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Union renewal and development 30 September 2010 Registration opens for EI World Congress
As the countdown begins to Education International’s Sixth World Congress in Cape Town, South Africa, the registration process for the thousands of participants is now live.
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Union renewal and development 21 September 2010 Resources available to celebrate International Day of Peace
The non-profit organisation ‘Peace One Day’ has launched a free global education resource pack with lesson plans to help young people learn about non-violence, conflict resolution and inter-cultural cooperation in schools.
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Union renewal and development 9 September 2010 Latest edition of Worlds of Education now online
The latest issue of EI’s flagship magazine features a series of articles on World Teachers’ Day; the failure of recent G8 and G20 summits on education, and development from the E-9 Ministers’ Education Forum amongst others.
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Union renewal and development 9 September 2010 International Literacy Day: Teachers’ unions mobilise
Unions have marked International Literacy Day with a series of global events. EI participated in the Centre for Universal Education and International Reading Association’s launch of a study into early reading which calls for urgent support of assessments and instruction.
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Union renewal and development 7 September 2010 EI Asia-Pacific Newsletter available for download
The latest issue of EI's Asia-Pacific Newsletter is now available for download on the EI website.
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Union renewal and development 26 July 2010 Archbishop Tutu announces retirement from public life
Archbishop Desmond Tutu is to withdraw from public life, after decades of struggling against apartheid and global injustices, to spend more time with his family – and watch cricket.
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Union renewal and development 6 July 2010 G20/G8 Summit Declarations: Governments agree to disagree
The Trade Union Advisory Committee (TUAC) and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) have drafted a joint evaluation on the G20 Labour and Employment Ministers’ meeting.
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Union renewal and development 2 July 2010 Annual meeting of EI Regional Coordinators with Head Office staff takes place in Brussels
All of the EI regional coordinators were in Brussels this week for the now annual get together with their counterparts in Head Office.
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Union renewal and development 29 June 2010 Iran : European Commission supports trade unionists
Responding to a joint International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)/Education International (EI) letter to Catherine Ashton, the High Representative /Vice President of the European Commission, the European organisation reiterates its support to trade unionists in Iran.
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Union renewal and development 26 June 2010 Union of Palestinian Teachers mourn loss of senior figure
The International Secretary of the General Union of Palestinian Teachers (GUPTs), Hazem Nasri Qumsieh, has died at the age of 55.
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Union renewal and development 25 June 2010 Education for All success at ITUC World Congress
The 2nd ITUC World Congress, taking place in Vancouver from 21–25 June, has closed with a firm resolve to struggle for the attainment of quality public services and education for all, as a key part of the strategy to exit the global economic crisis.
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Union renewal and development 24 June 2010 Strauss-Kahn and Lamy fail to convince International Trade Union Confederation in Vancouver
The face-off needed to stay polite but firm. And it did. On Tuesday, 22 June, Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Pascal Lamy, Managing Directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Trade Organization (WTO) respectively, set out their organizations’ stalls to the 1,400 delegates of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)...
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Union renewal and development 24 June 2010 Call for G20 to promote quality education with qualified teachers
The presidents of Education International and the Canadian Teachers’ Federation (CTF) have called on the G20 to support a new global partnership for teacher education and professional development.
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Union renewal and development 22 June 2010 US unions call on President Obama to defend education funding
The presidents of America’s two largest teaching unions, American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and National Education Association (NEA), have rallied together to call on the US President to advocate for education funding at G8/G20 summits.
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Union renewal and development 21 June 2010 Getting education on the G20 agenda
There was progress in getting key messages on education through to the G20, as a result of Global Union consultations with the Canadian Prime Minister on 18 June, with the participation of EI and its Canadian affiliates.
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Union renewal and development 16 June 2010 Teachers call for improvements in teacher training in Latin America
Meeting in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, the EI Regional Committee for Latin America called on governments in the region to prevent a heavy setback in education quality because of a lack of necessary investments.
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Union renewal and development 16 June 2010 G8/G20 Summits: Unions urge world leaders to learn lessons of the past
Global Unions have released a statement to world leaders attending the G8/G20 Summits that will take place later this month in Canada.
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Union renewal and development 16 June 2010 Pan-European Committee adopts draft By-Laws and calls extra-ordinary Regional Conference
The PES Committee/ETUCE Executive Board met in Brussels on 15th June to consider the latest proposals for draft By-Laws for a new integrated structure for the European region.
Pan-European Committee adopts draft By-Laws and calls extra-ordinary Regional Conference