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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 29 May 2015 Iraq: Kurdistan’s teachers renew vow to work with education ministry
The Kurdistan Teachers’ Union has reaffirmed its intension to work with the Iraqi Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research to improve the quality of education, teachers’ status, and working and living conditions.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Creating a supportive working environment in European higher education
Marie Clarke
30 April 2015Creating a supportive working environment in European higher educationCreating a positive working environment is key to the future success of higher education across Europe. Self-direction and autonomy are positive influences in the work context. Those who feel supported at work will enjoy their experience, like their jobs and have high levels of job satisfaction. The capacity to form...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 The Bologna Process under threat
29 April 2015The Bologna Process under threatIn this study, academics across nine countries in Europe identified a number of key issues that impacted upon their working environment. These included the impact of decreased funding; the difficulties experienced in forming supportive relationships; negative experiences of academic life in the initial years; a deterioration in working conditions; the...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 EI Report to the Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendation concerning Teachers | 2015
15 April 2015EI Report to the Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendation concerning Teachers | 2015The Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendation concerning Teachers (CEART) is a joint committee of the ILO and UNESCO composed of 12 Experts. It meets every three years and is charged with monitoring the implementation of the 1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers and the...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 24 March 2015 Spain’s universities go on strike against government reform
Public higher education is shutting down today in Spain, as teachers, support staff and students close ranks against the latest government’s reforms, arguing that they open the path to privatisation and hamper access for all.
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Standards and working conditions The Status of Teachers and the Teaching Profession
Vasileios Symeonidis
3 March 2015The Status of Teachers and the Teaching ProfessionThis report is based on an extensive survey (responses from 73 Education International (EI) member organisations from all regions). It reveals the threats to the status of teachers from misguided “reforms” leading to precarious working conditions for teachers and education workers and curbing teachers' professional development, professional autonomy, social dialogue,...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 23 January 2015 Trade unionists gathered in Vienna to challenge the liberalisation of public services in TTIP and beyond
On 15 and 16 January 2015 ETUCE together with EPSU, AK and ÖGB are organizing a training seminar on how to challenge the liberalisation of public services in TTIP, CETA and TiSA.The event is taking place in the premises of ÖGB in Vienna and has gathered 100 trade union representatives...
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Leading the profession 16 December 2014 Teaching around the worldTeaching around the world
Linda Darling Hammond
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 10 November 2014 Higher Education Conference demands quality and equality in education
Over 80 delegates have convened in Brussels to discuss the state of the art of higher education and research, with a special focus on the effects of privatisation and marketisation.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 21 October 2014 Canadian academics heighten calls for fair employment
The theme of this year’s Fair Employment Week, ‘Fair for All,’ highlights the importance of protecting all academic staff, from professors to librarians and researchers, working at universities across Canada.
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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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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 10 June 2014 9th Education International Higher Education and Research Conference9th Education International Higher Education and Research Conference
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 6 May 2014 Fragmented career paths in higher education: downward spiral for quality of education in Germany and Sweden - GEW and SULF denounce
EI/ETUCE affiliates GEW (German Education and Research Workers’ Union) and SULF (Swedish Association of University Teachers) joined in cooperation to fight for quality education and decent working conditions in higher education at the 5th Follow-up Congress on the Templin Manifesto of GEW held on 2 April 2014 in Berlin, Germany.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 11 March 2014 Higher Education: early stage researchers’ status to be solved
On 6 -7 of March, 38 ETUCE members from 22 different countries, met in the framework of the Higher Education& Research Standing Committee (HERSC) meeting.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 20 January 2014 UK: Union dismisses employers’ hypocrisy over damage to students’ education
The University and College Union (UCU), one of EI’s national affiliates in the UK, has announced plans for a series of two-hour strikes beginning on 23 January aimed at disrupting teaching at universities as part of a row over pay. Education unionists have also condemned that claim by the Universities...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 20 January 2014 UK: Union dismisses employers’ hypocrisy over damage to students’ education
The University and College Union (UCU), one of EI’s national affiliates in the UK, has announced plans for a series of two-hour strikes beginning on 23 January aimed at disrupting teaching at universities as part of a row over pay. Education unionists have also condemned that claim by the Universities...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 6 January 2014 Application for Global Labour University programmes opened
The Global Labour University (GLU) invites trade unionists and labour activists to apply for its Masters in ‘Labour Policies and Globalisation’ course offered by the University of Kassel and the Berlin School of Economics and Law in Germany, and the newly launched GLU Masters in ‘Labour and Global Workers’ Rights’...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 16 December 2013 Call for applications for teaching excellence award
The Central European University (CEU) is calling for applications for its third annual European Award for excellence in teaching in the social sciences and humanities. The award, launched in 2011 to mark the CEU’s 20th anniversary, is the first and only such pan-European honour and is accompanied by a €5,000...
Call for applications for teaching excellence award