Articles from Ivory Coast
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Leading the profession 24 March 2023 Côte d'Ivoire: Working together and tracking achievements key to Teacher-led Learning Circles
The Teacher-led Learning Circles for Formative Assessment project aims to provide teachers with tools and support to identify and establish effective teacher-led formative assessment practices that can be disseminated within and across education unions.
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Leading the profession 5 February 2023 Teacher-Led Learning Circles on Formative Assessments: Supporting teachers’ professional development and leadership around the globe
Education International, the global federation of education unions, is launching the Teacher-led Learning Circles on Formative Assessments project with funding from the Jacobs Foundation. The project aims to provide teachers with tools and support to identify and establish effective teacher-led formative assessment practices that can be disseminated within and across...
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Young members 25 August 2022 The winds of trade union change blow across Africa
A webinar organised by Education International’s regional office for Africa (EIRAF) was the opportunity for an enriching and useful exchange of experiences of trade union renewal between member organisations in Cameroon, Mali, Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire.
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Leading the profession 21 October 2020 “Africa: Collaboration between Unions and Governments for a Better Future in Education”, by Cherine Sabry.
Cherine Sabry
Unions and governments have been in conflict since the dawn of time. The mere existence of unions as a force to defend workers’ rights where governments fail to do so in and of itself leads to this conflictual relationship. In Africa, unions have rarely been consulted during the COVID-19 crisis...
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Union renewal and development 14 October 2020 Member organisations celebrate World Teachers’ Day
Member organisations celebrate World Teachers’ Day
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Union renewal and development 7 October 2020 Governments and Teacher Unions renew their working commitment
Governments and Teacher Unions renew their working commitment
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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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Leading the profession 5 September 2019 “Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Cote d’Ivoire: problematic privatization and a framework to be redefined”, by Eric Lavigne.
Eric Lavigne
The Pathways to Education and Work research group from the University of Toronto has published its report entitled “Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Cote d’Ivoire”. The study assesses, negatively, the results of privatization of education on technical and vocational education and training (TVET), calls for more public participation,...
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Leading the profession 24 July 2019 “Productive capabilities develop TVET’s contribution to social justice”, by Gavin Moodie.
Gavin Moodie
Education International’s new report on "Technical and Vocational Education and Training as a Framework for Social Justice" charts a new way for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) to advance social justice.
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Young members 16 April 2019 Young Senegalese and Ivorian teachers come together for quality education and effective trade unions
Young teacher-activists from Senegal and the Ivory Coast came together to exchange ideas and expand their knowledge on a number of issues relating to attaining quality education for all.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 5 April 2019 Côte d’Ivoire government investment in private schools: a bad bet for the future of the young and the country
A study commissioned by Education International and carried out by two prominent researchers shows that the Ivory Coast should redirect its investments in education towards the public sector and put end to privatization.
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Union renewal and development 6 November 2018 Ivory Coast’s Education Minister and advocate for women’s rights welcomes EI Africa Women’s Roundtable
Education International’s (EI) Africa Women’s Roundtable was warmly welcomed by the Honourable Kandia Camara, Côte d’Ivoire’s Minister of National Education and Technical and Vocational Education and Training, as well as a teacher, former unionist and alumni of the earliest iteration of the EI African Women in Education Network.
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Young members 5 November 2018 Young African trade unionists unite to develop ways to strengthen unions
The first Education International regional seminar for young and early stage education unionists has clearly shown the young African education unionists’ commitment to not only increase their involvement in their own unions but also support education policies that promote quality education for all in the region.
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Leading the profession 27 June 2018 EI promotes the ideas of youth to strengthen unions in Senegal and Ivory Coast
The continuation of the program led by Education International in Senegal and Ivory Coast has the aim of spreading unionisation,getting young activists involved in union activity, and strengthening trade union unity.
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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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Fighting the commercialisation of education 29 June 2017 Ivory Coast: Weary of privatisation, educators launch inquiry
The expansion of private for-profit education in the West African country has caught the attention of education unions, leading to research and demands addressed at the government.
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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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Equity and inclusion 18 March 2014 Côte d'Ivoire: Trade unionists highlight gender equality
The Gender Equality Committee of EI affiliate Syndicat national de l’enseignement primaire public de Côte d’Ivoire (SNEPPCI) held an International Women's Day commemoration ceremony on 7 March.
Côte d'Ivoire: Trade unionists highlight gender equality