Articles from Spain
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 24 September 2012 Spain:Spain:
Mar Candela
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 17 September 2012 Spain: no to spending cuts, yes to a referendum now!
On Saturday 15 September hundreds of thousands of demonstrators from all over Spain packed into the Plaza de Colón in Madrid to demand a change to the government’s policy of spending cuts. The rally was organised by the Cumbre Social (Social Summit), an association of over 150 organisations, including the...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 30 August 2012 Spain: Reforms promote student segregation
The school year will open in Spain with a heated debate about new educational reforms, imposed by government decree. Trade unions argue that the reform measures will promote early student segregation, bring private enterprise methods into public schools, and militate against “better quality in education”.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 15 May 2012 Spain: a red-hot spring in defence of state education
Education unions along with parents’ and students’ associations have called for a strike in Spain on May 22. The strike will make history, covering the whole education sector from Early Childhood Education up to university.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 18 April 2012 Spain: new cuts hit public education
The Spanish government has informed the country’s devolved Autonomous Regions about new ‘reform measures’ for public education to be passed by royal decree on Friday. They involve a €3 billion cut in the education budget which will necessitate an increase in teaching hours, the dismissal of 100,000 teaching staff and,...
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Union growth 29 March 2012 Spain: Workers’ rights under attack
Spanish unions have joined forces to support the country's largest ever general strike on 29 March. EI members, FETE-UGT, F.E.CC.OO. and FE-STES, are united in declaring that teachers will not stand by as the Government jeopardises basic workers’ rights and social dialogue through its latest labour reform legislation.
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Equity and inclusion 8 March 2012 Spain: FETE-UGT rewards the work of Republican female teachers
Spain’s female teachers of the Second Spanish Republic have received the award 8 de marzo, in acknowledgement of the important work carried out by them during the 1930s.
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Union growth 29 February 2012 European trade union federations back Spanish workers’ demands
European trade unions are backing Spanish trade union confederations in their campaign against the reform of the labour code in Spain. EI European region, the European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE) has issued, together with the European Federation of Public Service Unions and the European Transport Federation, a Solidarity...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 16 January 2012 Spain: Public sector financial crisis pushes schools to the brink of closure
Last week, 450 charter schools in the Valencia region of Spain threatened to close their doors, leaving 250,000 pupils on the streets. The reason: they can no longer pay their bills for basic, essential services such as electricity and water because they have not received any funding from the local...
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Standards and working conditions 24 October 2011 Spain: Teachers protest cuts to education budgets
A mass demonstration of teachers, parents and students from all over Spain occupied the centre of Madrid on Saturday sending a warning to the authorities: Don’t slash our education budget!
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Standards and working conditions 20 October 2011 Spain: Unions march for public education
On 22 October, teaching unions have organised a march through Madrid to protest against the public education cuts being imposed by autonomous regional authorities within the country.
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Standards and working conditions 16 September 2011 Spain: Teacher demonstrations mark the start of new school year
Representatives of the main teaching unions in Spain have called on the Socialist central government to take ‘a clear stand’ against deep cuts in public education budgets that have been imposed by largely Conservative autonomous regional authorities within the country.
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Standards and working conditions 30 August 2011 Spain: public education is paying for the crisis
In a letter to secondary school teachers in Madrid, the city’s region mayor, Esperanza Aguirre, called on teachers’ ‘sense of duty’ in this time of crisis to do two more contact hours a week from the beginning of the new school year.
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Union renewal and development 18 May 2011 Indian and Spanish teachers strengthen their trade union links in Madrid
Representatives of EI affiliate, Federación de Enseñanza de Comisiones Obreras (FE.CC.OO) met EI Vice-President and General Secretary of the All India Primary Teachers Federation (AIPTF), Subramaniam Eswaran, on May 11 in Madrid.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 28 March 2011 Inter-cultural education and co-existence in school
A new model of integration is emerging based on an equally integrationist curriculum in education centres. Secondary school teachers usually take a positive approach to inter-cultural education, although there is an evident correlation between the favourable attitudes of teachers and their training.
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Standards and working conditions 29 September 2010 General strike in Spain: teachers demand dignity and protection
Trade unions in Spain have called the whole country to take part in a general strike on 29 September to oppose changes in workers conditions and pension rights that Zapatero’s government is implementing.
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Trade union rights are human rights 8 June 2010 Spain: General strike against government cuts
The emergency economic adjustment plan approved to reduce public debt has caused a national outcry. Public sector trade unions have mobilised their members and civil society to call for a general strike in opposition to the moves.
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Equity and inclusion 4 June 2010 Spain: Education for equality
The Spanish union FETE-UGT has launched an awareness campaign on gender equality. Developed on the back of an agreement with the Ministry for Equality, it aims to open up new spaces for dialogue and debate on gender equality issues, while providing teachers with specific tools to address the issues across...
Spain: Education for equality