Articles from Ghana
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 21 March 2018 African educators commit to the 100 Million campaign to ensure education for all children
Africa has taken a significant step towards educational equity with the launch of the 100 Million campaign, a call to action for a world where all young people are free, safe and educated.
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Equity and inclusion 16 October 2017 Africa’s education union leaders go to school to sharpen their understanding of gender issues
The Africa Women in Education Network’s Trainers of Trainers Programme is bringing new skills and tools to education union activists and women mobilisers.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 13 October 2017 Ghana: Introduction of free senior high school education welcomed
Ghanaian trade union leaders have warmly welcomed the decision of Ghana’s president to set up the Free Senior High School Programme.
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Union renewal and development 10 May 2017 Arab countries’ teacher union leaders commit to defend human rights and quality public education
The newly elected leadership of the Committee of Education International's Arab Countries Cross-Regional Structure has vowed to protect human and trade union rights and promote quality public education for all in the region.
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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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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.
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Leading the profession 18 November 2016 ResNet Africa: Collaboration on tools for quality research
Researchers and union leaders at Education International’s Research Network Africa learnt how to use online tools and develop in-depth approaches to qualitative interviews during dynamic and practical skill-focused sessions.
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Leading the profession 17 November 2016 African research leaders ready to influence education policy development and develop quality education
African researchers and union leaders are coming together in Accra, Ghana, to showcase the use by African education unions of compelling evidence-based research to strengthen their advocacy work and shape education policy.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 17 November 2016 IFHERC: Challenges still to be faced in tertiary education and research
Academic freedom, international solidarity, gender, casualisation and privatisation came under the spotlight at Education International’s 10th International Further and Higher Education and Research Conference, attended by leaders of tertiary education and research.
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Equity and inclusion 3 November 2016 West African education unions tackle gender equality and issues
Education union leaders from West Africa have engaged in lively debates on ways to increase and improve women’s empowerment and leadership within trade unions, education and societies in their sub-region.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 June 2016 10th Further and Higher Education and Research Conference, in Accra, Ghana10th Further and Higher Education and Research Conference, in Accra, Ghana
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 10 February 2016 Concern growing over the commercialisation of education in Ghana
Education unions are urging the Ghanaian government to make amendments to its Education Act to ward off threats of commercialisation following a commitment to review the existing regulatory regime of private schools.
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Equity and inclusion 11 June 2015 African education unions mobilise against child labour in agriculture
On the eve of the World Day Against Child Labour, Education International’s African region is rallying member organisations to engage around initiatives to develop their capacities aimed at eradicating child labour.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 19 August 2014 Health crisis forces Higher Ed Conference to relocate
With the Ebola virus spreading sickness and fear throughout Western Africa, the president of Ghana has cancelled all international events, forcing November’s Higher Education and Research Conference to find a new host.
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Trade union rights are human rights 4 June 2014 Ghana: Education unionists’ solidarity with abducted Nigerian school girls
The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), one of EI’s national affiliates, has organised a meeting to demand the release of the kidnapped Nigerian girls and to support the girls’ right to education.
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Standards and working conditions 3 June 2014 Ghana: Teachers mobilise for better conditions
Hundreds of members of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), one of EI’s national affiliates in Ghana, together with the Concerned Teachers Association of Ghana, staged a massive demonstration in Kumasi on 20 May to protest against poor working conditions.
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Union renewal and development 16 April 2014 Education unions urged to keep political parties at a distance in Accra
Education unions should keep a safe distance from political parties was the message Marieme Sakho Dansokho told members of the African regional committee in Accra from 14-16 April. The Secretary General of the Teachers' Union of Senegal (SYPROS) said that some of the difficulties faced by African education unions are...
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Leading the profession 14 January 2014 Africa: Research key to effective advocacy
Developing unions’ capacity to undertake research, and broadening existing research activities, across Africa, was the focus of a recent EI Regional Research Network meeting.
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