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Equity and inclusion 10 October 2025 Teachers and their unions use innovative and empowering approaches to ensure the right to education for girls in all their diversity
Marking the International Day of the Girl Child
On the International Day of the Girl Child and every day, educators around the world are fully committed to advancing girls’ rights through education.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 19 August 2025 Building momentum for public education in the Pacific
Education unions from across the Pacific region – Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Samoa and Vanuatu – met to address the ongoing worldwide teacher shortages, calling governments and international institutions to prioritize public education and invest in teachers, echoing the United Nations (UN) recommendations on the teaching profession .
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Standards and working conditions 31 July 2025 Education voices | Rising against the drive to commercialise higher education in Fiji
Rosalia Fatiaki
This testimony was collected as part of the research project entitled “In the eye of the storm: Higher education in an age of crises” conducted by Howard Stevenson, Maria Antonietta Vega Castillo, Melanie Bhend, and Vasiliki-Eleni Selechopoulou for Education International. The research report and executive summary are available here .
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 27 March 2025 Tackling the teacher shortage crisis in the Commonwealth
Oliver Mawhinney
44 million teachers are need globally by 2030 – a shortage that affects developing and developed countries alike, as demonstrated across the Commonwealth.
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Standards and working conditions 24 February 2025 Fired for speaking up against a dictatorial Vice Chancellor
Tamara Osborne-Naikatini
Working as a Biology lecturer at the University of the South Pacific (USP) has always been a labour of love for me. Spread over thousands of kilometers of oceanic expanse and hundreds of lush tropical islands, spanning twelve countries in the (generally) South Pacific region, the university’s domain is truly...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 29 September 2023 Copyright in education: bringing the classroom to life
Dr Dara Dimitrov
As the daughter of a refugee, education as a necessity was drummed into me. ‘You need to get a good education’ was my father’s lead mantra. My father was denied that right, and although he spoke seven languages, he could barely read one. My father saw education as a way...
Copyright in education: bringing the classroom to life
Development Cooperation Projects
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COPE Regional Youth Training Program
- Host organizations
- All COPE Affiliates
- Cooperating organizations
- COPE DC Partners – AEU, IEU, NZPPTA, NZEI
- Countries
- Fiji - COPE (Pacific)
- Start date
- 15 October 2019
- End date
- 17 October 2019
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Global Response
- Host organizations
- COPE
- Cooperating organizations
- COPE unions
- Countries
- Pacific Islands (Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu)
- Start date
- 1 June 2019
- End date
- 31 October 2019
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FTU & FTA International Women’s Day Celebration
- Host organizations
- Fiji Teachers Union (FTU) and Fijian Teachers Association (FTA) - Fiji
- Cooperating organizations
- COPE DC Partners – AEU, IEU, NZPPTA, NZEI
- Countries
- Fiji - COPE (Pacific)
- Start date
- 8 March 2019
- End date
- 8 March 2019
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Capacity Building Workshop “Teachers Unions for Inclusion: Embracing Diversity and Promoting Safe Schools
- Host organizations
- Fijian Teachers Association (FTA), Fiji Teachers Union (FTU), Association of University of the South Pacific Staff (AUSPS)
- Cooperating organizations
- EI & UNESCO Bangkok Office
- Countries
- Fiji - Pacific
- Start date
- 3 December 2018
- End date
- 4 December 2018
Affiliates
Association of the University of the South Pacific Staff
AUSPSP.O. Box U49 University of the South Pacific Laucala Campus SuvaFiji Teachers' Union
FTUP.O. Box 2203 SuvaFijian Teachers' Association
FTAP.O. Box 14464 Suva