Articles from United Kingdom
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Equity and inclusion 13 March 2019 The #CSW63 Diaries
Michelle Codrington-Rogers
Michelle Codrington-Rogers, Junior Vice-President of the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT)/UK, is currently an EI delegate to the 63rd Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW63). Follow the event through the eyes of teacher unionist on her blog. (https://mcn--nasuwt.blogspot.com/?m=1)
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Union growth 13 March 2019 UK: Union deplores weak legal protection of academic freedom
Following the findings of a major report on academic freedom in the United Kingdom, the University and College Union has submitted an allegation to the Joint International Labour Organisation/UNESCO Committee of Experts regarding the non-compliance of the UK government's with the 1997 UNESCO Recommendation on the status of higher education...
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Trade union rights are human rights 5 March 2019 UK: asbestos makes schools unhealthy for teachers and students
Education unions in the UK have reaffirmed the urgent need to protect students and education workers from asbestos in schools.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 28 January 2019 UK: trade union call for improved and targeted financing of education
Education unions have urged the UK public authorities to increase investment in schools and implement adequate distribution of funding.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 30 October 2018 UK: Chancellor’s budget speech does not address damage to children’s education of austerity
Education unions in the United Kingdom have expressed their deep disappointment at the Chancellor’s budget speech, which, by only proposing ‘little extras’, does not end austerity measures that have been in effect for years, undermining schools and educators’ financial means as well as quality education for all.
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Standards and working conditions 25 October 2018 UK: Education union concerns remain after reform to the framework of the school inspection
Following the admission by the Chief Inspector of the school inspection agency Ofsted that focus on data has been a major factor in schools becoming exam factories, UK teacher unions have reiterated their views that the focus put on data has achieved the opposite of what the agency intended, namely...
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Union renewal and development 14 September 2018 UK: Employers misuse data rules to stifle workers’ rights
Some employers in the UK are discriminating against employees and undermining education unions after the adoption of GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations). That’s according to the NASUWT (National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers).
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Trade union rights are human rights 7 September 2018 UK: education unions express concerns about student and teacher’ wellbeing on the release of GSCE results
The release of this year’s results of the GSCE, the certificate ending secondary education in the UK, have prompted teacher unions to criticise the latest governmental reforms in the education system, and express their concerns about student and educator health and wellbeing.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 24 August 2018 Statement to the G20 Education and Employment Ministers
As the voice of the world’s educators, we welcome the inclusion of education as a priority for the G20, and hope the commitment to education will be ensured moving forward into Japan in 2019.
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Union renewal and development 2 August 2018 "Is DFID’s approach to education worldwide approved by teachers in the UK?", by Samidha Garg and Anja Nielsen
Anja Nielsen, Samidha Garg
In February 2018, the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), the institution responsible for administering the majority of the UK’s development assistance, released Get Children Learning, the Department’s new education policy.
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Trade union rights are human rights 2 August 2018 UK: worrying mental health issues for too many students
Reacting to the announcement from the UK Department for Education on plans for all schools to teach children about good physical and mental health, the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers has stressed that mental health issues represent a daily fact of life for many students.
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Democracy 20 June 2018 ILO Director General denounces “New Brutalism”
“We have entered an age of new brutalism,” ILO Director General Guy Ryder told delegates of the 5th World Congress of UNI in Liverpool on 19 June. “We have entered an age where it is OK to dehumanize those who are rejected, who are marginalized, who are different or who...
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Trade union rights are human rights 19 June 2018 UNI Global Union elects Christy Hoffman as General Secretary
The Union Network International (UNI) elected Christy Hoffman, a labour leader from the United States, as its new General Secretary.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 19 June 2018 “Between hope and despair in the EU copyright reform- What's in it for education?”, by Nikola Wachter
Nikola Wachter
I am a teacher by training and I am concerned about the current European Union copyright reform. I am familiar with the day to day practices of preparing lessons, the search for the best picture, text snippet, piece of music or video that will help me to explain a certain...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 May 2018 Go for it! The Bologna ministerial summit in Paris, by Andreas Keller
Andreas Keller
Isn’ it ironic? 50 years ago, in May 1968, students in Paris were going to the barricades and aspiring to a societal revolution – and initiated an overdue reform of higher education almost throughout Europe eventually. Today, in May 2018, ministers in charge of higher education from 48 countries belonging...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 May 2018 Educators confront Pearson for funding profit driven Bridge International Academies
Education activists, teachers and global union leaders went to London to urge shareholders at the Pearson Annual General Meeting to stop funding Bridge International Academies, a for-profit company that makes money by shortchanging the education of thousands of at risk children.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 7 May 2018 #ResNet: Amplifying teacher voice: getting stuck into research, by Philippa Cordingley
Philippa Cordingley
One of the things we are exploring in our research into how different countries construct teachers’ professional identities that will be presented at Education International’s annual Research Network meeting today, is the nature of the links between investing in research-informed teaching and amplifying teachers’ collective professional voice.
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Standards and working conditions 24 April 2018 Not waiting for superman, by David Frost
David Frost
Last week I was fortunate in being able to participate in a conference on the island of Krk on the Croatian coast. The best part was linking up with colleagues from NGOs in places such as Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Macedonia and Palestine – all quite challenging contexts. It...
Not waiting for superman, by David Frost