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Standards and working conditions 20 February 2025 Germany: Education unions united to save remedial classes for primary schools
In a controversial move, the North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) state government plans to eliminate remedial classes from the primary school curriculum. This decision has been met with strong opposition from the Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft (GEW) NRW and the Verband Bildung und Erziehung (VBE) NRW, arguing that this “grave mistake” is...
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Democracy 3 February 2025 Germany: Unions denounce extremist political party presence in education trade fair
After learning about the presence of the “Alternative for Germany” (AfD) political party at Germany's largest education fair, didacta, the two largest educational unions in Germany, the Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft (Education and Science Union-GEW) and the Verband Bildung und Erziehung (Association for Education and Training-VBE), expressed their strong disapproval...
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Democracy 27 January 2025 International Holocaust Remembrance Day: "We must take a stand, when the warning bell of history tolls so insistently”
On January 27, 2025, Holocaust Remembrance Day, educators and union leaders from over 20 countries gathered in Krakow to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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Go public! Fund education 2 July 2024 Go Public! G7 milestone achieved by Education International and member solidarity
Education International (EI), alongside member organisations from G7 countries, sent a powerful message about the fundamental role of education unions and social dialogue ahead of the G7 Italy 2024 Ministerial meeting on Education.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 7 July 2023 Inclusive, quality education: the key to ending child labour
From India to Senegal, from Albania to Uganda and Mali, Education International (EI) members raised their voices in support of quality education to commemorate World Day Against Child Labour on June 12th.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2 March 2023 From “private affairs” to a statutory Queer Committee in the union
Bodo Busch
LGBTI rights in the workplace are human rights and therefore a genuine union issue. The conditions and ways to defend them are very different around the globe. For the German Education & Sciences Union (GEW), the path started from grassroots groups after a reform of the penal code in 1972...
From “private affairs” to a statutory Queer Committee in the union
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Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft
GEW
Verband Bildung und Erziehung
VBE