Articles from Belgium
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Union growth 2018-02-12 Belgium: “Hands off our pensions”, say education unions
Teachers in Belgium stopped work for an hour on 1 February, in response to a call from education unions to denounce the Federal Government's pension policy.
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Standards and working conditions 2018-01-19 Education financing crisis sorely missed in World Bank’s Report
Education International has made the voice of the world’s educators heard loud and clear at the Belgian launch of the World Bank’s World Development Report.
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Union renewal and development 2017-12-05 Strengthening trade unions’ capacity to represent teachers and education personnel worldwide
Education International’s annual Development Cooperation meeting puts the focus on strengthening the capacity to speak with a strong and united voice for educators and education personnel.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2017-11-14 Belgium: Unions shed light on increasingly difficult job of being a teacher
Teaching is a ‘difficult’ job, according to a thousand educators at one of the largest teacher gatherings ever organised in Belgium.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2017-09-04 Belgium: limiting the impact of the francophone political crisis on the start of the school year
While close to 900,000 students and 100,000 teachers of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation are preparing to start a new school year, the Belgian teacher trade unionists have reaffirmed the importance of applying the Pact of excellence aimed at achieving quality education.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 2017-06-05 The CETA’s “Investment Court System”: A Supreme Tribunal to Protect the Wealth of Foreign Nationals
Imagine if governments proposed a supreme tribunal for the world. The tribunal would have the power to review anything countries can do in their sovereign role. It could review countries’ laws and regulations at any level. It could review the judgments of their highest courts.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2017-06-02 Datafication of education and professional organisation at heart of researchers’ discussions
The role of unions in helping teachers negotiate professional issues and the impact of data on education were standout topics during Education International’s Research Network.
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Union growth 2017-05-01 This May Day, why not try solidarity?
As the occasion to celebrate and reaffirm the value and values of trade unions, from which their principles continue to inspire, today must also serve as a lens to carefully examine our societies and institutions.
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Union renewal and development 2017-04-05 Executive Board pays tribute to lifelong champion of education
The Executive Board of Education International has expressed its recognition for a life devoted to education to Deputy General Secretary Charlie Lennon, who will retire in the coming months.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2017-04-04 Global education movement advances on its priority themes
The 49th meeting of the Education International’s Executive Board will take stock of measures and actions taken and to be taken to implement its quadrennial programme for quality education as mandated by the 2015 World Congress.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2017-02-14 Belgium’s new education pact not as excellent as it appears
The highly touted Pact of Excellence is under scrutiny as teacher unions express their concern that the effort to improve education in the country’s French-speaking region will harm the vocational sector and increase teacher workloads.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2016-12-08 UNESCO set for European launch of latest report on global education
To put the focus on fundamental societal changes needed to achieve global development goals, the new Global Education Monitoring Report is set to be officially released in Brussels.
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Standards and working conditions 2016-10-06 Aanbeveling inzake de status van leerkrachten, 1966
Aangenomen door de Bijzondere Intergouvernementele Conferentie inzake de status van leerkrachten te Parijs, in oktober 1966
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2016-08-29 Belgium: teachers paying out of pocket for classroom costs
With the school term about to begin in Belgian Flanders, a new survey has revealed that nine out of 10 teachers will spend over €93 on average out of their own pocket on classroom materials.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 2016-07-13 Students' and teachers’ unions call for education to be carved out from global trade agreements
Education International (EI) and the European Students' Union (ESU) urge governments in Europe, the United States, and beyond, to explicitly carve out education from global trade agreements such as the TTIP, the Trade in Services Agreement and the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement.
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Climate action and literacy 2016-06-16 Is Europe’s trade agreement with Canada the Trojan horse of TTIP?
This was the question being asked as Belgian education unionists and civil society activists debated the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement’s implications on the public sector, in particular education, recently in Brussels.
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Union growth 2016-05-31 Belgium: Halt to cuts in public services!
A general strike and mass demonstrations hit Belgium today. Trade unions protested against austerity measures, including cuts in the education budget, and condemning also a breakdown of social dialogue.
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Trade union rights are human rights 2015-11-23 Belgium: Schools remain closed amidst security threats
Schools and daycare centres in Belgium's capital Brussels remained closed today, as the federal government upheld the highest security threat level in the city.
Belgium: Schools remain closed amidst security threats