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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 14 April 2023 Great steps forward for teaching and research at the World Intellectual Property Organisation
The 43rd meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organisation’s (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) concluded with major wins for the rights of teachers and researchers to adapt and choose materials for quality education and research. Education International participated together with member organisations CONADU (Argentina), AUSPS (Fiji),...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 16 March 2022 World Bank to exit investment in for-profit school chain Bridge International Academies
Education International (EI) welcomes the decision from the World Bank’s private sector arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), to stop investing in the for-profit chain of schools, Bridge International Academies. The IFC had invested more than US$ 10 million in Bridge International Academies operations in Africa and supported the company's...
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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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Democracy 30 April 2021 May Day: Trade unionists fight for democracy around the world
On May Day, Education International recognizes and stands with the trade unionists fighting for democracy around the world.
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Trade union rights are human rights 14 December 2020 Education International calls upon Kenyan authorities to stop its onslaught on the KNUT
Education International calls upon Kenyan authorities to stop its onslaught on the KNUT
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Equity and inclusion 10 December 2020 #16dayscampaign | “When teachers’ unions take action, schools become safer for everyone”, by madeleine kennedy-macfoy (EI) and Rex Fyles (Gender at Work).
Rex Fyles, madeleine kennedy macfoy
Gender-based violence in and around schools poses big challenges to education unions and their members. Because everyone in and around schools – teachers, students, education support personnel - can be both perpetrator and victim of such violence, school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) is a violation of both the right to quality...
#16dayscampaign | “When teachers’ unions take action, schools become safer for everyone”, by madeleine kennedy-macfoy (EI) and Rex Fyles (Gender at Work).
Resources
Access and Use of Teaching and Learning Materials from a Copyright Perspective in Kenya
Education and copyright: Perspectives from the classroom
Education unions take action to end school-related gender-based violence
12 July 2021
Os Sindicatos da Educação tomam medidas para acabar com a violência de género no âmbito escolar
2 August 2021
Trabalhando para acabar com a violência de género no âmbito escolar
Estratégias para acabar com a violência de género no âmbito escolar
Constructing teachers’ professional identities
Organising teaching: Developing the power of the profession
Assessment of the breadth of learning opportunities in public schools in Kenya and Zambia
Bridge vs. Reality: a study of Bridge International Academies’ for-profit schooling in Kenya
Teacher supply, recruitment and retention in six Anglophone Sub-Saharan African countries
Affiliates
Kenya National Union of Teachers
KNUT
Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers
KUPPET
Universities' Academic Staff Union
UASU