Articles from Mexico
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Democracy 2018-07-25 In Latin America, teachers and students champion the right to attend university, by Yamile Socolovsky
15 June marked the centenary of the university reform led by the student movement in Córdoba, Argentina. This pioneering reform paved the way for a democratic reconstruction of academic institutions that shook the entire region. The transformation of Latin American public universities became a permanent battleground between those who yearned...
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Union growth 2018-07-04 Defending the right to education! Latin American teachers’ unions fighting against making education a business, by Gabriela Sancho
What is becoming increasingly significant in the rest of the world has long since been reality in Latin America; education as a business. To get parents to send their children to fee-paying private schools and students to attend expensive private universities, the public education system has had to be maligned...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2018-07-03 Mexico: Teachers fight to overhaul education reform measures
The Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (SNTE) is pushing for a structural review of the 2013 education reforms introduced by outgoing president Enrique Peña Nieto.
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Equity and inclusion 2018-06-28 Teachers, activists denounce U.S. immigration policies, attempt to deliver books, toys to detained children
A group of teachers, unionists, activists and religious leaders traveled to a detention center at the U.S. Mexico border to deliver books, toys and gifts to children incarcerated by U.S. immigration authorities.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2018-04-09 When it comes to challenges in higher education, unions make a difference
"The austerity in public sector budgets, the decline in salaries, the threats to academic freedom, the increasingly precarious nature of work stability, the expansion of privatization, and the reduction in unionised academic staff, are some of the main challenges faced by teachers in higher education”, Nelly Stromquist, an expert in...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2018-03-28 Open access to research highlighted at CIES conference
Education International and its affiliates’ work on open science and the publishing industry was showcased at this year’s Comparative International Education Society (CIES) conference.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2018-03-07 Mexico: SNTE Congress elects leaders and confirms unity amidst challenging times
The Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación, in an extraordinary Congress, modified its statutes, including adopting a provision that 50 per cent of its leadership positions must be held by women. They elected their leadership and strengthened their commitment to achieve improved teachers’ working and living conditions and quality...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 2018-01-22 The privatisation of education in Latin America: a cartography of policies, trends and trajectories.
by Antoni Verger, Maura Moschetti and Clara Fontdevila
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Trade union rights are human rights 2017-09-26 Mexico: Educators worldwide mourn victims, past and present
Victims of injustice and natural catastrophes have been remembered today September 26, weeks after hurricanes and earthquakes added many to the numbers of deceased, and three years after the forced disappearance of 43 students in Ayotzinapa.
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Union renewal and development 2017-09-22 Mexican teachers show their solidarity after the catastrophe
The Mexican union SNTE, an Education International member in Mexico, is providing crucial rescue and relief assistance to the communities struck by the earthquakes of the past few weeks.
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Union renewal and development 2017-08-18 Mexico: transforming schools into self-sustained communities
A new project by the Mexican union SNTE aims to improve the life quality of students, teachers and their families by turning schools into self-sustained units through the integration of education and agriculture.
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Union growth 2017-08-14 Mexico: global campaign demands justice for 43 missing Mexican students
A global campaign marking three years since the forced disappearance of 43 teacher students in Mexico is again calling for an investigation, reparation and justice.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2017-06-23 Mexico’s teachers’ union takes steps to ‘enrich’ the profession
With an agreement signed with the Organisation of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture, the National Union of Education Workers is seeking to strengthen the teaching profession through new education and research programmes.
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Equity and inclusion 2017-06-21 Mexican educators team up with UNESCO to launch multilingual indigenous education guide
The National Union of Education Workers and UNESCO announced that the pedagogical guide to indigenous education is now available in English and French, a move to provide greater access to the learning tool.
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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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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2017-02-24 Mexico: Union helps bridge the tech divide
Disadvantaged schools will be provided with new technologies and IT training for teachers, an initiative of Mexico's largest education union to help its members to overcome the technology gap that divides the country.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 2017-02-09 Mexico celebrates 100 years of education as a public right
The SNTE, Education International’s Mexican affiliate, spared no detail to celebrate 100 years of education as a right for all citizens, at the centennial anniversary of the adoption of its national constitution.
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Equity and inclusion 2016-12-01 Mexico: New guide to improve Indigenous education
The Mexican National Union of Education Workers (SNTE), together with UNESCO, has published a ground-breaking guide for teachers to help them excel in the delivery of Indigenous education in the classroom.
Mexico: New guide to improve Indigenous education