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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 26 February 2019 France: trade unions strongly oppose increased tuition fees for foreign students
French education unions are taking a stand against the planned increase in tuition fees for non-EU students.
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Union growth 19 February 2019 Felisa Tibbitts appointed UNESCO Chair in Human Rights in Higher Education
Education International congratulates Felisa Tibbitts for her nomination as UNESCO Chair in Human Rights in Higher Education.
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Leading the profession 18 February 2019 Another step on the path towards open access
Education International has answered a call for consultation on open access of research, stressing that the public good is served by the widest and most accessible dissemination of scholarly work and educational material.
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Union growth 26 November 2018 EI’s 11th IFHERC highlights the importance of promoting and protecting academic freedom in an increasingly hostile environment
During discussions at Education International’s 11th International Further and Higher Education and Research Conference, participants from all corners of the world voiced great concern about political developments across the different regions that undermine academic freedom.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 13 November 2018 Elsevier: putting a price on knowledge
In its most recent publication, Education International examines the publishing giant Elsevier, whose success on the market is based on ethically questionable practices which endanger the transmission of knowledge and its condition as a public good.
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Union growth 13 November 2018 “Reclaiming Academic Freedom in Malaysia: The Dawn of A New Era?” by Dr Lai Suat Yan
Dr Lai Suat Yan
There was rapturous joy on 10 May 2018 when it was officially announced that the opposition party, namely, Pakatan Harapan (Alliance of Hope, PH) won. The rule of the former governing political party, Barisan Nasional (National Front), lasting for the last 60 years, had come to an end. It was...
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Leading the profession 12 November 2018 EI 11th Further and Higher Education and Research Conference: Advancing conditions for staff to improve quality education
The first day of the 11th Education International’s Further and Higher Education and Research Conference has provided member organisations with a forum for exchanging information and strategies across regions for the advancement of quality terms and conditions of employment for teachers, academics and researchers, and addressed technical and vocational education...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 November 2018 TVET, capabilities and social justice, by Leesa Wheelahan
Leesa Wheelahan
What is technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and what does it do? This can be a hard question to answer because there isn’t a lot of agreement about what it does, what it should do, who should pay for it, how it should be offered, and whether it...
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Union growth 8 November 2018 Power of Advocacy and Partnership, by Princess R. Moss
Princess R. Moss
As a teacher and education advocate here in the United States, I am in a position to see the inter-connections of all that is good and all that is troubling about our country. I see the hope, happiness, and diversity our children have. I also see the chaos and hate...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Democratising knowledge: a report on the scholarly publisher, Elsevier
Dr. Jonathan Tennant
16 October 2018Elsevier are the largest and most powerful scholarly publisher, a status achieved through a long history of mergers and acquisitions and rigorously capitalistic business practices. The core issues surrounding Elsevier are that it operates its business primarily through charging for what should be public knowledge and education, with aggressive pricing...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 5 October 2018 US educators fight over student debt and loan fraud
American Federation of Teachers’ members have filed a class-action lawsuit against the student loan servicer Navient for misleading borrowers and called for immediate action.
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Union renewal and development 5 October 2018 On World Teachers’ Day, new report highlights urgent need to improve education
A lack of qualified teachers and poor working conditions for teaches worldwide are highlighted in a report released by Education International to mark World Teachers’ Day (5 October).
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Standards and working conditions The global status of teachers and the teaching profession
Nelly P. Stromquist
26 September 2018The Global Status of Teachers and the Teaching Profession is a crucial read, as it describes and quantifies the challenges teachers face worldwide, but also delineates a path towards a more sustainable future. This ground-breaking global report presents the voice of teachers across all levels of education from early childhood,...
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Standards and working conditions 21 September 2018 EI calls on ILO and governments to improve working conditions in tertiary education
The necessity to improve terms and conditions of employment in tertiary education, and in particular, to limit the alarming increase in precarious work in the sector was at the heart of debates at the International Labour Organisation’s Global Dialogue Forum on Employment Terms and Conditions in Tertiary Education.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 6 September 2018 Canada: insecure academic contracts are “major sources of stress”
Most academic staff working on contract at Canadian universities and colleges aren’t employed on fixed-term contracts by choice, and job precarity is a major source of stress for academics, a survey of the Canadian Association of University Teachers shows.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 July 2018 In Latin America, teachers and students champion the right to attend university, by Yamile Socolovsky
Yamile Socolovsky
15 June marked the centenary of the university reform led by the student movement in Córdoba, Argentina. This pioneering reform paved the way for a democratic reconstruction of academic institutions that shook the entire region. The transformation of Latin American public universities became a permanent battleground between those who yearned...
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Equity and inclusion 20 June 2018 On the importance of education for young refugees, by Gloria Ihirwe Ntakirutinka
Gloria Ihirwe Ntakirutinka
On the occasion of World Refugee Day, Gloria Ihirwe Ntakirutinka, a young Rwandan refugee pursuing higher education in Senegal, shares her experience and her fight for access to higher education for refugees.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 14 June 2018 Education issues high on the WIPO agenda
Through statements in plenary, organising a side event, meeting with delegates and collaborating with other civil society actors, Education International has reaffirmed the importance of advancing on international copyright exceptions at the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights of the World Intellectual Property Organisation.
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