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Fighting the commercialisation of education Privatisation in Chile - Report to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
11 November 2014The report was submitted by several civil society organisations to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ahead of its pre-session during the first week of December, following which it will decide on a "list of issues", including questions which the Chilean authorities will have to respond...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Privatisation in early childhood education - An explorative study on impacts and implications
Mathias Urban
16 October 2014This explorative study reveals a global trend towards increasing privatisation in Early Childhood Education (ECE), threatening to overshadow public ECE. Based on a qualitative inquiry targeting ECE practitioners and union representatives in 14 countries, it gathers practice-based evidence of the impact of privatisation in ECE on a variety of aspects...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Getting teacher migration and mobility right
Marie-Louise Caravatti, Shannon Lederer, Allison Lupico, Nancy Van Meter
31 May 2014With this study EI aims to identify best practices for international teacher migration, as well as to highlight issues of concern and expose abuses. This research report contributes new data and analysis that will deepen our understanding of the teacher migration phenomenon. It reaffirms our commitment to ensuring that migration...
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Leading the profession Study on trends in freedom of association and collective bargaining in the education sector since the financial crisis
Nora Wintour
18 September 2013Education International commissioned this study to examine trends in freedom of association and collective bargaining in selected countries throughout the world, both in countries which have been deeply affected by the crisis, such as the USA, Spain and Greece, as well as those countries which have continued to enjoy relatively...
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Standards and working conditions Teacher union governmental relations in the context of educational reform
Nina Bascia
18 September 2013This study points out that governments tend to ignore teacher unions, at their own peril when constructing education policies; and it's based on the idea that genuine partnerships between teacher unions and governments are based on understanding pluralism.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Closing the trained teacher gap
18 January 2013Every Child Needs a Teacher: Closing the Trained Teacher Gap is a report jointly produced by the Global Campaign for Education and Education International identifying severe primary teacher gaps, its impact on education systems and to make recommendations for closing this gap.
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Standards and working conditions Global managerial education reforms and teachers
Edited by Antoni Verger, Hülya Altinyelken Mireille de Koning
15 January 2013The EI Research Institute and the University of Amsterdam IS Academie "Education and Development" have co-published a volume exploring the role that teachers play in global policy processes and the effects of education reforms on teachers' labour and professionalism in seven case study countries, including India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Namibia, Peru,...
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Future of work in education The future of the teaching profession
John MacBeath
22 March 2012Drawing on the evidence on what it means to be a teacher in the 21st century, this Education International Research Institute study begins with an analysis of the current situation in differing countries of the world.
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Standards and working conditions Teacher self-efficacy, voice and leadership
John Bangs, David Frost
29 February 2012The study Teacher Self-efficacy, Voice and Leadership, commissioned by Education International Research Institute, comes at the time when teaching profession is increasingly facing pressures from society and policy makers and we need to reaffirm the role and potential of teachers in leading educational change.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Teaching under China’s market economy: Five case studies
Dr. Shibao Guo, Dr. Yan Guo, Dr. Gulbahar Beckett, Dr. Qing Li, Dr. Linyuan Guo
31 January 2012China probably runs the world’s largest education system today with the total number of teachers, including higher education, part time and non-formal teachers, employed by the public authorities reaching almost 15 million, which is about 20% of the planet’s teaching force.
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Standards and working conditions Global corporate taxation and resources for quality public services
Laura Figazzolo and Bob Harris
14 December 2011This report explains how the resources for investment in people can be found. Billions of dollars and euros are lost to communities because tax laws are national while the economy is global, and that simple fact has created unprecedented opportunities for tax minimization and avoidance.
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Equity and inclusion Schools at the margins
Laura Figazzolo
13 December 2011The global economic crisis, which started unexpectedly in 2008, struck societies with its consequences on public budgets and education funding, in particular. Effects have been more direct and profound in Central and Eastern Europe, whereas it has taken some time for the Western side of the continent to perceive them.
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Standards and working conditions Impacts of IMF policies on national education budgets and teachers
Rick Rowden
23 June 2011This Education International Research Institute report provides a critical review of how current IMF macroeconomic policy conditions and advice impact on the ability of borrowing countries to finance national education budgets, wages for public sector teachers, and how such policies affect the ability of governments to achieve the progressive realization...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Early Childhood Education: A Global Scenario
29 June 2010This study is a product of an early childhood education (ECE) mapping exercise conducted by the Education International ECE Task Force. Its findings reveal that there is a wide range of positive developments and experiences in several countries, including increasing participation rates, provision of comprehensive ECE services, as well as...
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Standards and working conditions Learning how to teach - The upgrading of unqualified primary teachers in sub-Saharan Africa
Herman Kruijer
21 April 2010In many developing countries, the increased enrolment of pupils in recent years has not been met by an increase in qualified teachers. Rather, to meet rapid expansions of student populations, large numbers of un- and under-qualified teachers have been recruited in recent years by governments in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Equity and inclusion Education for refugee and asylum seeking children in OECD countries
Paloma Bourgonje
16 March 2010This study examines the educational situation of refugee and asylum-seeking children in four countries: Australia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. In all four countries migration has been a subject of political discussion and even controversy in recent decades.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Alternative models for analysing and representing countries’ performance in PISA
Peter Mortimore
25 November 2009This independent report has been commissioned by Education International. Its purpose is to raise questions about the current form and focus of PISA and, where possible, to suggest how these might be improved.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Public private partnerships in education
9 September 2009In an era of stretched public budgets and reduced taxation revenues, the involvement of private resources is increasingly seen as a strategy to sustain expansion of education opportunities both in quantity and quality. This view is shared not only by governments and industry, but also by many unions.