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Articles

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   Fighting the commercialisation of education 25 February 2025

   Go Public! Underfunding threatens Nordic education systems

   Despite their reputation for strong public education systems, Nordic countries in Europe are facing increasing inequalities, teacher shortages, and creeping privatisation. As governments shift the financial burden onto municipalities, schools are forced to compete with other public services for resources. The result? Wealthier areas can sustain higher investment in public...

   Go Public! Underfunding threatens Nordic education systems

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   Standards and working conditions 12 February 2025

   Nordic academic freedom under threat

   Jon W. Iddeng

   All democratic societies rely on facts and scientific evidence for societal decision-making. Academic freedom ensures that researchers and educators at universities can provide this evidence. These institutions have a special responsibility to meet society's need for basic, curiosity-driven research, to maintain a broad knowledge readiness, and to serve as a...

   Nordic academic freedom under threat

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   Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 26 June 2024

   Recognising the teacher crisis in Norway: a key step towards solving it

   Ann Mari Milo Lorentzen

   For years, we have fought for the recognition of the teacher crisis in Norway. A new multi-stakeholder strategy brings hope for change from early childhood to higher levels of education.

   Recognising the teacher crisis in Norway: a key step towards solving it

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   Standards and working conditions 13 November 2023

   Norway: Quality education, international solidarity, and addressing the teacher shortage are imperatives for unionists around the world

   In his final official speech as President of the Union of Education Norway (UEN), Steffen Handal, also a member of Education International (EI) Executive Board, reflected on educational realities in his country and around the world: “Never has the shortage of teachers been more pressing than now! Never have more...

   Norway: Quality education, international solidarity, and addressing the teacher shortage are imperatives for unionists around the world

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   Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 August 2023

   Truth and Reconciliation: the responsibility of education and teachers towards Sami, Kven and Forest Finn communities in Norway

   Kathrine Blyverket

   In 2018, Norway’s Parliament established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to examine historic policies and activities relating to Indigenous Peoples, including attempts to assimilate them. On 1 June 2023, after five years of work, the commission presented its report , based on interviews with more than 700 people, illustrating very...

   Truth and Reconciliation: the responsibility of education and teachers towards Sami, Kven and Forest Finn communities in Norway

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   Union renewal and development 27 February 2023

   European unions’ solidarity brings progress on social and policy dialogue, gender equity and union renewal

   Development cooperation (DC) partners of the European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE) – Education International’s European Region – met for a DC Café online and discussed activities related to social and policy dialogue, gender equity and union renewal.

   European unions’ solidarity brings progress on social and policy dialogue, gender equity and union renewal