From Aveiro to the world: “Go Public: Fund Education Support Personnel”

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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.
France: education unions’ resounding NO to the ‘Teacher Pact’ and the pensions lawUnhappy with their wages, which they consider humiliating, Romanian educators have mobilised for an indefinite all-out strike to demand better pay for their work and recognition of its social importance.
Romania: educators' wages must be increasedOver 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...
From Aveiro to the world: “Go Public: Fund 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;
The Aveiro Statement - Go Public: Fund Education Support PersonnelOver 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.
Uniting the voices of educatorsClimate justice, climate education, and a just transition to a green economy all featured heavily on the agenda of the 2023 annual Conference of the National Education Union in the United Kingdom.
United Kingdom: National Education Union ramps up mobilisation for climate justice