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Union renewal and development 30 June 2017 Canada: new guide released to enhance cultural intervention for linguistic minorities
To better prepare teenagers in linguistic minority schools to find their identity and prepare for adult life, the Canadian Teachers’ Federation has produced a reference tool to help educators work with their pupils.
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Equity and inclusion 29 June 2017 German Union Supports Teachers Facing Traumatised Refugee Children and Young People
As part of the response to teaching hundreds of thousands of newly arrived refugee children, the GEW has organised a series of workshops this year to support teachers and other education workers facing children with special psychological needs, such as trauma caused by the experience of war and the long...
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Equity and inclusion 29 June 2017 EIS (UK) supports teachers to deconstruct myths on immigration
Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS), EI affiliate and Scotland’s largest education trade union, has created a series of guides for teachers and lecturers on how to address myths of immigration in the classroom. The union made available three different guides depending on age range to provide support to teachers to...
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Equity and inclusion 29 June 2017 In Vitoria (Spain), FECCOO supports teachers working in a multicultural context
The scope of the project called "My school is an intercultural world map in which we all learn better" is to develop teacher training activities, in order to improve the quality of day-to-day interactions with students from different cultural backgrounds.
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Equity and inclusion 29 June 2017 GEW and partners denounce the state of refugees’ education in Bremen, Germany
In a public event organized on 29 May 2017, the Bremen Education Union (GEW – LV Bremen) and the Bremen Refugee Council (Flüchtlingsrat Bremen) have criticised the lack of school places for hundreds of young refugees in Bremen. Despite the right to an education, and the legal requirement under German...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 29 June 2017 Education International puts teachers’ needs at the centre of sustainable development
With the United Nations striving to increase sustainable development education around the world, Education International President Susan Hopgood called for more “tools, time and trust” to strengthen the teaching profession and deliver on the SDGs.
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Climate action and literacy 29 June 2017 Education leaders send urgent message to the G20
The world's biggest players in education are sending an urgent message to the leaders of the G20, meeting July 7-8 in Hamburg, Germany: a better future for all demands a bold increase in education financing.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 29 June 2017 Ivory Coast: Weary of privatisation, educators launch inquiry
The expansion of private for-profit education in the West African country has caught the attention of education unions, leading to research and demands addressed at the government.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 28 June 2017 UN event on education to put sustainable development into clear focus
Education International takes centre stage in New York as leaders from around the world meet at the UN to make sustainable development education a global priority.
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Equity and inclusion 27 June 2017 German education union directs its efforts and resources to eradicating child labour
The teachers’ union GEW has announced that its German Fair Childhood Foundation has agreed to fund three child labour eradication programmes in Mali, Nicaragua and Tanzania.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 27 June 2017 UN resolution lets governments off the hook
In many ways, the United Nations’ new resolution on the right to education is a positive step forward but unfortunately opts for the development of regulations for private providers instead of urging governments to uphold their responsibilities.
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Standards and working conditions 27 June 2017 Switzerland: low salaries reducing attractiveness of a career in education
The teaching profession in Switzerland is losing its charm in the eyes of many seeking career options, according to research by the Swiss Teachers’ Union.
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Union growth 26 June 2017 Human rights and citizenship education crucial to harmony in democratic societies
Education International’s Deputy General Secretary, Haldis Holst, has strongly reaffirmed the importance of human rights and citizenship education to meet global challenges and achieve mutual respect in democratic societies.
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Standards and working conditions 23 June 2017 Public Services Day: European education unions join the movement for a public service workers’ pay rise
For Public Services Day, Education International’s European region, the European Trade Union Committee for Education, has reasserted that, after nine years of austerity, Europe’s public sector workers, including teachers, deserve a pay rise.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 23 June 2017 Mexico’s teachers’ union takes steps to ‘enrich’ the profession
With an agreement signed with the Organisation of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture, the National Union of Education Workers is seeking to strengthen the teaching profession through new education and research programmes.
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