Articles from Italy
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Trade union rights are human rights 23 May 2017 Italy: increasing numbers of refugee children choose a perilous journey in search of a better future
A new Education International study reveals the immense challenge facing Italian authorities and education personnel to help the thousands of unaccompanied minors safely integrate into society after reaching European shores.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 1 May 2017 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 24 August 2016 After earthquake, Italian unions join in solidarity
With many missing and over 200 reported dead, trade unions in Italy are taking action to provide first help and ensure the recovery of the communities hit by the devastating earthquake.
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Union growth 12 February 2015 Italy: government sidesteps social dialogue on teachers
Italian education unions have gone public to vent their opposition to the government’s vow of silence after calls to kick-start social dialogue on teachers’ employment conditions continue to go unanswered.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 30 September 2014 Italian education workers unite in opposition to new government plan
The 5 biggest Italian trade unions in education have joined forces to oppose a new plan set in motion by the Italian government. If carried out, the plan would extend the freeze of education workers’ salaries, which have been frozen since 2009, until 2018 and alter the structure of salaries...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 11 March 2014 Higher Education: early stage researchers’ status to be solved
On 6 -7 of March, 38 ETUCE members from 22 different countries, met in the framework of the Higher Education& Research Standing Committee (HERSC) meeting.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 5 March 2014 Italy: trade unions in education on the move for Quality of Education
Italian teachers trade union, such as FLC – CGIL, CISL Scuola and UIL Scuola, are eager to turn the 10 key messages adopted by the ETUCE Committee on ‘What is Needed to Improve the Quality of Education in Europe?’ to specific national recommendations for better Quality of Education.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 13 November 2012 The retreat of the government from Higher Education: the Italian case
In the recent OECD report, Education at Glance 2012, a number of indicators clearly show the critical state of education in Italy. This country invests less than two per cent of its GDP in higher education and research, its graduate numbers are falling, as is the number of its researchers...
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Standards and working conditions 12 September 2011 Italy: Teachers strike against cuts
Teachers in Italy have joined other public sector workers in mass strike action against cuts in public spending. Three million public sector workers went out on strike last week with major demonstrations in many cities including Milan, Naples and Rome. The protesters included teachers, transport workers and other public sector...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 29 November 2010 Italy: Huge turnout to defend the future of youth and employment
Italian student protesters have been out in force in the capital, Rome, and other cities as MPs debate a bill on education reform.
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Standards and working conditions 16 January 2009 Italians resist dismantling of public education
Teachers, parents and students across Italy are rallying in defense of quality public education and to protest a devastating package of reforms proposed the government of Silvio Berlusconi. Union leaders say it would turn back the clock thirty years in schools.
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Standards and working conditions 17 October 2008 EI supports its Italian member organisations' call against dismantling of education
Education International its EU organisation, the European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE), strongly support the call by their Italian member organisations - the Federazione Lavoratori della Connoscenza (FLC-CGIL), the CISL-Scuola and the UIL-Scuola for action against the plans by the government to dramatically downsize the education sector.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 28 November 2005 The struggle for a future: the case of Italian universities
The Bologna Process is an inter-ministerial initiative, gathering together 45 countries in the European region, which aims at establishing a European Higher Education Area by 2010. One would assume that with such an initiative in place, professionals in the Higher Education and Research sector in the European region enjoy a...
The struggle for a future: the case of Italian universities