Articles from United Kingdom
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 19 March 2018 UK teacher unionist wins Global Teacher Prize award
Education International congratulates UK teacher unionist Andria Zafirakou upon winning the 2018 Global Teacher Prize award.
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Equity and inclusion 15 March 2018 “What Europe can do for refugees and migrants’ education” by Silvia Costa MEP
Silvia Costa
Refugees and migrants education, especially minors, is a top priority, the best way to empower them and foster their integration, but also one of the principles on which the EU is funded. It is incredible, though, that education of migrants - especially forced migrants and refugees - seems to be...
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Equity and inclusion 7 March 2018 #8March: UK Union UCU addresses gender inequity head on
Joanna de Groot
Reducing gender disparity in pay and campaigning around issues of sexual harassment and violence against women in the workplace are two key areas focused on by the UK’s University and College Union (UCU).
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Union growth 5 March 2018 UK: higher education personnel full steam ahead to protect social benefits and decent pensions
Thousands of university staff have taken part in the biggest strike the UK higher education sector has ever seen, and successfully brought employers to the table for negotiations on social benefits.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 16 February 2018 UK: Solidarity with education union’s fight over university pensions
Education International’s European region, ETUCE, has sent a message of solidarity to University and College Unions members at 61 UK universities who are due to walk out soon in a dispute over changes to the universities’ pension scheme.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 February 2018 UK: Public watchdog marks Government’s card over teacher shortages
UK education unions have urged the government to urgently address the serious teacher supply problem, in light of a report on teacher numbers from the government’s Public Accounts Committee.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 29 January 2018 UK: Education unions support free school meals policy
UK teacher unions have welcomed the latest Education Policy Institute’s report clearly laying out the benefits that free school meals bring to children and their families, and to quality education in general.
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Trade union rights are human rights 9 January 2018 UK: Unions call for increased dialogue with new Education Secretary
Following the reshuffle of the UK government by Prime Minister Theresa May, educators have welcomed the nomination of Damian Hinds as Education Secretary, and anticipate an ongoing social dialogue with him.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 5 January 2018 Partnership needed to increase value accorded to education
Education in Scotland is undervalued, according to a recent study undertaken for Education International, which also stresses that public authorities and education policy makers must work with teachers and their unions on professional and national identity.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 4 January 2018 UK: Scrutinising the notion of ‘high-performing’ schools
Teacher unionists in the UK have requested public authorities to explain the term ‘high performing’ schools, and reiterated the need for social justice and social mobility for all young people.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 21 December 2017 UK: official education inspection body needs to up its game, say unions
UK teacher unions have re-affirmed the Government’s responsibility to acknowledge the need for a fully functioning and quality education system.
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Standards and working conditions 11 December 2017 UK: Workload driving teachers out of profession – union survey
Workload is the biggest barrier to young teachers making the profession their career, UK young teachers have highlighted.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 23 November 2017 The child at the centre: the Scottish experience on health and wellbeing in schools
Goof Buijs
Scotland is one of the leading countries in the world when it comes to promoting the health and well-being of school-aged children. Since Scotland got its own parliament in 1999, the Scottish Government has full responsibility for its education system. Top priority in the national policy is to reduce health...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 22 November 2017 UK: unions push for increased education spending in latest budget
To improve education for the country’s children, teachers’ unions have urged the UK Government to increase funding for schools as the country gears up for its budget and schools face real-term cuts.
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Standards and working conditions 5 November 2017 Academic freedom and the 1997 UNESCO Recommendation: a view from Europe
Rob Copeland
For unions in the higher education and research sector, this year’s World Teachers’ Day takes on the greatest significance.
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Standards and working conditions 25 October 2017 UK: Flexible working needed to solve recruitment and retention crisis
Better part-time and flexible working opportunities can help solve the teacher recruitment and retention crisis in the UK, say education unions in response to the latest National Foundation for Educational Research’s report.
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Equity and inclusion 18 October 2017 NASUWT (UK) joins forces with Citizens UK to promote « refugee welcome schools »
The UK’s response to the Syrian refugee crisis means that at least 20,000 refugees from that conflict will arrive between now and 2020. Many will be resettled in communities that have never hosted refugees before.
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Equity and inclusion 18 October 2017 In the UK, racial inequality in schools is ‘deep-rooted, endemic and institutionalised'
Patrick Roach
Last week’s Racial Disparity Audit depressingly confirms what many of us know - namely that racial disadvantage and discrimination is widespread within our school system.
In the UK, racial inequality in schools is ‘deep-rooted, endemic and institutionalised'