Articles from Philippines
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Equity and inclusion 2018-05-16 Discovering more about Education Support Personnel, by Philippa Butler
Education Support Personnel (ESP) play a vital role in promoting quality education, fostering a safe and positive learning environment for all students, and ensuring that schools and education institutions function effectively. ESP cover a wide range of people working in the education sector, such as teaching and learning assistants, school...
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Equity and inclusion 2018-03-29 Philippines: Criminalisation of indigenous leaders and human rights defenders
Education International joins its affiliate the Alliance of Concerned Teachers in expressing alarm about the deteriorating human rights situation in the Philippines, as the country’s State Prosecutor is seeking to have teachers, Indigenous peoples’ leaders and human rights defenders declared terrorists and outlaws.
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Trade union rights are human rights 2017-08-31 Philippines: worldwide support grows for Lumad teachers and students fighting for their right to education
Teacher unions globally continue to show solidarity and answer the Education International’s call to action, condemning ongoing attacks against Lumad schools, teachers, students and their communities in the Philippines.
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Trade union rights are human rights 2017-08-20 Filipino colleagues and students receive a wave of education union solidarity
Teacher unions globally have condemned continuing attacks against Lumad schools, teachers, students and communities in the Philippines, a show of solidarity which comes after a call to action from Education International.
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Union growth 2017-08-03 Philippines: UN experts urge government to put an immediate halt to human rights violations
Education International reiterates its call for action and great concerns, after UN experts declared that the “Philippines needs urgent action to reverse spiraling rights violations”.
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Union growth 2017-07-27 Philippines: End attacks against indigenous teachers, students and schools
Education International has called on its member organisations to condemn the continuous harassment and attacks against students, teachers and human rights activists of the Lumad indigenous communities on Mindanao island in the Philippines.
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Standards and working conditions 2017-07-10 The Philippines: Education union mobilises against low pay
The Alliance of Concerned Teachers has firmly condemned what they see as Filipino public authorities’ anti-teacher statements and policies.
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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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Fighting the commercialisation of education 2016-11-09 Philippines: shining a light on a shadowy edu-business
In a forum held at Manila City Polytechnic University, teacher unionists and students could gain first-hand information about the operations of the so-called Affordable Private Education Centers in their country.
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Equity and inclusion 2016-08-12 Filipino teachers ready to improve minorities’ rights
Action plans to promote and protect the rights of minorities, particularly for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people, were devised at an Education International workshop for teacher unionists in the Philippines.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2016-04-07 Philippines: teachers defend quality education against increased privatisation
Filipino teachers are fighting the government’s ‘K to 12’ plan which they believe would increase education privatisation and commercialisation and be detrimental to access to quality education for all.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 2016-02-01 Commercialization of education in the Philippines
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Standards and working conditions 2016-01-13 Filipino teachers granted ‘meagre’ salary increase
Educators in the Philippines have reacted strongly after a law was passed, granting them a ‘meagre’ and ‘insulting’ salary increase, while other sectors received a much higher salary raise.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 2015-11-22 Philippines: corporate inroads on public education
The latest in-depth Education International study reveals the extent to which the Philippine government has opened its doors to the rampant growth of privatised education, putting corporate interests ahead of its children and their families.
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Equity and inclusion 2014-11-05 Philippines: Gender equality prioritised at women’s network
Gender action plans and equality in schools, the Magna Carta for women, and gender based violence against teachers – these were the topics debated at the latest evaluation and planning meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Women’s Network (AWN)-Philippines.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2014-09-18 Philippines: Educators back Unite campaign
Di kami titigil! – We will never stop until we achieve quality education for all in the Philippines! This is the rallying slogan used by the National Alliance of Teachers and Office Workers (SMP-NATOW) to galvanise teachers, students and communities who took action on 7 September.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2014-06-16 Philippines: Union congress pushes quality education forward
The Teachers’ Organisation of the Philippine Public Sector (TOPPS), focused on EI’s Unite for Quality Education Campaign during its 5th Triennial Congress held from 3-6 May in Brentwood Apartelle, Baguio City. The Congress’s theme was “TOPPS: United for Quality Education for a Better Public Education”.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2014-06-03 Philippines: Union’s Congress focuses on quality education
The National Alliance of Teachers and Office Workers (SMP-NATOW), one of EI’s national affiliates in the Philippines, held it 13th National Congress in Mandaluyong on 25-26 May with the theme “SMP-NATOW at 43: united, great, and free”. The EI Unite for Quality Education (Unite) Campaign was one of the sub-themes...
Philippines: Union’s Congress focuses on quality education