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Equity and inclusion 17 May 2022 On Teachers’ Responsibility Towards LGBTQI Students
Jeremy Gobin
IGLYO — The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI) Youth and Student Organisation is the lead youth development and leadership organisation working with LGBTQI young activists, counting more than 100 Member Organisations in over 40 countries in the Council of Europe Region. IGLYO has just released their...
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Standards and working conditions 16 May 2022 Education Support Personnel build and protect universities
Matthew McGowan
The idea of a university is a noble and important one. A place where knowledge can be shared, tested, developed and expanded. Where people can interrogate everything important about who we are, how the world works and how we fit within it. This happens in an environment built on freedom...
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Future of work in education 9 May 2022 Education and Copyright: obstacles to teaching in the digital age
Teresa Nobre
Access to knowledge is an important aspect of the right to education . In order to respond to the needs in the classroom, teachers often complement traditional teaching resources (e.g., textbooks and other curated materials) with a wide spectrum of materials from a variety of sources (e.g., short videos, images,...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 26 April 2022 Enabling the future of youth research through copyright
Sean M. Fiil-Flynn
This year’s World Intellectual Property Day is being dedicated to the theme of youth empowerment . The focus is on recognition of the role of youth “stepping up to innovation challenges, using their energy and ingenuity, their curiosity and creativity to steer a course towards a better future.” Intellectual property...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 23 April 2022 Economically disadvantaged Malawi teachers bear the brunt of IMF wage bill policies
Dr. Limbani Eliya Nsapato
Malawi has a long-term relationship with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which drives the country’s macroeconomic policies, often to the detriment of progress in targeted sectors such as education and health. Malawi became a member of the IMF on 19 July 1965 and has had at least 16 arrangements (loans)...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 22 April 2022 The impact of IMF policies on the public service wage bill in Zambia
Gideon Bulwani
There is sufficient evidence to suggest that the International Monetary Fund austerity measures have the potential to negatively affect Zambian ability to attain SDG 4. It is a paradox that the global system encourages investment in access to quality education for all, while putting obstacles along the path to the...
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Standards and working conditions 20 April 2022 Wage Bill Constraints: Hardship of Teachers in Nepal
Prabin Kumar Acharya
In 2020, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) directed the governments of 15 countries, including Nepal, to reduce their public expenditure. This has greatly impacted teachers after the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 20 April 2022 IMF policies undermine quality education
Dennis Sinyolo
Teacher quality, status, and conditions matter. Quality learning depends on quality teaching, delivered by qualified, well-supported, and motivated teachers.
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Democracy 4 April 2022 The Russian Invasion of Ukraine Shows the Importance of Protecting Democratic Values through Education
Armand Doucet, Michael Soskil, Noah Zeichner
The immediacy of today's vivid news cycle as Russia invades Ukraine has not spared our children. In our youth, caring adults often buffered us from disturbing topics like war, nuclear threats, and human cruelty. Today, our children have no such insulation. They are overwhelmed with horrific images, graphic videos, and...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 28 March 2022 Teachers and students in Lebanon need global solidarity to save their education system and their hope for the future. The world must answer.
David Edwards
The failure of governance and the inability to deal with over-lapping crises has paralysed Lebanon. A whole generation of young people risks losing life opportunities due to the meltdown of the education system.
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Climate action and literacy 21 March 2022 On the road to COP27, the MENA region is far behind on climate change education ambition
Christina Kwauk
Next week, the United Arab Emirates will host the first ever Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Climate Week . Many of the international delegates from last year’s COP26 will kickstart their journey to COP27 (to be held in November 2022 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt) by looking to the MENA...
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Democracy 11 March 2022 War in Europe: Unions must stand together to defend democracy
Fred van Leeuwen
"We know that they lie; They know that they lie; They know that we know that they lie; We know that they know that we know that they lie; And yet they persist lying." Aleksandr Isajevitsj Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)
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Equity and inclusion 7 March 2022 Education – a crucial piece of the climate justice and gender equality puzzle
Susan Hopgood
For decades we have mobilised across the world and have worked towards gender equality, and increasingly over the last few years to address climate injustice. However, both fights have often been waged separately with far too little attention given to the critical areas where they overlap.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 9 February 2022 Privatisation Trends in Education in the Caribbean
Steven J. Courtney, Rinnelle Lee-Piggott
Privatisation has been a focus of education research for many years, particularly in western liberal democracies. However, the phenomenon is relatively under-researched within the Caribbean region. This matters.
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Standards and working conditions 1 February 2022 A simple solution for education
Armand Doucet
We celebrated the International Day of Education on January 24th. In these unprecedented times, beginning year 3 of this pandemic, I am grateful to be a teacher. I am grateful that I have a job that I love and that I make a positive impact on my students’ lives every...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 28 January 2022 Challenging global tech giants: the critical role of Global labour
Carmen Ludwig, Edward Webster
In a recent research paper, Carmen Ludwig and Edward Webster examined the role of global unions to contest the use and abuse of digital technology through transnational activism in two African contexts. Action included work with Education International’s Global Response against the privatisation of education.
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Equity and inclusion 21 December 2021 Expanding Vaccines Beyond Our Borders
Randi Weingarten, Mugwena Maluleke
If there is one thing we never see again, let it be a crematorium waiting list. Let temporary morgue tents be just that—temporary. We have the capacity to make that happen—to prepare for the next global public health crisis, so we never see this level of chaos and destruction again,...
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Equity and inclusion 17 December 2021 UNATU’s experience supporting teachers in refugee areas
Baguma Filbert Bates
Uganda is considered the top refugee-hosting country in Africa and one of the top five hosting countries in the world. Statistics reveal that close to 1.5 million refugees live in Uganda.
UNATU’s experience supporting teachers in refugee areas