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Union renewal and development 14 July 2017 Tunisian and Arab teachers unions have lost an outstanding activist
Education International mourns the death of Taher Dhaker, former General Secretary of the General Union of Basic Education in Tunisia (SGEB), who passed away on Thursday July 13, 2017 after a short illness.
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Union renewal and development 14 July 2017 Zeynep Güneş and Ümit Aktaş: “We learnt of our dismissal in lists published on the Internet”
Zeynep Güneş and Ümit Aktaş arrived in Istanbul this year from Mardin, a town in south-east Turkey. They taught for several years at the primary school there, including during the war and the curfews. Their arrival in Istanbul signalled a new departure, that began with their marriage in Mardin.
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Union renewal and development 14 July 2017 Context: 1540 Egitim-Sen teachers and academics dismissed
Since the attempted coup in Turkey last summer and the introduction of the state of emergency, which has been in force since July 2016, the government has launched a massive witch hunt to ''rid the country” of so-called “terrorists and traitors".
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Union renewal and development 11 July 2017 Mithat Güley: ''I thought about starting a hunger strike''
Mithat Güley taught biology at a high school for 16 years. At the start of the 2016-17 academic year, whilst on his way to school in the small town of Adiyaman, in the south-east of the country, Mithat received a phone call from a friend. He was told his name...
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Union renewal and development 11 July 2017 Ismet Akça: ''I no longer have a passport, I cannot leave the country''
Ismet Akça had been an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Yıldız in Istanbul for 15 years. He has also been a member of the Executive of the university branch of the Eğitim-Sen for many years.
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Union renewal and development 4 July 2017 America’s largest teachers’ union faces down Trump administration over charter schools
The National Education Association will not meet with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos until she answers simple questions about her commitment to accountability and transparency for charter schools and to protecting America’s most vulnerable students.
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