Norway: Trade Union of Education campaigns for Quality teaching
The Union of Education Norway (UEN) is connecting its activities to the 10 key messages adopted by the ETUCE Committee on ‘What is needed to improve the Quality of Education in Europe?’, aiming at securing quality education for all and quality for the teaching profession worldwide.
Within the framework of the IE/ETUCE initiative Unite for Quality Education, the UEN will organise a national conference on 13 - 14 March 2014 where Charlie Lennon, IE Vice-President will present the goals, expectations and challenges of the Global IE the initiative and Christine Blower, ETUCE President, will present the ETUCE campaign activities as well as UK-wide and NUT – National Union of Teachers, UK – actions. On this background the issues of privatisation, marketization and quality will be discussed. The conference will be attended by members of UEN Executive Board and elected representatives from all regions. The 10 key messages will be translated into Norwegian language and distributed to all the conference participants, published on UEN website as well as in the UEN Bulletin. The Bulletin is distributed in approximately 22.500 copies.
The activities carried out by the Trade Union of Education in Norway in the frame of the campaign Unite for Quality Education focus on Quality teacher training, as key message n. 6 states, and started already in 2013. An advertisement campaign on newspapers and magazines was carried out, in strong connection with the negotiations on working time of school teachers and Early Childhood teachers.
