Articles from Senegal
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Trade union rights are human rights 7 May 2020 Senegal: recovering education at all levels while saving lives
Members of teacher unions in Senegal want to avoid the current school and university year being left “blank” because of the COVID-19 epidemic. While they acknowledge that distance learning is helping education to continue, they insist on an organised recovery of the academic year at educational facilities with proper safety...
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Trade union rights are human rights 27 April 2020 Senegal: COVID-19 crisis will have a terrible impact on the country’s education system
Members of Senegal’s teaching unions fear the rapid aggravation of the coronavirus crisis in their country and are taking action to ensure teacher and pupil safety, as well as educational continuity.
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Trade union rights are human rights 20 March 2020 Francophone Africa: Lack of consultation with education unions creates uncertainty as to how learning can continue during COVID-19 school closures
Education unions in Francophone Africa are dismayed at the lack of consultation in government decisions to close all education establishments to fight the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The unions representing teachers and education support personnel report that they had not been consulted on the best ways to ensure quality...
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Leading the profession 17 October 2019 “Higher ambitions for education and copyright in Africa and the world”, by Mugwena Maluleke.
Mugwena Maluleke
African nations actively participated in the development of the Sustainable Development Agenda that acknowledged the centrality of education in the achievement of all other plans for a better world. Like other nations of the world, they committed to the provision of a single, renewed education agenda that is holistic, ambitious...
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Equity and inclusion 16 April 2019 Young Senegalese and Ivorian teachers come together for quality education and effective trade unions
Young teacher-activists from Senegal and the Ivory Coast came together to exchange ideas and expand their knowledge on a number of issues relating to attaining quality education for all.
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Union renewal and development 9 August 2018 #EI25: "Remaining a trade unionist and staying strong", by Marième Sakho Dansokho (SYPROS, Senegal)
Marième Sakho Dansokho
Education International (EI) is celebrating 25 years of existence; 25 years of advocacy for education and the teaching profession. A long journey peppered with successes, wins and persistent challenges. EI and its affiliated organisations have to contend with capital and capitalists more concerned with their own profits than with the...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 27 June 2018 EI promotes the ideas of youth to strengthen unions in Senegal and Ivory Coast
The continuation of the program led by Education International in Senegal and Ivory Coast has the aim of spreading unionisation,getting young activists involved in union activity, and strengthening trade union unity.
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Equity and inclusion 20 June 2018 On the importance of education for young refugees, by Gloria Ihirwe Ntakirutinka
Gloria Ihirwe Ntakirutinka
On the occasion of World Refugee Day, Gloria Ihirwe Ntakirutinka, a young Rwandan refugee pursuing higher education in Senegal, shares her experience and her fight for access to higher education for refugees.
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Union renewal and development 6 March 2018 Development cooperation, an ideal tool for union renewal
Education International and its affiliates have committed themselves and worked, through their development cooperation activities, towards ensuring that young and early stage teachers and support personnel are adequately represented and empowered within their unions.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 22 February 2018 Reflections on GPE replenishment: rhetoric, facts, questions and the way forward.
Jefferson Pessi
The city of Dakar, the fascinating and lively capital of Senegal, was the stage of two key moments in the history of global governance of education. First, in the year 2000, it hosted the World Education Forum that adopted the Education for All Goals. Second, eighteen years later, on February...
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Standards and working conditions 2 February 2018 World leaders pledge continued support for education in Dakar
Throughout the day, governments from all around the world made commitments on continued education financing both at home and through contributions to the Global Partnership for Education. At its Replenishment Conference in Dakar, Senegal, governments pledged to continue making funds available to give every child the chance to go to...
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Union renewal and development 1 February 2018 #FundEducation: Teachers are essential to achieving quality education
As the Global Partnership for Education meets for its Replenishment Conference in Dakar, Senegal, Education International leaders have stressed the importance of teachers in achieving quality education for all and in meeting the many challenges affecting education systems worldwide.
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Standards and working conditions 30 October 2017 Francophone education unions assemble to improve the teaching profession
After meeting in Dakar, the Board of the Comité Syndical Francophone pour l’Education et la Formation committed to promoting quality public education accessible to all, as well as increase vibrant and respected teacher trade unionism.
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Union growth 5 September 2017 Senegal: the latest workplace elections shuffle the deck of teacher trade unionism
The first representative elections in Senegal's education sector, in which one out of ten trade unions was declared representative, have created a unique trade union landscape and fostered new alliances.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 6 June 2017 Senegal: recognition of teachers' unions' commitment to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals
The Global Partnership for Education commended the Senegalese education unions for their active commitment to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, in particular in the area of quality education for all.
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Union growth 9 May 2017 African education union leaders reaffirm commitment to improve unity
The Regional Dialogue Forum on Human Resources Issues in the Education Sector provided African teacher union leaders and education stakeholders with the opportunity to stress the importance of teacher trade union unity and social dialogue on education.
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Union growth 1 May 2017 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 19 August 2016 West Africa: Education partners commit to improve access to quality early childhood education
The importance of ensuring access for all to quality early childhood education in West and Central African countries was highlighted at a workshop organised by UNESCO BREDA in Dakar, Senegal, from 27-28 July.
West Africa: Education partners commit to improve access to quality early childhood education