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   Equity and inclusion 11 June 2025

   Take action! Help defend quality early childhood education in New Zealand

   The New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) - Te Riu Roa is pushing back on government measures aiming to deregulate early childhood education. The Education International member organisation warns that these profit-driven decisions will negatively impact the sector, undermining quality and inclusivity. NZEI Te Riu Roa is calling on education unions...

   Take action! Help defend quality early childhood education in New Zealand

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   Trade union rights are human rights 5 June 2025

   International Labour Conference: Workers’ Group supports call to strengthen Recommendations concerning Teaching Personnel

   Addressing the Committee on the Application of Standards at the International Labour Conference on June 3rd, EI President Mugwena Maluleke responded to the report of the joint ILO-UNESCO Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendations concerning Teaching Personnel (CEART). As the Workers’ Group spokesperson, Maluleke welcomed the proposal...

   International Labour Conference: Workers’ Group supports call to strengthen Recommendations concerning Teaching Personnel

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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.

   Tackling the teacher shortage crisis in the Commonwealth

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   Equity and inclusion 13 August 2024

   Education Voices | Laures Park, Laureate of the 2024 Mary Hatwood Futrell Human and Trade Union Rights Award

   Laures Park

   At Education International’s 10th World Congress, Laures Park was awarded the 2024 Mary Hatwood Futrell Human and Trade Union Rights Award. In this interview, Laures retraces her fight for the rights of Māori people and minority groups in New Zealand.

   Education Voices | Laures Park, Laureate of the 2024 Mary Hatwood Futrell Human and Trade Union Rights Award

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   Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 26 January 2024

   International Day of Education: Unionists celebrate the right to education by campaigning for quality public education for all

   On January 24, the International Day of Education, education unionists from around the world came together to reaffirm their commitment to the universal right to education and to mark the first year of the Education International global campaign Go Public! Fund Education. The campaign is an urgent call for governments...

   International Day of Education: Unionists celebrate the right to education by campaigning for quality public education for all

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   Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 16 August 2022

   Ending Ability Grouping to empower Māori learners in Aotearoa New Zealand

   Liam Rutherford

   Variously practiced as ‘ability grouping’, ‘streaming’, ‘attainment grouping’, ‘setting’, ‘banding’ or ‘tracking’, pedagogical practices that group students based on perceived ability or prior achievement are longstanding and widespread world over. Research, however, has long shown that this has negative impacts for students, especially those from lower socio-economic backgrounds, ethnic minorities,...

   Ending Ability Grouping to empower Māori learners in Aotearoa New Zealand