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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 27 October 2017 Higher education teaching personnel to be celebrated in Paris
To mark the 20th anniversary of the UNESCO Recommendation on Higher Education Teaching Personnel, Education International is throwing the spotlight on tenure, academic freedom, self-governance and collegiality, which are being challenged around the world.
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Standards and working conditions Twenty years later: International efforts to protect the rights of higher education teaching personnel remain insufficient
Nelly P. Stromquist
18 October 2017The prevailing discourse on higher education has raised a voice concerning quality, equality, and equity—all centered on students. Surprisingly, such discussions have remained relatively silent on another set of actors crucial to the teaching/learning process: higher education personnel.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 13 October 2017 Ghana: Introduction of free senior high school education welcomed
Ghanaian trade union leaders have warmly welcomed the decision of Ghana’s president to set up the Free Senior High School Programme.
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Union growth 4 October 2017 World Teachers’ Day brings professional freedom and empowerment into focus
As the contributions and significance of teachers are recognised, this year’s focus has turned toward the diminishing freedoms facing the profession and the empowerment needed to allow teachers to work effectively in a challenging world.
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Union renewal and development 2 June 2017 Datafication of education and professional organisation at heart of researchers’ discussions
The role of unions in helping teachers negotiate professional issues and the impact of data on education were standout topics during Education International’s Research Network.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 1 June 2017 UK: Report warns of low levels of protection for academic freedom
The University and College Union has launched a report showing significantly lower levels of protection for academic freedom in the UK, when compared to other EU countries.
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Leading the profession 31 May 2017 Education unions forge a pathway from research to advocacy
With an aim to research, refine, and resist, teachers’ unions are reinforcing their leading role at the cutting edge of research methods and practices at the 13th annual Education International Research Network meeting.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 A joint vision for secondary and higher education for all in Europe
19 May 2017The present joint action programme is proposed by the Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions (OBESSU), the European Students’ Union (ESU), and Education International (EI) to their members and partners, in order to advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 related goals, which the United Nations...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 22 April 2017 Educators globally celebrate science as a pillar of human freedom and prosperity
Education unions across the world are joining the March for Science today, celebrating scientific research, academic freedom, and freedom of thought.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 April 2017 March for Science
Rob Copeland
On April 22 a series of rallies and marches (known as the March for Science) are planned for Washington, D.C. and other cities across the world. Education unions can play a key role in the campaign, particularly in pushing for increased public funding for science, greater protection for academic freedom...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 5 April 2017 Hungary: EI deeply concerned about impact of new legislation on academic freedom
The global educators’ community condemns the adoption of legislative amendments proposed by Hungary’s government, endangering the independence of the Central European University and, consequently, fundamental pillars of all democracy.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 21 March 2017 Quality assurance drive taking place in European higher education
Education unionists across Europe are seeking to promote the implementation of revised European quality assurance standards in higher education.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 3 February 2017 UK: Brexit outs EU academics
Following the Brexit vote, around 31,000 EU academics in UK universities are being told to make arrangements to leave, some having already decided to comply, putting the expertise of UK universities in serious jeopardy.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 17 November 2016 IFHERC: Challenges still to be faced in tertiary education and research
Academic freedom, international solidarity, gender, casualisation and privatisation came under the spotlight at Education International’s 10th International Further and Higher Education and Research Conference, attended by leaders of tertiary education and research.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Roadmap to financing education
15 November 2016In an era where investment in education is declining and myriad shortcuts are popping up, Education International presents its rights-based Roadmap to sustainable, predictable and principled education financing.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 10 November 2016 Further and Higher Education and Research leaders gather for the first time in Africa to elevate sectors’ status
Leaders of tertiary education and research are coming together in Accra, Ghana, to tackle the increasingly changing and challenging conditions facing the further, higher education and research sectors around the world.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 26 September 2016 South Africa: University fee cap welcomed
Education unions are encouraged by the South African government’s announcement that university fee increases may be capped and that low-income families may have the increase subsidised to make education more accessible.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 18 August 2016 UK: Labour pledge return of education maintenance allowance and maintenance grant
Education unions reacted positively to the Labour Party’s announcement on 17 August that it will restore the education maintenance allowance and the maintenance grant if it wins power at the next general election.
UK: Labour pledge return of education maintenance allowance and maintenance grant