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Equity and inclusion 25 February 2014 International Women’s Day 2014
Celebrated annually on 8 March, International Women’s Day encourages advocacy for women's advancement and gender equality. With thousands of events worldwide, it calls for challenging the status quo for women's equality and for inspiring positive change.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 7 February 2014 European elections 2014: a turning point for the European democracy built on quality education
A new initiative has been launched by the ETUCE to give candidates to European elections the opportunity to pledge to the ETUCE 10 key messages on “What is needed to improve the Quality of Education in Europe”.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 27 January 2014 Health& Safety - Project Results Published
The results of the latest ETUCE Health and Safety project Teacher trade unions in solidarity for healthy and safe workplaces in the economic crisis were disseminated last week. ETUCE member organisations will receive USB Flash Drives to disseminate the project results among their members and affiliates.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 27 January 2014 Gender Equality Surveys Open to Participation
On 1 February 2014, ETUCE will start a survey that focuses particularly on gender equality in teacher unions and in the teaching profession.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 27 January 2014 Priorities of the Greek Presidency in education and training
On 1 January 2014, Greece took over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The key priorities of the Greek presidency on education are high quality, efficient and equitable education and training systems to enhance employability in Europe.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 27 January 2014 Demonstration to support women in Spain and the abortion right in Europe
On 29 January 2014, a demonstration is planned to show solidarity with Spanish women and to fight for the right of abortion in Europe.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 27 January 2014 Demonstration for a more social Europe
ETUCE will take part in the European trade union demonstration on 4 April 2014 organised by the European Trade Union Confederation, ETUC.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 13 January 2014 New ETUCE Project: Development of teacher unions’ expertise on exiting the crisis through quality education
In December 2013, a new ETUCE project was launched to tackle the issue of ‘Developing teacher unions’ expertise on exiting the crisis through quality education’, with the objective of addressing the global EU policy aim of exiting from the crisis through improved expertise in industrial relations and social dialogue.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 13 January 2014 Nouveau rapport Eurydice sur l’Enseignement et la formation en Europe 2020
Eurydice a publié un nouveau rapport: Enseignement et formation en Europe 2020 - Réponses des Etats membres
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 10 December 2013 The first results of the survey of Adult Skills - Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC)
The OECD's PIAAC survey is the first world-wide survey on adults' skills. It tested literacy, numeracy and problem solving ICT skills of adults aged 16-65. PIAAC covers only 17 countries from Europe.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 9 December 2013 Failure of the EU’s Eastern Partnership
The Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius that took place on 28-29 November 2013 ended as a failure.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 9 December 2013 Safeguarding public education against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
The EU and the US started negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership in July 2013.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 9 December 2013 Annual Growth Survey strongly criticised by Members of the European Parliament
The Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) criticised strongly the European Commission for its Annual Growth Survey, which repeatedly gives over-optimistic economic forecasts. According the MEPs, the European Commission is not taking sufficient account of these errors and not adapting its economic reform recommendations to tackle the ensuing social problems.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 9 December 2013 ETUCE conference: Preventing Early School Leaving through ICT
On 28-29 November 2013, the final conference of the ETUCE project Teacher Unions Preventing Early School Leaving through the Use of ICT in Education took place in Bratislava, Slovakia.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 November 2013 ETUCE Final Conference on the Teaching Profession, Berlin
The Final conference of the ETUCE project: “The development of the teaching profession in times of the economic crisis as a key task for social partners in education. Finding joint strategies to tighten the links between education and the labour market.” is to be held in Berlin on 13-14 November...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 28 October 2013 Miscellaneous news
Other related news on EU issues
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 28 October 2013 High-level social partners agreement with the Commission on education and training
During the recent years, ETUCE has issued a number of positions and had several meetings with the Directorate-General of Education and Culture of the European Commission, wherein we urged the European Commission to invite the social partners to more dialogue on policy initiatives of the European Commission on education and...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 28 October 2013 Spain: 83% of education employees take part in general strike
The Spanish unions CCOO, FETE-UGT and STES-I stated that the general strike of the education employees, which took place on 24 October 2013 across Spain and was called for by the National Platform for Public School, was very successful.
Spain: 83% of education employees take part in general strike