Articles from Cameroon
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Trade union rights are human rights 23 April 2020 Gabon: teachers support governmental initiative for education to continue through distance learning
Although they believe the XGEST platform distance learning initiative launched by the Ministry of Education is worth trying out during the COVID-19 initiative, teachers, through their representative organisation, the Syndicat de l'Éducation Nationale say that they have strong reservations as to whether all students can access it. They therefore insist...
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Trade union rights are human rights 7 February 2020 Cameroon: Unions denounce ongoing violence in schools
Teachers’ representative organisations in Cameroon are united in demanding security in schools in a country “badly shaken by an unprecedented and wave of intolerable violence” at the beginning of the year.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 17 October 2019 “Higher ambitions for education and copyright in Africa and the world”, by Mugwena Maluleke.
Mugwena Maluleke
African nations actively participated in the development of the Sustainable Development Agenda that acknowledged the centrality of education in the achievement of all other plans for a better world. Like other nations of the world, they committed to the provision of a single, renewed education agenda that is holistic, ambitious...
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Union growth 1 May 2017 This May Day, why not try solidarity?
As the occasion to celebrate and reaffirm the value and values of trade unions, from which their principles continue to inspire, today must also serve as a lens to carefully examine our societies and institutions.
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Standards and working conditions 2 December 2016 Cameroon: Teachers press government to take action for improved status
Teacher unions in Cameroon have unitarily called on primary and secondary teachers to strike in December to force the government to respect commitments on improved teachers’ working and living conditions and fixed status.
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Equity and inclusion 24 August 2015 Cameroon: trade union workshop addresses women’s rights
A seminar on women's rights in Bafoussam, Cameroon, organised by the Swedish union Lärarförbundet and Cameroon’s education unions affiliated with Education International, was undertaken to help participants better understand and tackle the issues.
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Standards and working conditions 3 October 2014 Cameroon: Demand for more public investment in education
Global market dynamics have not benefited education. That’s according to Roger Kaffo Fokou, Deputy General Secretary of the Fédération des syndicats de l’enseignement et de la recherche(FESER), one of Education International’s (EI) affiliates in Cameroon, in a statement to mark World Teachers’ Day on 5 October.
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Union growth 29 July 2014 Cameroon: Trade union rights being attacked
Cameroon's teacher unions have condemned sanctions imposed by public authorities in Cameroon which threaten the exercise of their trade union rights by workers.
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Standards and working conditions 12 March 2014 Cameroon: Unions still waiting for improvements in working conditions
EI’s national affiliates in Cameroon, the Fédération camerounaise des syndicats de l’Education(FECASE), the Fédération des syndicats de l’Enseignement et de la Recherche(FESER) and the Syndicat des travailleurs des établissements scolaires privés du Cameroun(SYNTESPRIC), have called on teachers to take action to improve their status and working conditions.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 7 November 2013 Cameroon: investing in education and teachers
The National Autonomous Union of Secondary School Teachers (SNAES), a member of the Federation of Education and Research Unions (FESER) affiliated to EI, called attention to the need for quality teachers.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 23 July 2013 Cameroon: teacher union involved in quality education initiative
The Fédération des syndicats de l’enseignement et de la recherche(FESER) one of EI’s national affiliates, participated in the 4th Aflatoun – a network of organisations interested in education –“Building Blocks for Life” International Meeting, which took place from 1 to 3 July 2013 in Nairobi, Kenya. Hosted and organised in...
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Union growth 16 February 2012 Cameroon: Strike action to protest at broken government promises
One of EI’s national affiliates, the Fédération Camerounaise des Syndicats de l'Education(FECASE), has joined other education unions supported by the Public Sector Union Confederation (CSP) calling for a strike in the basic and secondary education sectors on 14-17 February. Trade Unionists condemn the government’s attitude, saying it is not adhering...
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Standards and working conditions 12 October 2007 Cameroon: SYNTESPRIC members demonstrated for better job security
On 5 October, World Teachers' Day, members of the Syndicat des Travailleurs des Etablissements scolaires privés du Cameroun (SYNTESPRIC) held a demonstration to demand the government ratify their collective agreement.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 27 February 2006 Cameroon: schools without teachers, teachers without schools
Public schools in Cameroon lack teachers while at the same time thousands of qualified teachers are unemployed. This is a regrettable squandering of human resources, all the more so considering that qualified teachers are hard to come by in many other African countries.
Cameroon: schools without teachers, teachers without schools