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Worlds of Education 25 September 2023 Teaching in an age of crises: rediscovering the importance of dignity
Howard Stevenson
In 1968, Martin Luther King addressed striking sanitation workers in Memphis, but his words will resonate with teachers around the world today: “. . . whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth”. Tackling what...
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News 20 September 2023 Nepal: Massive mobilisation of teachers denounce education law which aims to restrict their rights
Education International fully supports the thousands of teachers and members of its affiliates in Nepal demonstrating to demand a respected and valued teaching profession in the face of a new law that seeks to curb their trade union rights.
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News 13 September 2023 Elevating Teachers' Voices to the High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession
Educators from around the world expressed their concerns about the global teacher shortage, sharing firsthand experiences which highlight the detrimental implications for their classrooms and school communities. Their testimonies were part of consultations organised by Education International to bring the voices of educators to the UN High-Level Panel on the...
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News 13 September 2023 Iraq: Arab educators demand increased investment in public education and teachers
A delegation from Education International (EI) travelled to Baghdad, Iraq, where they met with the president and prime minister and along with the Iraqi Teachers’ Union and member organisations in Arab countries launched the EI flagship campaign Go Public! Fund Education .
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News 8 September 2023 India: Unionists march to demand a respected and valued teaching profession
Teachers from the All-India Primary Teachers’ Federation (AIPTF) took to the streets and launched the ‘Bharat Yatra’ campaign on National Teachers’ Day, September 5th, demanding the re-instatement of pension benefits of all teachers and government employees. They will continue their march until October 5th, World Teachers Day.
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News 10 August 2023 UK: Raising the status and living conditions of Education Support Personnel
Education International (EI) welcomes success achieved by the National Education Union, an EI member organisation in the UK, getting increased funding for schools to ensure that the pay awards are adequately funded and prevent the need for staffing cuts.
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News 18 July 2023 Iraq: Respect educators and pay decent pensions!
In the Iraqi region of Kurdistan retired public educators are a forgotten group. The President of the Kurdistan Teachers’ Union (KTU) Abdulwahid Muhammad Haje calls for increased pensions and better living conditions for them.
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News 23 June 2023 Iraq: Kurdish authorities must arrange for speedy payment of all salary arrears
Insisting on the negative impact of the delay in the payment of the salaries of teachers and education support personnel in Kurdistan, the President of the Kurdistan Teachers’ Union (KTU), Abdulwahed Muhammad Haje, has made it clear that arrears in the payment of Kurd educators’ salaries must be considered as...
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News 23 June 2023 Go Public! Finance quality, equitable, and inclusive education in Africa
Top education union leaders from Cameroon, Malawi, Rwanda, and Zambia took stock of gains in their fight against education privatisation through the Education International (EI) Global Response campaign and committed to continue these efforts through EI's Go Public! Fund Education campaign to mobilise to fully fund public education systems and...
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News 20 June 2023 High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession launches to address the global teacher shortage and status of the profession
One of the main outcomes of the United Nations Transforming Education Summit in 2022, the High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession, brings together key stakeholders in the education sector to help tackle the growing teacher shortage around the world. Education International brings the voice of the teaching profession to the...
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News 8 June 2023 Morocco: Trade unions focus on raising the status of teachers and reforming the education system
The SNE-CDT (Syndicat National de l’Enseignement-Confédération Démocratique du Travail) has been negotiating for several years with the government to improve the living and working conditions of Moroccan education staff, and to secure a comprehensive reform of the country’s education system, to put an end to the ongoing inequalities in the...
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News 25 May 2023 France: education unions’ resounding NO to the ‘Teacher Pact’ and the pensions law
Education International is supporting education unions in their joint call for teachers to mobilise in massive numbers to show their opposition to the ‘Schools Pact’ and to demand the repeal of the pensions law in France.
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News 19 May 2023 From Aveiro to the world: “Go Public: Fund Education Support Personnel”
Over 70 participants to the 2nd Education International (EI) Education Support Personnel (ESP) Conference, held from 17th-18th May in Aveiro, Portugal, adopted a strong statement urging governments to increase funding in education systems and to invest in trained and qualified education support personnel that have good working conditions, to ensure...
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Statements 18 May 2023 The Aveiro Statement - Go Public: Fund Education Support Personnel
Education International’s 2nd World ESP Conference: "Building Union Power: Defending the Rights and Status of Education Support Personnel”
Recognising education support personnel’s important contribution to ensuring equitable, inclusive and quality education for all and fostering the development of the whole student;
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Worlds of Education 18 May 2023 Uniting the voices of educators
Efrain Monterroso
Over the past few months, I have been investigating for Education International the strategies and practices of unions to improve the status of education support personnel (ESP) in their respective education systems.
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Statements 16 May 2023 Building Union Power: Defending the Rights and Status of Education Support Personnel
World Education Support Personnel Day – May 16th– is the yearly opportunity to say out loud: ESP are essential to our education community at the local, national, and global level!
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News 12 May 2023 Romania: Public authorities must finance education now!
Around 20,000 education unionists, educators, and concerned citizens protested on May 10th in the Romanian capital city of Bucharest to demand increased investment in education, joining the Education International (EI) “Go Public! Fund Education” campaign.
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Worlds of Education 11 May 2023 The struggle for the rights and dignity of education support personnel in private schools in Nepal
Shyam Chhatkuli
Our union, the Institutional Schools Teachers' Union (ISTU) brings together teachers and education support personnel working in privately funded schools in Nepal. Our mission is to improve the working conditions of our members, ensure their rights are respected, and their important role recognized. Our work is essential, but it is...
The struggle for the rights and dignity of education support personnel in private schools in Nepal