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Standards and working conditions 19 November 2021
In-person schooling during the pandemic: collective bargaining vs. political profiteering

Noemi Esther Tejeda

During 2020, as part of the prevention and isolation measures taken in response to Covid-19, Argentina’s national government passed a decree suspending in-person classes throughout the country. The decision was backed by an institutional framework for social and political support.
In-person schooling during the pandemic: collective bargaining vs. political profiteering
Climate action and literacy 9 November 2021
In France, the role of Sustainable Development Advisor in schools

Émeline is a Life and Earth Sciences teacher and Sustainable Development Advisor. After 10 years in a REP+ (Priority Education Network) in the Créteil academy, Émeline arrived at the François Perron secondary school in Cerilly. It is a rural school, north of Montluçon in the Allier department, with 108 pupils....
In France, the role of Sustainable Development Advisor in schools
Climate action and literacy 3 November 2021
Who’s making the grade on climate change education ambition?

Christina Kwauk

The release of the 6th IPCC report on the physical science of climate change this year raised the alarm around the urgency to act on the climate crisis. Clearly, global leaders did not heed the previous five alarms nor did they listen to recent calls to increase the ambition of...
Who’s making the grade on climate change education ambition?
Climate action and literacy 2 November 2021
Aotearoa New Zealand, education unions and climate change

Liam Rutherford

Aotearoa New Zealand is in a privileged position, along with a small number of other countries, of being relatively COVID-free. We do face many challenges that the rest of the world often doesn’t hear about – such as serious pollution of our waterways, extreme levels of poverty and inequality, a...
Aotearoa New Zealand, education unions and climate change
Climate action and literacy 29 October 2021
Need tools for climate change education? Try the bicycle model 

Dr. Essi Aarnio-Linnanvuori, Dr. Sakari Tolppanen

Climate change is the biggest environmental challenge of our time, which is why it is also a central theme in education. However, in many countries, climate change education is still viewed and implemented from a narrow perspective, the focus being mainly on knowledge development. Though knowledge is important, climate change...
Need tools for climate change education? Try the bicycle model 
Standards and working conditions 29 October 2021
UNICEF’s Innocenti Report on teacher absenteeism in Africa: The wrong approach at the worst time

Dennis Sinyolo

This year, as the education community around the world gathered to mark World Teachers’ Day (5th October) and celebrate teachers for their dedication to duty and contribution to quality education for all, Twitter users were greeted by a message from UNICEF’s Office of Research-Innocenti, sharing their recent report on teacher...
UNICEF’s Innocenti Report on teacher absenteeism in Africa: The wrong approach at the worst time
Democracy 19 October 2021
Samuel Paty, one year later: “The teaching profession: the light that illuminates darkness”

David Edwards

A year ago, French history and geography professor Samuel Paty was decapitated near his school in a suburb of Paris. In response to this horrifying attack, the Education International Executive Board adopted a resolution reaffirming the crucial role of teachers in supporting critical thinking, freedom of speech, science, the truth,...
Samuel Paty, one year later: “The teaching profession: the light that illuminates darkness”
Leading the profession 5 October 2021
Education unions leading in a pandemic: the reality behind the headlines

Howard Stevenson

World Teachers’ Day 2021 is an opportunity to mark the extraordinary achievements of education workers who have worked through the pandemic, and also to acknowledge the difficult work done by teachers that is ongoing as they support young people to face a future that has been reshaped by a global...
Education unions leading in a pandemic: the reality behind the headlines
Leading the profession 4 October 2021
Improving the status of teachers through intelligent professionalism

Greg Thompson

The status of teachers remains a perennial concern for unions and governments. There is a common adage that the quality of an education system cannot exceed the quality of its teachers . It is time to redefine this adage - the quality of an education system cannot exceed the extent...
Improving the status of teachers through intelligent professionalism
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 16 September 2021
Financing quality education for all requires investment and taxes.

Dennis Sinyolo

It is time to talk taxes. If more domestic revenue is not found, the Sustainable Development Goals, especially SDG 4 on quality education, will simply become one more set of international unmet promises.
Financing quality education for all requires investment and taxes.
Leading the profession 6 September 2021
Storm in a Teacup, or a Typhoon Brewing? Rising Barometer on the Market Review of Initial Teacher Education Reform in England.

Susan Robertson

On July 5th 2021, just as English schools, teacher training providers and universities were packing up after a long hard year navigating Covid-19 and series of ill-managed lockdowns by government, the Department for Education’s (DfE) commissioned review on Initial Teacher Training (ITT) was released. Called a Market Review of Initial...
Storm in a Teacup, or a Typhoon Brewing? Rising Barometer on the Market Review of Initial Teacher Education Reform in England.
Leading the profession 27 August 2021
The Right to an Outstanding Teacher

Susan Robertson

You couldn’t make it up. Claim you are concerned about a high-quality teacher training offer for the sector and impose on the sector a one-size-fits-all, highly prescribed, and tightly regulated model. Say you are in consultation mode but do it over the summer when no-one is around, and for good...
The Right to an Outstanding Teacher
Equity and inclusion 19 August 2021
Disability and Teaching In The Time of The Covid Crisis

Julie Ferguson

I’m Julie, a deaf/blind high school teacher in the North of Scotland. Here is my experience balancing 16 months of Covid-19 as a deaf/blind teacher and unionist.
Disability and Teaching In The Time of The Covid Crisis
Fighting the commercialisation of education 5 August 2021
The militarisation of schools in Brazil: a threat to the educational process and to democracy.

Fátima da Silva

The election of Jair Bolsonaro as president of Brazil in 2018, led not only to a process of deregulating the economy, but it also brought with it a new educational agenda for the country. Despite already existing in different ways before his election, the standard bearers of what is known...
The militarisation of schools in Brazil: a threat to the educational process and to democracy.
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 28 July 2021
No emergence of Africa without substantial public funding for education at the national level.

Marième Sakho Dansokho

As with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and regardless of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular, SDG4 aiming to provide everyone with quality education, are not likely to be achieved by 2030.
No emergence of Africa without substantial public funding for education at the national level.
Climate action and literacy 22 July 2021
“Harnessing education’s power for positive climate action”

Rachel Bolstad

I want educators to get excited about climate change. Not because it is a good thing, but because there is so much that we can do to play a constructive, positive role in the solutions for a better future.
“Harnessing education’s power for positive climate action”
Equity and inclusion 16 July 2021
“Poor families and digital technologies. The nuances of digital appropriation.”

During the pandemic, the role of families in children’s education has been emphasised because of school closures and the introduction of distance learning using new technologies. How can digital inclusion in the domestic, at-home sphere be understood in this context? As part of the series of conferences “Digital culture and...
“Poor families and digital technologies. The nuances of digital appropriation.”
Climate action and literacy 7 July 2021
“Education for Sustainable Development on the agenda”

Siri Skjaeveland Lode

I am a member of the Executive Board of Union of Education Norway, and I was so lucky to be part of Norway's delegation to the World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development , organized by UNESCO, from 17 to 19 May 2021. During three whole days, delegates from all...
“Education for Sustainable Development on the agenda”

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