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Equity and inclusion 13 August 2024
Education Voices | Laures Park, Laureate of the 2024 Mary Hatwood Futrell Human and Trade Union Rights Award

Laures Park

At Education International’s 10th World Congress, Laures Park was awarded the 2024 Mary Hatwood Futrell Human and Trade Union Rights Award. In this interview, Laures retraces her fight for the rights of Māori people and minority groups in New Zealand.
Education Voices | Laures Park, Laureate of the 2024 Mary Hatwood Futrell Human and Trade Union Rights Award
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 26 January 2024
International Day of Education: Unionists celebrate the right to education by campaigning for quality public education for all

On January 24, the International Day of Education, education unionists from around the world came together to reaffirm their commitment to the universal right to education and to mark the first year of the Education International global campaign Go Public! Fund Education. The campaign is an urgent call for governments...
International Day of Education: Unionists celebrate the right to education by campaigning for quality public education for all
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 16 August 2022
Ending Ability Grouping to empower Māori learners in Aotearoa New Zealand

Liam Rutherford

Variously practiced as ‘ability grouping’, ‘streaming’, ‘attainment grouping’, ‘setting’, ‘banding’ or ‘tracking’, pedagogical practices that group students based on perceived ability or prior achievement are longstanding and widespread world over. Research, however, has long shown that this has negative impacts for students, especially those from lower socio-economic backgrounds, ethnic minorities,...
Ending Ability Grouping to empower Māori learners in Aotearoa New Zealand
Climate action and literacy 2 November 2021
Aotearoa New Zealand, education unions and climate change

Liam Rutherford

Aotearoa New Zealand is in a privileged position, along with a small number of other countries, of being relatively COVID-free. We do face many challenges that the rest of the world often doesn’t hear about – such as serious pollution of our waterways, extreme levels of poverty and inequality, a...
Aotearoa New Zealand, education unions and climate change
Union growth 4 March 2021
New Zealand: Trade union promotes women's leadership in the education sector

Women’s leadership in the education sector was the focus of the Women in Leadership Summit organised in New Zealand by the Post Primary Teachers' Association (PPTA).
New Zealand: Trade union promotes women's leadership in the education sector
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 3 June 2020
New Zealand: Historic pay equity increase for education support personnel

In New Zealand, education unionists have won historic pay equity increases for education support personnel. Over 22,000 school teacher aides have been offered a life-changing pay equity settlement including pay increases of up to 28 per cent.
New Zealand: Historic pay equity increase for education support personnel