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Standards and working conditions 8 January 2018 Australia: Attack on working conditions linked to teachers’ stress
Australian educators have protested against deteriorating work conditions in the technical and further education sector in Victoria, a direct threat to quality education.
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Standards and working conditions 5 January 2018 Partnership needed to increase value accorded to education
Education in Scotland is undervalued, according to a recent study undertaken for Education International, which also stresses that public authorities and education policy makers must work with teachers and their unions on professional and national identity.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 19 December 2017 #WDR2018 Reality Check #8: "Unions do contribute to quality education. An example from the Gambia", by Marie Antoinette Corr
Marie Antoinette Corr
The World Development Report 2018 recognises, although briefly, that poor working conditions for teachers can undermine learning (p.138). It argues that the status of the teaching profession has declined over the last few decades, and that as a result, “teachers deserve more from the systems that employ them” (p.138).
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Union renewal and development 14 December 2017 Arab education unions focus on union renewal and quality education
Teacher union leaders in Arab-speaking countries have discussed ways to better engage with young and new teachers and steps necessary to achieve access to quality education for all by 2030 in their region.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 December 2017 The Netherlands: Strike action to protect quality primary education
Dutch educators are on strike today (12 December), demanding decent salaries and a normal workload. They are also urging the government to clearly and firmly address burn out and a shortage in teachers in primary education.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 11 December 2017 UK: Workload driving teachers out of profession – union survey
Workload is the biggest barrier to young teachers making the profession their career, UK young teachers have highlighted.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 7 December 2017 Is teaching still a profession where you are?
Maurie Mulheron, Tom Alegounarias
The de-regulation drums are beating. Most of us can hear them, even if for some of us, the luckier ones, the beat is still dull and distant.
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Standards and working conditions 27 November 2017 Mauritania: teacher unions united in call to save the national education system
Faced with the chronic shortage of teachers in the country, the use of contract teachers and an increasing privatisation in education, the trade unions have called on public authorities to urgently remedy the situation and parents to mobilise to save the national education system.
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Standards and working conditions 24 November 2017 Togo: education trade unions join forces to improve teachers' living and working conditions
Public sector primary and secondary education teachers embarked on a three-day strike to obtain better living and working conditions from the Togolese government.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 21 November 2017 #WDR2018 Reality Check #4: Realizing education’s promise: teachers are the solution, not the problem.
Howard Stevenson
The World Bank’s 2018 world development report, with its focus on education and the need ‘to realize education’s promise’, is a welcome, if perhaps surprising, step forward. The report scores highly on intent, but it must work with teachers, not against them, if the report’s ambitions are to become a...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 14 November 2017 Belgium: Unions shed light on increasingly difficult job of being a teacher
Teaching is a ‘difficult’ job, according to a thousand educators at one of the largest teacher gatherings ever organised in Belgium.
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Standards and working conditions 9 November 2017 The future of education unionism
John McCollow
Teacher (or education) unions are organizations formed to protect and advance the collective interests of teachers and other education workers. What those collective interests entail and how they should be pursued have been and remain active matters for debate.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 7 November 2017 #WDR2018 Reality Check #2: Teacher working conditions are student learning conditions: Lost opportunities in World Bank education report
Leo Baunach
The dedicated reader of the 2018 World Development Report (WDR) on learning and education will find moments of nuanced discussion. Unfortunately, these gems are brief caveats to flawed headlines and conclusions. The World Bank report valorizes professional teaching while degrading the voices and needs of teachers.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 5 November 2017 Academic freedom and the 1997 UNESCO Recommendation: a view from Europe
Rob Copeland
For unions in the higher education and research sector, this year’s World Teachers’ Day takes on the greatest significance.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 5 November 2017 Five ways to empower teachers and drive learning progress
Fred van Leeuwen
On World Teachers’ Day, let’s have a look at what teachers need to be more effective in the classroom
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 31 October 2017 #WDR2018 Reality Check #0: Education experts and activists respond to the World Development Report
Jennifer Ulrick
Does the report live up to its promise or leave much to be desired? In a new EI blog series, education experts and activists unpack, critique and challenge the insights of the WDR.
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Climate action and literacy 30 October 2017 Francophone education unions assemble to improve the teaching profession
After meeting in Dakar, the Board of the Comité Syndical Francophone pour l’Education et la Formation committed to promoting quality public education accessible to all, as well as increase vibrant and respected teacher trade unionism.
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Standards and working conditions 25 October 2017 UK: Flexible working needed to solve recruitment and retention crisis
Better part-time and flexible working opportunities can help solve the teacher recruitment and retention crisis in the UK, say education unions in response to the latest National Foundation for Educational Research’s report.
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