Articles from Zimbabwe
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Climate action and literacy 2021-04-01 EIRAF Launches Climate Change Network in Southern Africa
EIRAF Launches Climate Change Network in Southern Africa
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Leading the profession 2020-10-21 “Africa: Collaboration between Unions and Governments for a Better Future in Education”, by Cherine Sabry.
Unions and governments have been in conflict since the dawn of time. The mere existence of unions as a force to defend workers’ rights where governments fail to do so in and of itself leads to this conflictual relationship. In Africa, unions have rarely been consulted during the COVID-19 crisis...
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Union growth 2020-10-21 Zimbabwe: Government must pay teachers decent salaries for them to resume work
The Zimbabwe Teachers’ Association (ZIMTA) and the Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) find themselves in confrontation with the government over teachers’ salaries and ‘incapacitation’, as teachers remain out of the classroom. They have urged the Government to improve its financial offer to teachers in order to get them to...
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Union renewal and development 2020-10-14 Member organisations celebrate World Teachers’ Day
Member organisations celebrate World Teachers’ Day
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Standards and working conditions 2020-08-28 New Zimbabwean law allows pregnant girls to continue with their education
A new law in Zimbabwe
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Trade union rights are human rights 2020-06-29 Zimbabwe: Trade unions win court battle on school re-opening
The Government of Zimbabwe announced that schools would reopen, already for examinations in late June and move forward in steps in the following weeks to re-open schools despite risks of an intensification of COVID-19 infections. Education trade unions challenged the re-openings as unsafe and premature and called for social dialogue...
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Future of work in education 2020-06-12 “Getting children back to school after the COVID-19 closures: how EI's child labour projects empowered teachers and their unions”, by Nora Wintour.
In the research study, conducted in 2018 and 2019 “EI/AOb Child Labour Projects: Transnational best practices and union impacts”, I examined how professional training programmes have enhanced teachers capacity to attract and retain children in school through participatory education techniques and how as a result of the child labour projects,...
“Getting children back to school after the COVID-19 closures: how EI's child labour projects empowered teachers and their unions”, by Nora Wintour. -
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2020-06-05 ‘You can work from home if the situation at home allows’: Teaching in times of the pandemic, by Josiah Taru.
The closure of schools has been commended as one of the most effective mitigatory measures to arrest the rapid spread of Covid-19 so far. Millions of learners and educators have been forced to continue learning through emergency remote instruction that involves online teaching. This presents novel challenges for educators in...
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Trade union rights are human rights 2019-10-31 Zimbabwe: Time’s up- no more delays! Teachers’ unions submit petition on collective bargaining rights to Parliament
On 24 October, two EI affiliates in Zimbabwe, the Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) and Zimbabwe Teachers’ Association (ZIMTA) submitted a petition to Parliament, calling on the government to grant full collective bargaining rights to public sector workers.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2019-10-17 “Higher ambitions for education and copyright in Africa and the world”, by 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 2019-08-27 Understanding the Invisible Workforce: Education Support Personnel’s Roles, Needs and the Challenges they Face.
By Philippa Butler.
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Union growth 2019-05-16 “Education Support Personnel: Shining light on the invisible workforce”, by Philippa Butler.
Education Support Personnel (ESP) are a vital part of the education workforce. They help to do all the background tasks and hidden duties that ensure that teachers can teach and students can learn. Together with teachers and school leaders, ESP are responsible for creating and sustaining a school culture where...
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Union growth 2019-02-04 Zimbabwe: key education unions embark in joint action to defend teachers’ conditions
For the first time ever, the two largest teacher unions in Zimbabwe have come together to defend the teaching profession and call for a teachers’ strike to obtain a salary increase from the government.
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Trade union rights are human rights 2019-01-09 Zimbabwe: teachers strike over pay as currency crisis deepens
As talks with the government failed to reach an agreement, Zimbabwean teachers are striking to press their government to pay their salaries with U.S. dollars.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 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 2017-06-11 Portrait of a teacher: Angellah Sigauke Tsitsi, Principal of New Years’ Gift primary school
"Living conditions are very harsh in this region. Some children have to walk up to eight kilometres every morning and evening, in order to attend the classes."
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Equity and inclusion 2017-06-11 The unions of Zimbabwe unite against child labour
In Zimbabwe, the PTUZ (Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe) and ZIMTA (Zimbabwe Teachers’ Association) unions have been involved in the Out of Work Into School project since 2015.
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Trade union rights are human rights 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.
This May Day, why not try solidarity?