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Climate action and literacy 3 September 2018 Caribbean education unions’ young teacher training for a bright future for teachers and education
Education International has assisted a fruitful workshop for Southern Caribbean’s young teacher unionists to enable sustainable and strong education unions promoting quality education in the region.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 18 July 2018 Students Before Profit: A Response to the Privatisation and Commercialisation of Education in Latin America
If universal, public, free education was one of the greatest achievements of the Welfare State, it is also one of the few public sectors that up until now has continued to resist commercialisation and liberalisation.
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Union growth 14 June 2018 Burkina Faso: Education unions are key to developing quality policies for teachers
Education International has encouraged the fifteen education unions in Burkina Faso to take an active part in a multi-partner project aimed at concertedly developing new policies for teachers.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 15 March 2018 Lebanon: Unions highlight importance of Quality Education for All via development cooperation
Norwegian colleagues have collaborated with Education International’s Lebanese affiliates to build capacity around union strength and Quality Education for All.
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Union renewal and development 12 March 2018 Nicaragua: the fight against child labour strengthens a teachers’ union
By developing "child labour free zones", CGTEN-ANDEN has aroused the enthusiasm of teachers and increased its influence in social dialogue.
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Union renewal and development 6 March 2018 Young Indian education activists’ leadership skills strengthened by international development programme
The John M. Thompson Fellowship programme Asia has equipped Indian education unionists with skills necessary to meet challenges faced by the All India Primary Teachers’ Federation and its state affiliates, and grow as future leaders.
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Union renewal and development 6 March 2018 Japan Teachers' Union reaches out
Getting involved in development cooperation represents a key way for the Japan Teachers' Union to express its core values, as well as gain and retain younger members, vital to union renewal.
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Union renewal and development 6 March 2018 Development cooperation, an ideal tool for union renewal
Education International and its affiliates have committed themselves and worked, through their development cooperation activities, towards ensuring that young and early stage teachers and support personnel are adequately represented and empowered within their unions.
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Union renewal and development 6 March 2018 Supporting south-south cooperation development
South-south solidarity is a cooperation mode that EI has been helping to happen for many years now.
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Future of work in education 6 March 2018 Algerian unions work towards increased gender equality
Algerian education unions are working with Education International to address gender equality issues in their unions as part of a capacity development programme.
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Union growth 26 February 2018 North American and Caribbean education leaders work towards strong leadership in times of crises
As Education International convenes its regional affiliates in Trinidad and Tobago, the challenges they face are as varied as they are common, from strengthening democracy, ensuring quality education to the future of trade unionism.
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Union renewal and development 6 February 2018 #WDR2018 Reality Check #13: “It’s not a learning crisis, it’s an international development crisis! A decolonial critique” by Iveta Silova
Iveta Silova
The 2018 World Development Report (WDR) “Learning to Realize Education’s Promise” has been widely praised for placing education at the forefront of the international development agenda. But while signaling a global commitment to increasing education access and quality in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the 2018 WDR...
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Union growth 16 January 2018 DRC: United action to strengthen education unions
Education unions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have launched a joint programme for study circles in schools aimed at revitalising teacher trade unionism.
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Union renewal and development 7 December 2017 Development cooperation is a matter of equality and solidarity
Education International’s affiliates have been encouraged to reflect on the sustainability and efficiency of their work during the Development Cooperation Network meeting.
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Climate action and literacy 5 December 2017 Strengthening trade unions’ capacity to represent teachers and education personnel worldwide
Education International’s annual Development Cooperation meeting puts the focus on strengthening the capacity to speak with a strong and united voice for educators and education personnel.
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Union renewal and development 24 November 2017 Gender Equality in development co-operation among the General Union of Palestinian Teachers (GUPT), the National Union of Teachers (NUT), and the Union of Education Norway (Utdanningsforbundet, UEN) as of 2017
The NUT and the UEN’s co-operation efforts with the GUPT date back to the early ‘90s.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 13 April 2017 Africa: Unions work towards unity and education priorities
The importance of trade union unity in terms of development cooperation activities in Africa was underlined during a recent meeting between African education unions and their development cooperation partners.
Africa: Unions work towards unity and education priorities