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During this pandemic, it has become very obvious who the essential workers are. Let me be clear. I am not criticizing mayors, university presidents or school superintendents. But amid the COVID-19 contagion, we would be nowhere without custodians, paraprofessionals, food service workers, administrative assistants and school bus drivers.
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The Catalan Government has recently decided to withdraw the subsidies to all private schools in Catalonia that segregate students based on their sex, as they do not fulfill the principle of coeducation. These schools, most of which belong to conservative religious institutions, have been publicly subsidised for decades. However, public funds may cease in the academic year 2021–2022 following the decision of the Catalan government.
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The Covid-19 pandemic was the context for two major disruptions in education. The first was the disruption to schooling for millions of students worldwide, and a rapid shift to remote learning online. The second, closely related disruption was the entry of the commercial education technology sector into public education at worldwide scale, and its attempts to profit from the shock of the pandemic.
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While trying to make sense of the crisis caused by COVID-19, two well-worn lines keep coming to mind. The first is attributed to Lenin, who apparently claimed, when describing the Russian Revolution, that ‘there are decades when nothing happens; and there are weeks when decades happens’.
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In particular, the Government has strived to increase Indonesian students’ performance on international student assessment tests to meet that of its neighbours and economic competitors, such as Malaysia and China. Teachers are increasingly being held accountable for poor student performance. A...
Read MoreMeet-The-Teacher Tour The GTU leadership regularly embarks on member-education campaigns, recruitment drives and a Meet-The-Teacher Tour (MTT), to meet with teachers at their workplaces and discuss issues pertaining to their welfare and living conditions. The objectives of the MTT are: To as...
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For many teachers, that initial sense of vocation can become tarnished as they experience the reality of teaching in schools, and within educational systems, that are not necessarily designed or equipped to enable teachers’ professionalism to flourish. In the early 1990s Michael Fullan...
Read MoreTeachers’ trade unionism is crucial More than 90 per cent of teachers in Finland are members of the union, Opetusalan Ammattijärjestö (OAJ). At the same time, Finland is ranked as one of the most successful countries in education achievement levels and with the highest regard for teachers...
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