Articles from India
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 19 February 2015 India: Winner in Delhi State election commits to the right to education
Education activists working to implement children’s right to education in India have welcomed the parliamentary election landslide victory of the Aam Aadmi Party in the State of Delhi.
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Union renewal and development 2 December 2014 India: a force for public education is remembered in moving ceremony
Those who knew Sh. S. Eswaran, a teachers’ union leader and advocate for children’s rights, paid respects to the man who dedicated most of his life working to empower others through quality, public education.
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Union renewal and development 2 December 2014 India: a force for public education is remembered in moving ceremony
Those who knew Sh. S. Eswaran, a teachers’ union leader and advocate for children’s rights, paid respects to the man who dedicated most of his life working to empower others through quality, public education.
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Union renewal and development 2 December 2014 Creeping privatisation threatens Indian public school system
Faced with the challenge of boosting teachers’ ranks and improving school environments, India looks to curb the explosion of privatised education by once again making quality education synonymous with public education.
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Union renewal and development 20 October 2014 EI remembers Vice President, a leading force for quality education
Education International Vice President, Subramanian Eswaran, who for nearly 60 years led an illustrious career as a teacher, union activist and leader, died this morning at his home in Chennai, India.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 20 September 2014 Educators on the march for Quality Education in New Delhi
12,000 educators from all over India and international guests from the Asia-Pacific region braved the heat in New Delhi, India, this Friday, to march for Quality Education. The rally was one of the worldwide culmination events of Education International's Unite for Quality Education campaign.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 18 September 2014 India: Passionate debates about Quality Education
At a press conference in New Delhi, India, today, leaders of EI affiliates from Asia-Pacific, joined by EI President Susan Hopgood and Indian singer-songwriter Shankar Sahney, debated what Quality Education meant for the region.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 11 September 2014 India: Teachers to be tapped for expert advice on quality education
Looking to teachers’ experiences to address issues in education is an approach seldom used in policy circles, but unions in India are looking to buck the trend in order to achieve quality education.
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Equity and inclusion 3 June 2014 India: Women’s network plan ahead
A South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) women’s network planning meeting was organised recently by the EI Asia-Pacific regional office, together with two affiliates, the All India Federation of Teachers’ Organisation (AIFTO) and Lärarförbundet from Sweden.
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Equity and inclusion 6 February 2014 India: Unions develop Action Plan for gender equity
A South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Women’s Network Planning Meeting has been held in New Delhi, India. Three union leaders from EI affiliate All India Secondary Teachers’ Federation (AISTF) National Office, six AISTF representatives from the Indian Maharashtra State, as well as six AISTF representatives from the Indian...
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Equity and inclusion 29 January 2014 India: Unions develop Action Plan for gender equity
A South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Women’s Network Planning Meeting has been held in New Delhi, India. Three union leaders from EI affiliate All India Secondary Teachers’ Federation (AISTF) National Office, six AISTF representatives from the Indian Maharashtra State, as well as six AISTF representatives from the Indian...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 1 August 2013 Education For All: a teachers’ perspective
Delhi, India, was the location for a meeting to facilitate EI member organisations to evaluate the implementation of the Education For All (EFA) process in their home countries. The aim was to publicise teachers’ perspectives on EFA, after 25 years of global efforts to achieve education ‘for every citizen in...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 16 May 2013 India: unionists hold mass demonstration for quality public education
In early May, the All India Primary Teachers' Federation (AIPTF), one of EI’s national affiliates, organised a picket in front of the Indian parliament in New Delhi to raise awareness amongst the public about the need and importance of quality education for all.
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Equity and inclusion 8 February 2013 India: urgent action on violence against women
Following brutal gang-rape and murder of a female medical student in New Delhi last December, the EI South Asian Women’s Network (SWN) has issued a statement on violence against women in India.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 17 July 2012 India: educators oppose government plans for PPPs and certification
The All India Primary Teachers' Federation (AIPTF), one of EI’s national affiliates, has severely criticised the government’s Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) scheme in education. The AIPTF claims PPPs will commercialise education and undermine efforts to achieve Education For All goals. It has also condemned the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) and...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 3 May 2012 India: disadvantaged children allocated school places
One in four places in private schools in India will be reserved for socially and economically disadvantaged groups. This comes after the Indian Supreme Court endorsed Clause 12 in the Right to Education Act last month.
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Standards and working conditions 28 March 2011 The need to overcome the teacher gap in India
In September 2010, Mireille de Koning, from EI’s Research Unit, set off on a visit to four states in India to undertake research on teacher training for non- and under-qualified (contract) primary teachers. She spent her time meeting with policy makers and teachers about the main challenges to quality teacher...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 12 November 2009 India alters foreign school rules citing WTO compliance
Backtracking on earlier commitments, the government of India announced last month it will not require foreign educational institutions to meet quotas or adhere to caps on tuition fees.
India alters foreign school rules citing WTO compliance