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Democracy 30 September 2025 Education voices | Promoting academic freedom in the Philippines
Raymond D. Basilio
This testimony was collected as part of the research project entitled “In the eye of the storm: Higher education in an age of crises” conducted by Howard Stevenson, Maria Antonietta Vega Castillo, Melanie Bhend, and Vasiliki-Eleni Selechopoulou for Education International. The research report and executive summary are available here .
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Standards and working conditions 22 July 2025 From “unseen hands” to recognised professionals: Major union victory for education support personnel in the Philippines
When the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) launched the Education International (EI) Go Public! Fund Education campaign in The Philippines, the union ensured that the country’s 120,000 education support personnel (ESP) were at the very center of its advocacy. ACT mobilised around the rights, living and working conditions of the...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 24 April 2025 Teachers at the heart of climate justice: Addressing the crisis in Philippine schools
Ruby Bernardo
“These are not new problems; they are the result of decades of neglect in the education sector, now magnified by the escalating climate crisis. If we continue to ignore these urgent issues, our schools will remain not just ill-equipped for learning, but hazardous places for both students and teachers.”
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 11 March 2025 Education unions from Southeast Asia strategise next steps of the Go Public! Fund Education campaign
Education International (EI) member organisations from Indonesia, Cambodia, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines came together in Bangkok on March 7 to discuss and plan the next stage of the Go Public! Fund Education campaign in their countries and the region.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 9 December 2024 The Philippines: Unions commit to go public, fund education, and counter teacher shortage
With a declining education budget and an increasing national teacher shortage, education unions in the Philippines are demanding greater governmental investment to recruit and retain teachers and ensure quality education for all.
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Trade union rights are human rights 20 November 2023 We stand with France Castro. Education International firmly condemns the death threats against the Filipino congresswoman
France Castro has received repeated death threats from Rodrigo Duterte, former President of the Philippines. The lawmaker has filed a formal complaint against Duterte, making this the first criminal case against Duterte after the end of his mandate.
We stand with France Castro. Education International firmly condemns the death threats against the Filipino congresswoman
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Alliance of Concerned Teachers
ACT2/F Teachers’ Center Mines Corner Dipolog, Sts. Barangay Vasra Quezon City, ManilaFederation of Free Workers - Trade Federation VIII
FFWFFW Building 1943 Taft Avenue 1004 Malate, ManilaNational Alliance of Teachers and Office Workers
SMP-NATOW8th Floor, Room 36 City Residences Condominium P. Martinez St. 1552 Mandaluyong CityPhilippine Public School Teachers' Association
PPSTAhttp://www.ppsta.net [email protected] tel: +63 (2) 711.44.40 tel: +63 (2) 711.44.63 fax: +63 (2) 711.44.63PPSTA Building 245 Banawe Street Corner Quezon Avenue 1114 Quezon City, ManilaTeachers' Organisation of the Philippine Public Sector
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