Articles from France
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2013-10-10 2014 Draft Budget: update in favour of students
On 18 September 2013 the European Commission proposed adjustments to its proposal for the 2014 EU budget.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2013-10-01 ETUCE YouTube Channel
ETUCE videos released on new YouTube Channel
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2013-09-03 France: Improved status for support workers for students with disabilities
EI affiliates the Syndicat national des enseignements de second degré (SNES-FSU), the Syndicat national unitaire des instituteurs, professeurs des écoles et PEGC (SNUipp-FSU), and the Union nationale des syndicats autonomes-Education (UNSA-Education) welcomed the announcement by Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault of the permanent appointment of 28,000 support workers for students with...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2013-07-04 France: 10,000 new teaching assistant jobs announced
The Syndicat national des enseignements de second degré (SNES-FSU) and the Syndicat des enseignants (SE-UNSA) affiliated to the Union nationale des syndicats autonomes-Education (UNSA-Education) welcomed Education Minister Vincent Peillon’s announcement that 10,000 additional staff are to be taken on “specifically for secondary schools” under subsidised contracts on top of the...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2013-05-03 France: Government move to improve primary teachers conditions
EI national affiliates UNSA Education (National Union of Independent Trade Unions-Education) and SNUipp-FSU (Single National Union of Primary, Middle and Secondary School Teachers) have reacted to French Education Minister Vincent Peillon’s memorandum of agreement containing category-specific measures for primary education personnel.
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Union growth 2013-02-13 France: primary school teachers strike for reform
The Syndicat national unitaire des instituteurs professeurs des écoles et PEGC - a national school teachers’ trade union (SNUipp-FSU), one of EI's national affiliates, announced that almost six teachers in 10 (58 per cent) went on strike on 12 February to demand a successful reform of school timetables for all...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2012-12-11 France: Improving working conditions for trainee teachers
The Syndicat National des Enseignements de Second Degré (SNES-FSU), organised a week of action for trainees which took place between 26th and 30th November. Trainees are men and women who have passed the national competitive recruitment examination and must complete a year as a trainee teacher before they are given...
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Standards and working conditions 2012-11-16 France: teachers – the embodiment of a public education service
National education provision in France is tripartite: the public service, which educates 84 per cent of pupils/students; private provision under contract with the State; and the private sector not under contract. Formal schooling, developed from the late 19th century, was secular in inspiration. The early educators embodied the vision of...
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Standards and working conditions 2012-11-16 France: a profession in search of confidence
The education system has become a topic in French political discourse these last six months: with the Presidential election, consultations on the status of the education system in a society in crisis, it is the future of generations to come that is at stake when education is broached. The economic...
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Standards and working conditions 2012-11-16 France: the much-needed relaunch of secondary education
The start of the 2012 school year, prepared mainly by the former administration (the Sarkozy government) has been a difficult one for secondary schools, owing to a lack of resources and the job cuts of recent years.
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Standards and working conditions 2012-11-16 France: Is the long-eroded status of teachers about to improve?
The status of teachers has been severely eroded in France over the last 10 years. This erosion accelerated noticeably during the Presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy. Instead of being considered a necessary investment for society, the education system was presented as a costly burden.
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Standards and working conditions 2012-11-09 Enhancing Teachers’ Status in France
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2012-10-26 France: unions evaluate government’s reform plans
France’s education unions have given a mixed response to President François Hollande’s priorities for education and his “road map” for National Education Minister Vincent Peillon.
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Standards and working conditions 2012-08-28 France: Teachers’ unions in reform consultations
EI’s French affiliates are preparing to draw up a report on the most important reforms for the education sector. This follows a consultation process launched in July by the Education Minister, Vincent Peillon, on the restructuring of the education system. The education unions have revealed their proposals which may contribute...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2012-08-06 France: Budget law includes a financial transaction tax
EI welcomes France’s new budget law, adopted by both parliamentary houses and including a 0.2 per cent tax on the purchase and sale of stocks in French companies with more than €1 billion in market capitalisation. This tax, implemented since 1 August, is double the 0.1 per cent tax proposed...
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Standards and working conditions 2012-04-17 France: trade union calls for enhanced status for the teaching profession and education for all
EI General Secretary, Fred van Leeuwen, took part in the national congress of one of the largest French EI members, the Syndicat national des enseignements de second degré (SNES-FSU). This congress, held in Reims, from 2-6 April, focused on “(Re)constructing secondary education for all”.
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Standards and working conditions 2012-04-16 France: Union addresses economic and social challenges in education
EI General Secretary, Fred van Leeuwen, took part in the national congress of one of the largest French EI member, UNSA-Education. The topic of the UNSA Education congress, “Taking up the challenges of the education system”, served as the core issue for the discussions held from 28-30 March 2012 in...
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Trade union rights are human rights 2012-03-19 EI expresses its sympathy after gunman shoots a teacher and three children at a Jewish school in France
EI General Secretary, Fred van Leeuwen, said he was shocked after hearing that an unidentified gunman opened fire on the Ozar Hatorah school, a private Jewish college in Toulouse in south-west France.
EI expresses its sympathy after gunman shoots a teacher and three children at a Jewish school in France