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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 28 June 2016 Quality assurance of higher education well underway
The importance of student centred learning was emphasised by Education International to mark the completion of the first phase of activities of the Enhancing quality through innovative policy and practice project on 9 June.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 June 2016 UK: Trade union action escalates in university pay dispute
The University and College Union in the United Kingdom has decided on a strategy of disruption targeted at open days, graduation days and an assessment boycott to protest short-term contracts and a gender pay gap.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 June 2016 10th Further and Higher Education and Research Conference, in Accra, Ghana10th Further and Higher Education and Research Conference, in Accra, Ghana
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 May 2016 UK university lecturers stage walkout in fight for equal gender pay and fair contracts
Members of the University and College Union have launched a two-day strike across the UK in response to falling salaries and precarious contracts after the employers’ final offer was viewed as “an insult.”
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 23 October 2015 South Africa’s president backs down from raising university tuition
President Jacob Zuma has reversed his decision to raise tuition fees in 2016 amid major student protests that have swept across the country in opposition to a proposed 11.5 percent hike.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 15 October 2015 GEW initiative on the verge of a breakthrough: reform of limited-term employment contracts in academia imminent in Germany
Until January 2016, the German federal government plans to amend the Academic Temporary Contract Law (WissZeitVG), which provides the legal basis for the use of temporary fixed-term contracts.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 July 2015 Resolution on public research and scientific and academic freedoms
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 20 July 2015 Successful first ever Further and Higher Education Caucus
The Education International President Susan Hopgood inaugurated the first ever Further and Higher Education Caucus at the EI 7th World Congress on 20 July in Ottawa, Canada.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 29 May 2015 Iraq: Kurdistan’s teachers renew vow to work with education ministry
The Kurdistan Teachers’ Union has reaffirmed its intension to work with the Iraqi Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research to improve the quality of education, teachers’ status, and working and living conditions.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Creating a supportive working environment in European higher education
Marie Clarke
30 April 2015Creating a supportive working environment in European higher educationCreating a positive working environment is key to the future success of higher education across Europe. Self-direction and autonomy are positive influences in the work context. Those who feel supported at work will enjoy their experience, like their jobs and have high levels of job satisfaction. The capacity to form...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 The Bologna Process under threat
29 April 2015The Bologna Process under threatIn this study, academics across nine countries in Europe identified a number of key issues that impacted upon their working environment. These included the impact of decreased funding; the difficulties experienced in forming supportive relationships; negative experiences of academic life in the initial years; a deterioration in working conditions; the...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 EI Report to the Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendation concerning Teachers | 2015
15 April 2015EI Report to the Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendation concerning Teachers | 2015The Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendation concerning Teachers (CEART) is a joint committee of the ILO and UNESCO composed of 12 Experts. It meets every three years and is charged with monitoring the implementation of the 1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers and the...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 24 March 2015 Spain’s universities go on strike against government reform
Public higher education is shutting down today in Spain, as teachers, support staff and students close ranks against the latest government’s reforms, arguing that they open the path to privatisation and hamper access for all.
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Standards and working conditions The Status of Teachers and the Teaching Profession
Vasileios Symeonidis
3 March 2015The Status of Teachers and the Teaching ProfessionThis report is based on an extensive survey (responses from 73 Education International (EI) member organisations from all regions). It reveals the threats to the status of teachers from misguided “reforms” leading to precarious working conditions for teachers and education workers and curbing teachers' professional development, professional autonomy, social dialogue,...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 23 January 2015 Trade unionists gathered in Vienna to challenge the liberalisation of public services in TTIP and beyond
On 15 and 16 January 2015 ETUCE together with EPSU, AK and ÖGB are organizing a training seminar on how to challenge the liberalisation of public services in TTIP, CETA and TiSA.The event is taking place in the premises of ÖGB in Vienna and has gathered 100 trade union representatives...
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Leading the profession 16 December 2014 Teaching around the worldTeaching around the world
Linda Darling Hammond
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 10 November 2014 Higher Education Conference demands quality and equality in education
Over 80 delegates have convened in Brussels to discuss the state of the art of higher education and research, with a special focus on the effects of privatisation and marketisation.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 21 October 2014 Canadian academics heighten calls for fair employment
The theme of this year’s Fair Employment Week, ‘Fair for All,’ highlights the importance of protecting all academic staff, from professors to librarians and researchers, working at universities across Canada.
Canadian academics heighten calls for fair employment