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A thousand teachers working in more than 170 early childhood education centres throughout New Zealand took a step towards obtaining pay parity with primary and secondary teachers on 1 July. They belong to EI affiliate, NZEI Te Riu Roa, which last year negotiated a collective employment agreement delivering a four...

Past summits made empty promises. Will this one be different?

The ICFTU [1] Executive Board, meeting in Brussels 21-22 June, took the historic decision to hold a special Congress in 2006 to form a new Global Trade Union Centre. The meeting was chaired by the new ICFTU President, Sharan Burrow, a former Vice-President of EI.

Beside the road from the principal airport of North Ossetia to the capital city of Vladikavkaz is a new cemetery. It has been opened in the past year to accommodate the remains of over 300 victims of the siege in School No.1 in Beslan. It is a remarkable sight. Its...

The Bologna process aims to establish an open area for higher education – comprising 45 countries – by the year 2010 in order to enable greater student mobility and the mutual recognition of qualifications and diplomas. This will obviously have significant implications for teachers and researchers.

The Education For All programme has received a major boost in the Andes region with education unions winning breakthrough commitments from their governments to enter into formal consultation processes on how the programme will operate.

Education is at the heart of a vast worldwide mobilisation to demand action to end poverty.

EI and its affiliates from the higher education sector are partners in the current ministerial conference in Bergen (Norway, 19-20 May) aimed at developing a European Higher Education Area. This participation is an official recognition that academics are the "third pillar" of the Bologna process.

Living in widely differing environments with distinct cultures and languages, Indigenous Peoples, with only a handful of exceptions, are struggling for survival. Their languages, traditions, wisdom and knowledge have disappeared or have been eradicated. Of those that remain, many are, even now, on the very verge of extinction. For EI,...

“The Answers Are Within Us” expressed the theme of the 6th World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education (WIPCE) in August 2002. WIPCE celebrated the achievements of Indigenous peoples in transmitting their heritage from generation to generation and welcomed the sharing of successes in the use and enhancement of Indigenous languages...

According to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's final report, published in Peru in August 2003, the political violence between 1980 and 2000 affected urban and rural areas differently. Rural areas and poorer departments had the most number of victims. Four out of ten casualties lived in Ayacucho, and of these...

Rich country seeks poor teachers

A recent statement by the Kenyan government that many students who graduated from primary school last year will not find places in the country's secondary schools has generated widespread concern.