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Union renewal and development 2006-05-04 Annual Report 2005 now available on CD-rom!
The CD-rom includes information on all activities carried out by EI in 2005 to reach the objectives adopted at the EI World Congress:
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2006-04-28 Global Action Week 2006: Meeting with Brazilian President Lula
In Brazil, education personnel and activists join hands in a large-scale mobilisation for the goal of Education For All as part of Global Action Week - an international mobilisation taking place this week.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2006-04-26 Press Release 7/2006: 18.1 Million extra primary school teachers needed by 2015 in order to achieve Education for All, UNESCO study finds
Education International (EI) welcomes the UIS (UNESCO Institute for Statistics) report and considers it an important advocacy tool: "It will help us persuade the international community to take the political and strategic decisions required to recruit the qualified teachers that we need to achieve Universal Primary Education by 2015" said...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2006-04-20 Press Release 6/2006: Watch out for Global Action Week somewhere close to you!
Next week, teachers' unions and NGOs worldwide will request governments to ensure that all children get the chance to be taught by qualified teachers.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 2006-04-12 TradEducation issue no.8 now available for download!
The new issue of EI's bulletin on GATS and the WTO, TradEducation, has just been published. In this issue, we talk about the New Zealand government spearheading an effort to open up their private higher education "market", EI's meeting with key WTO negotiators and rules on domestic regulations.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2006-04-11 Press Release 5/2006: EI President Thulas Nxesi: Governments must commit to spend more on Education
With Global Action Week on Education almost upon us, world leaders are under pressure to make a move on education sector commitments. As part of the Global Action Week campaign, EI President Thulas Nxesi yesterday called on governments worldwide to translate words into actions and to spend more on education.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 2006-04-03 GATS: EI Lobby at the WTO
EI held a series of meetings with the officials and negotiators of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) as services negotiations resumed in Geneva this week. Monique Fouilhoux, EI’s education and employment co-ordinator, was joined by representatives of affiliates from Australia, Canada, and Denmark.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2006-03-31 EI takes part in preparing the contribution of the international trade union movement to the G8 Summit tp be held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in July 2006
On the occasion of the consultations held with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank in Washington DC, USA, from 27 to 31 March 2006, EI Deputy General Secretary Elie Jouen also took part in the meeting of the TUAC group on economic issues, which was responsible for...
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Union renewal and development 2006-03-31 Worlds of Education No 18 (March-April 2006) now available
The March/April 2006 issue of Worlds of Education, Education International’s bi-monthly magazine, is now available.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2006-03-30 Open letter to all affiliates: Every Child Needs a Teacher
Within the framework of Global Action Week's activities to be held from 24th to 30th April, EI issued an open letter on 30 March, signed by the President and General Secretary of EI, recalling the issues behind this year's message "Every Child Needs a Teacher".
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Union renewal and development 2006-03-29 Second EI Research Network meeting
The EI Research Network is holding its second meeting in Brussels from 29-30 March. The network comprises research officers from EI affiliates.
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Trade union rights are human rights 2006-03-24 Call for G8 HIV/AIDS permanent working group
Global Unions have recently launched a G8 HIV/AIDS Campaign as part of the 28 April “International Commemoration Day (ICD) for Dead and Injured Workers”. This campaign aims at convincing the Heads of State at next July’s G8 Summit in Russia to create a permanent high-level G8 working group on HIV/AIDS.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 2006-03-22 GATS: Education is a right, not a commodity
In the global economy where neo-liberal values of privatisation and market competition are dominant, it is crucial for those committed to public education to reaffirm the principle that education, including higher, technical, and professional education, is a right and not a merchandise.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2006-03-21 EI Pan-European Standing Commitee for Higher Education and Research met in Sesimbra
The EI Pan-European Standing Commitee for Higher Education and Research conducted a meeting recently in Sesimbra, Portugal, from 16-18 March, with a seminar on the "New Developments in Higher Education and Research: Consequences for the academic personnel" within the framework of the ETUCE-TRACE Project.
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Standards and working conditions 2006-03-13 CEART 2006: invitation for contributions
As the ILO-UNESCO Committee of Experts on the Recommendations on Teachers (CEART) will meet in Geneva this October and EI will be presenting a report to the committee, EI invites all member organisations to contribute to the drafting of this report.
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Leading the profession 2006-03-09 PISA 2006 and the 2007 OECD Survey of Teachers, Teaching and Learning
EI has sent out a circular to affiliates in the member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) urging them to take actions about their national government's plans to participate in OECD's two surveys, PISA 2006 and the 2007 OECD Survey of Teachers and Learning.
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Leading the profession 2006-03-09 PISA 2006, OECD Survey on Teachers and Learning 2007
These two OECD studies are important for education unions and their members. Education International is working closely with the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC)* to monitor the two projects and to ensure that the views of educators and their unions are taken into account.
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Union renewal and development 2006-03-08 Rebuilding Aceh and Sri Lanka through Education for All
Education International is pleased to report that good progress is being made with the development and rebuilding of schools in Aceh and Sri Lanka, the areas which were destroyed by the tsunami of December 2004.
Rebuilding Aceh and Sri Lanka through Education for All