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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 16 February 2017 Tanzania: Competence profile a key step towards quality early childhood education
Together with Education International’s Dennis Sinyolo, Prosper Lubuva, from the Tanzania Teachers’ Unions discusses challenges in early childhood education, and increasing early childhood educators’ professionalism through the development of a competence profile.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 7 February 2017 Australia: calls for guaranteed preschool funding are made as government prepares for cuts
Educators have launched a campaign demanding sustainable funding for preschools, which they see as vital for a child’s development, giving them social and educational skills they need to achieve at school.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 19 January 2017 Early childhood education a key priority for EI and SDGs
Education International’s working group on early childhood education has reiterated the importance of ECE in helping young children reach their full potential and the sector’s contribution to the achievement of sustainable development goals.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Roadmap to financing education
15 November 2016In an era where investment in education is declining and myriad shortcuts are popping up, Education International presents its rights-based Roadmap to sustainable, predictable and principled education financing.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 19 August 2016 West Africa: Education partners commit to improve access to quality early childhood education
The importance of ensuring access for all to quality early childhood education in West and Central African countries was highlighted at a workshop organised by UNESCO BREDA in Dakar, Senegal, from 27-28 July.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 18 August 2016 UK: Early years' education needs highest level of support
In response to the UK government’s proposals outlined in the Early Years National Funding Formula consultation, the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers reiterated that significant investment in early years’ education is essential.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 29 June 2016 Investing in pre-primary education vital for children’s life chances
According to a new scorecard on pre-primary education globally released by charity Theirworld, millions of children will not reach their full potential unless governments urgently increase their commitment to pre-primary education for every child.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 29 April 2016 Made in Taiwan: Decent work for early childhood education personnel a must for classroom quality
Education International has reiterated the need for universal access to quality early childhood education services at an international conference on policy guidelines of the International Labour Organisation.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 November 2015 Sri Lankan teachers work to make children’s education free of corporate influence
Members of the All Ceylon Union of Teachers are preparing to combat the increasing privatisation and de-professionalisation in Sri Lanka’s Early Childhood Education sector, and look at ways of improving access and teachers’ working conditions.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 3 September 2015 Argentina: making quality early childhood education for all a priority
The Confederación de Trabajadores de la Educación de la República Argentina has criticised a bill adopted by the country’s Chamber of Deputies that it says undermines the social right to early education of all children.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 July 2015 Resolution on early childhood education
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 EI Report to the Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendation concerning Teachers | 2015
15 April 2015The Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendation concerning Teachers (CEART) is a joint committee of the ILO and UNESCO composed of 12 Experts. It meets every three years and is charged with monitoring the implementation of the 1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers and the...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 15 April 2015 Germany: ECE teachers strike for equitable wages
Around 250,000 early childhood educators in Germany have been called on by their trade unions to go on a nationwide strike today as negotiations with municipalities on a pay agreement continue.
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Standards and working conditions The Status of Teachers and the Teaching Profession
Vasileios Symeonidis
3 March 2015This report is based on an extensive survey (responses from 73 Education International (EI) member organisations from all regions). It reveals the threats to the status of teachers from misguided “reforms” leading to precarious working conditions for teachers and education workers and curbing teachers' professional development, professional autonomy, social dialogue,...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 24 November 2014 High quality early childhood education on the agenda in Vienna
Around one hundred Early Childhood Education (ECE) specialists from Education International affiliates worldwide are meeting in Vienna, Austria, today and tomorrow to take stock of the current state of ECE around the world, and to discuss the way forward for EI in this field.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Privatisation in early childhood education - An explorative study on impacts and implications
Mathias Urban
16 October 2014This explorative study reveals a global trend towards increasing privatisation in Early Childhood Education (ECE), threatening to overshadow public ECE. Based on a qualitative inquiry targeting ECE practitioners and union representatives in 14 countries, it gathers practice-based evidence of the impact of privatisation in ECE on a variety of aspects...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 29 July 2014 Germany: Early childhood educators deserve better conditions of employment
The work done by educators in day care centres (Kitas) in Germany must receive greater recognition. That’s according to Verband Bildung und Erziehung (VBE), one of EI’s national affiliates, in a statement issued on 25 July.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 1 July 2014 New EURYDICE Report - Key Data on Early Childhood Education and Care in Europe
'Key Data on Early Childhood Education and Care in Europe – 2014 Edition' highlights crucial access and quality issues concerning education and care of the youngest children in 32 European countries (37 education systems).
New EURYDICE Report - Key Data on Early Childhood Education and Care in Europe