers’ Day: EI takes the stage at UNESCO Conference and proposes five measures to make teaching a more attractive profession
During the conference celebrating World Teachers’ Day at UNESCO headquarters, Education International proposed five key measures that should be taken by governments to attract and retain young people into the profession.
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Standards and working conditions 2019-10-03 “Nothing about us without us: educators take the lead on professional teaching standards”, by David Edwards.
One of the most consequential debates and decisions of our 8th World Congress was on professional teaching standards. Congress passed a resolution supporting the implementation of a joint EI/UNESCO framework on the development of professional teaching standards where it is clear that teachers’ unions must be at the centre of...
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Standards and working conditions 2019-10-03 World Teachers’ Day: young teachers and the future of education in the spotlight
With the world in dire need of new teachers, valuing and improving the status of the profession to make it more attractive to young people is key to ensuring equitable and inclusive quality education for all.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 2019-10-01 Kenya: school collapse reveals the deadly toll of privatisation
Eight children died after a classroom collapsed at a private for-profit primary school in the Kenyan capital Nairobi last week.
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Climate action and literacy 2019-09-27 Education unionists speak at United Nations against climate change and for SDG implementation
Education International’s leaders joined advocates from across the globe convening at the United Nations General Assembly this week, amid crises including climate change and threats of armed conflict, as well as a growing concern about progress on the 2030 deadline for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Leading the profession 2019-09-26 Right to authorship, by Yamile Socolovsky
Education International's decision to encourage discussion of an International Treaty concerning the exceptions and limitations to copyright for educational and research activities is both timely and necessary. The obstacles imposed on these activities by the excessively restrictive regulations in this area become remarkably difficult to overcome in the current context,...
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Future of work in education 2019-09-24 “Governments, Fulfil Your Promises: Make Climate Change Education Universal Now!”, by David Edwards.
It was a historic moment when in 2015 UN member states adopted a progressive agenda for a better world, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Central to the SDGs was the important (albeit overdue) recognition that social and economic development cannot be pursued without taking into account their environmental impact. That...
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Union renewal and development 2019-09-20 Fridays For Future: Educators join global protest action for climate justice
At today’s Fridays For Future march, Education International stood in solidarity with students, unions and other civil society groups to demand immediate action against climate change.
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Climate action and literacy 2019-09-18 “Global Week of Climate Action: Count us in!”, by Susan Hopgood.
Strongest hurricane in recorded history, hottest summer, unprecedented mass bleaching of the coral reef… we have grown accustomed to deal in superlatives. Since 1970, the number of natural disasters worldwide has more than quadrupled to around 400 a year. Scientists have warned us about the extreme weather phenomena climate change...
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Standards and working conditions 2019-09-16 New study shows how education policies impact students, teachers and principals
A new study published today by the OECD, the Education Policy Outlook: Working Together to Help Students Achieve their Potential, reports on the progress of over 200 school improvement policies implemented over the last 10 years.
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Union growth 2019-09-15 “Education on the International Day of Democracy”, by David Edwards.
The United Nations established the International Day of Democracy on the 15th of September in 2007 to promote democracy. In 2019, it is clear that democracy and all the things that go with it like human rights and rule of law need to be defended as well as promoted. Education...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2019-09-13 UN Special Rapporteur: education is a crucial tool to combat severe abuses of human rights
Education International welcomes the latest report by Koumbou Boly Barry, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to education, focusing on the ways in which the right to education contributes to the prevention of atrocity crimes and mass or grave violations of human rights.
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Standards and working conditions 2019-09-10 Education at a Glance 2019 shows governments must accelerate progress towards SDG 4 and quality education for all
Reacting to the newly published Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Education at a Glance report, Education International welcomes progress made in a number of countries in several aspects of educational provision, but insists that other major areas of education remain a cause of great concern for educators.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2019-09-07 International Literacy Day: Eradicating illiteracy starts with free quality public education
Education International (EI) General Secretary warns that the world is off track in terms of achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 on quality education, including in literacy. More needs to be done to turn the tide and eradicate illiteracy.
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Union growth 2019-08-29 EI calls on Employment and Labour Ministers in G20 countries to refocus on education
Education International leadership attending the G20 Labour and Employment Ministerial meeting remind ministers that education has to be part of any meaningful long-term strategy to address our common challenges.
EI calls on Employment and Labour Ministers in G20 countries to refocus on education