Articles from Australia
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 14 October 2020 Australia: Educators act against poverty and on mental health issues
The Australian Education Union (AEU) has invited its members to participate in the national Anti-Poverty Week and to support the wellbeing and mental health of students and colleagues.
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Trade union rights are human rights 21 August 2020 Australia: Education unionists join campaign to end COVID for all
The Australian Education Union (AEU) has joined the call to support vulnerable nations through the #EndCOVIDForAll campaign.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 24 July 2020 Australia: Union report highlights digital divide for public school students
The Australian Education Union has published a report showing a significant digital gap during the COVID-19 pandemic and the lack of digital inclusion for public school students.
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Standards and working conditions 17 January 2020 Global education trade union community mourns Australian Justice Trevor Olsson
Education International salutes the memory of Trevor Olsson, a highly respected jurist from Australia on the Joint International Labour Organisation/UNESCO Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendations concerning Teaching Personnel. Justice Olsson did much to promote the status of teachers over his 21 years of service.
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Trade union rights are human rights 9 January 2020 Australia: trade unions mobilise in the national bushfire crisis
Education International commends the Australian Council of Trade Unions for its prompt reaction to help communities affected by the raging bushfires and its call for donation and/or volunteering.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 29 October 2019 Australia: University attacks a professor who defended students and academic integrity
International solidarity is mobilised after Murdoch University in Australia sues Associate Professor Gerd Schroeder-Turk for whistleblowing.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 September 2019 “Copyright Issues and Teachers' Dilemma in Asia Pacific”, by Dr. Robert Jeyakumar.
Dr. Robert Jeyakumar
I woke up in Budapest on a fine summer morning to deliver a lecture using materials I had prepared in Malaysia in accordance with copyright exceptions allowed in Malaysia. Just before the lecture, I was informed that my materials did not conform to copyright laws in the EU. Dismay! This...
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Equity and inclusion 4 September 2019 Australia: AEU supports ‘Wear it Purple Day 2019’
“Wear it Purple Day” on 30 August was first started in 2010 as a response to tragic events of LGBTQ+ school students who committed suicide as a consequence of bullying and harassment. The movement is designed to show rainbow young people they are accepted and celebrated for who they are...
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Equity and inclusion 27 August 2019 Australia: National Skills Week highlights urgent need for more TAFE funding
In the framework of the Australian National Skills Week, held from 26 August - 1st September, educators urge the Federal Government to put a halt to the cuts in funding for technical and further education and the sector’s privatisation.
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Leading the profession 23 July 2019 “Productive capabilities develop TVET’s contribution to social justice”, by Gavin Moodie.
Gavin Moodie
Education International’s new report on "Technical and Vocational Education and Training as a Framework for Social Justice" charts a new way for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) to advance social justice.
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Standards and working conditions 1 March 2019 Australia: education union and activists will make the 2019 federal election the ‘education election’
At their Federal conference, Australian Education Union’ leaders and activists welcomed the commitment made by the Labour party to greatly increase funding for public education, and reaffirmed their determination to ensure that the upcoming federal election focus on education issues.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 25 February 2019 Australia: Entrenched inequality in public school funding
The Australian Education Union (AEU) has reacted to a report into the provision of childcare, education and training: highlighting that pubic authorities favour private schools over public schools when it comes to funding, and demanding that an end be put to the Morrison government’s inequal treateent of public schools.
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Equity and inclusion 3 October 2018 “My teachers instilled in me the value of expectation”, by Kurt Fearnley
Kurt Fearnley
Nearly four million Australian children are enrolled in our world-class public education system in any given year. Students from well-off families, students from families living day-to-day. Elite athletes, some even juggling early careers as Olympians or as professional athletes, some who have never played organised sport. Budding actors and performers,...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 27 August 2018 Australia: government urged to halt underfunding of public schools!
The Australian Education Union has called on educators and concerned citizens to add their names to an open letter addressed to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull calling for more funding to be allocated to public schools and towards bringing special support for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 5 April 2018 Australia: Educators’ campaign for public schools’ fair funding
The Australian Education Union is demanding that public schools are properly resourced by public authorities with the launch of a new phase of its schools funding campaign – “Fair Funding Now!”
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Standards and working conditions 8 January 2018 Australia: Attack on working conditions linked to teachers’ stress
Australian educators have protested against deteriorating work conditions in the technical and further education sector in Victoria, a direct threat to quality education.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 20 October 2017 Australia: Vocational training crisis heading towards social crisis
The erosion of Australia’s vocational training system, partly because of privatisation, is now impacting on society and on the futures of young people.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 19 October 2017 Australian disability claims boost private school funding at expense of public schools
The Australian Education Union has questioned the government’s decision to considerably increase spending for private schools based on their enrolment numbers of disabled students, deploring that public schools are set to receive much less.
Australian disability claims boost private school funding at expense of public schools