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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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Union growth 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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Democracy 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.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 28 June 2016 Quality assurance of higher education well underway
The importance of student centred learning was emphasised by Education International to mark the completion of the first phase of activities of the Enhancing quality through innovative policy and practice project on 9 June.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 June 2016 UK: Trade union action escalates in university pay dispute
The University and College Union in the United Kingdom has decided on a strategy of disruption targeted at open days, graduation days and an assessment boycott to protest short-term contracts and a gender pay gap.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 June 2016 10th Further and Higher Education and Research Conference, in Accra, Ghana10th Further and Higher Education and Research Conference, in Accra, Ghana
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 May 2016 UK university lecturers stage walkout in fight for equal gender pay and fair contracts
Members of the University and College Union have launched a two-day strike across the UK in response to falling salaries and precarious contracts after the employers’ final offer was viewed as “an insult.”
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 23 October 2015 South Africa’s president backs down from raising university tuition
President Jacob Zuma has reversed his decision to raise tuition fees in 2016 amid major student protests that have swept across the country in opposition to a proposed 11.5 percent hike.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 15 October 2015 GEW initiative on the verge of a breakthrough: reform of limited-term employment contracts in academia imminent in Germany
Until January 2016, the German federal government plans to amend the Academic Temporary Contract Law (WissZeitVG), which provides the legal basis for the use of temporary fixed-term contracts.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 July 2015 Resolution on public research and scientific and academic freedoms