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Early Childhood Education 22 November 2022 Global push for quality early childhood education
An active delegation of Education International (EI) and member organisations' representatives participated in the UNESCO World Conference on Early Childhood and Care Education (ECCE), where it underlined the need to “reaffirm the right of every young child to quality care and education from birth” and urged governments to renew their...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 14 October 2022 Public-Private Partnerships at no cost to the State & to Society – Is this possible?
Carolina Finette
In this blog post, I share my personal trajectory as a teacher experiencing Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the Brazil countryside and urge stakeholders to reflect on the problems involving such partnerships to education. In addition, I reflect on how such PPPs are a result of the lack of financing in...
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Future of work in education The Global Report on the Status of Teachers 2021
Greg Thompson
12 October 2021The status of teachers remains a concern in many jurisdictions. Teachers are aware that holding the same qualifications or levels of training as other professions does not bring the same status, despite teaching and facilitating learning being complex work that requires significant expertise.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 27 January 2021 Over 300 ECE Educators Graduate in Tanzania
ECE Educators Graduate in Tanzania
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 11 January 2021 Taiwan: Education union highlights unequal conditions as it campaigns for quality education
The Taiwanese government is widening the social gap and encouraging the privatisation of the early childhood education (ECE) sector. That’s according to the National Teachers’ Association (NTA) in its yearly summary.
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Trade union rights are human rights 14 December 2020 Germany: Early childhood education staffing under enormous stress
Education unions in Germany have asked public authorities to better recognise the role played by early childhood educators during the COVID-19 pandemic. They have asked for increased resources for staffing and funding in the KiTa – early childhood education (ECE) schools.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 November 2020 Taiwan: Union cites dangers of surveillance cameras in ECE facilities
The National Teachers’ Association (NTA) of Taiwan is concerned about the installation of surveillance cameras in early childhood education schools. It argues for more effective action against important preoccupations.
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Equity and inclusion 20 November 2020 Project Committee Meeting reaffirms the importance of Early Childhood Education
Project Committee Meeting reaffirms the importance of Early Childhood Education
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Union renewal and development 10 October 2020 Obituary: Marcus Balslev
Obituary: Marcus Balslev
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 22 September 2020 Canada: The Federation of Childcare Workers of Quebec calls an indefinite general strike
The 10,000 home daycare workers affiliated to the Centrale des syndicats du Québec (CSQ) began an indefinite general strike on 21 September. They have been holding rotating strikes in the regions of Quebec since 1 September and this increases the pressure.
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Standards and working conditions Teacher professional development and curriculum Enhancing teacher professionalism in Africa
Yusuf Sayed & Eva Bulgrin
16 June 2020This report is a comparative study on teacher professional development in relation to curriculum. The review seeks to understand the relationship between teacher professionalism and curriculum in Africa by investigating 10 selected countries covering primary and lower secondary schooling.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 15 May 2020 “Hong Kong and Its Education Under the Threat of Covid-19”, by IP Kin-yuen.
IP Kin-yuen
This is not the first time that Hong Kong faces a coronavirus attack. The bitter experience of SARS in 2003 which cost 299 lives (including eight medical staff) was horrible and unforgettable. That was the reason why HK citizens responded so quickly to the outbreak of a similar coronavirus and...
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Leading the profession Global framework of professional teaching standards
Jointly developed by Education International and UNESCO
4 November 2019The joint Education International/ UNESCO framework on the development of professional teaching standards aims to improve teacher quality, teaching and learning, as well as support the implementation and monitoring of the teacher target in the Education 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and specifically Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4).
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 June 2019 Palestine: development cooperation increases the capacities of early childhood educators’ union and improves their working conditions
The General Union of Workers in Kindergarten and Private Schools is enhancing its capacity to organise and represent early childhood education sector workers thanks to development cooperation with other education unions.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2 April 2019 "Education should not be a waiting room for life", by David Edwards.
David Edwards
“It is often argued that the purpose of early childhood education is to prepare children for school, so that schools, in turn, can prepare children for adulthood and for the work force. This approach reduces childhood to a waiting room.” -- Steffen Handal, President, Education Union of Norway (UEN).
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 26 March 2019 Oslo: Nordic conference puts children at the centre of early childhood education
An international conference entitled, “The Nordic Way –Early Childhood Education & Care”, was organised on 26-27 March, 2019 in Oslo. It was convened by Union of Education Norway (UEN), in partnership with the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research and the Nordic Council of Ministers.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 March 2019 “Finland leads the way”, by David Edwards.
David Edwards
Sometimes it appears that hope is draining from the world and that, for both young and old, pessimism is becoming the default position. The trouble with pessimism is that it is negative. It annuls the ability to act; to create something better which benefits future generations. I believe that education...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 15 March 2019 “Early Childhood Education – the start of lifelong learning – but build upon play and well-being”, by Lasse Bjerg Jørgensen.
Lasse Bjerg Jørgensen
At last Early Childhood Education (ECE) is on the agenda of an International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP). At this year’s Summit, ISTP 2019, the importance of ECE for lifelong learning and well-being is now, for the first time, one of the Summit’s three plenary themes.
“Early Childhood Education – the start of lifelong learning – but build upon play and well-being”, by Lasse Bjerg Jørgensen.