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Equity and inclusion 7 March 2022 Education – a crucial piece of the climate justice and gender equality puzzle
Susan Hopgood
For decades we have mobilised across the world and have worked towards gender equality, and increasingly over the last few years to address climate injustice. However, both fights have often been waged separately with far too little attention given to the critical areas where they overlap.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 9 February 2022 Privatisation Trends in Education in the Caribbean
Steven J. Courtney, Rinnelle Lee-Piggott
Privatisation has been a focus of education research for many years, particularly in western liberal democracies. However, the phenomenon is relatively under-researched within the Caribbean region. This matters.
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Standards and working conditions 1 February 2022 A simple solution for education
Armand Doucet
We celebrated the International Day of Education on January 24th. In these unprecedented times, beginning year 3 of this pandemic, I am grateful to be a teacher. I am grateful that I have a job that I love and that I make a positive impact on my students’ lives every...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 28 January 2022 Challenging global tech giants: the critical role of Global labour
Carmen Ludwig, Edward Webster
In a recent research paper, Carmen Ludwig and Edward Webster examined the role of global unions to contest the use and abuse of digital technology through transnational activism in two African contexts. Action included work with Education International’s Global Response against the privatisation of education.
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Equity and inclusion 21 December 2021 Expanding Vaccines Beyond Our Borders
Randi Weingarten, Mugwena Maluleke
If there is one thing we never see again, let it be a crematorium waiting list. Let temporary morgue tents be just that—temporary. We have the capacity to make that happen—to prepare for the next global public health crisis, so we never see this level of chaos and destruction again,...
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Equity and inclusion 17 December 2021 UNATU’s experience supporting teachers in refugee areas
Baguma Filbert Bates
Uganda is considered the top refugee-hosting country in Africa and one of the top five hosting countries in the world. Statistics reveal that close to 1.5 million refugees live in Uganda.
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Equity and inclusion 17 December 2021 We only protect ourselves by protecting others
Kevin Courtney
It brings such shame on the UK Government that in November 2021, 27 people including a pregnant woman, drowned in utterly miserable and terrifying circumstances just a few miles from being able to claim asylum. Safe legal routes to claim asylum have been increasingly restricted. Airlines are fined if they...
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Equity and inclusion 3 December 2021 Momentum must be harnessed to tackle scourge of violence against women and girls
Patrick Roach
The Covid-19 pandemic has had profound consequences for teachers and students and for global progress in meeting the goal of quality public education for all. But, together with a health crisis, we continue deal with the pandemic of sexism and misogyny which is blighting the lives, education and life chances...
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Equity and inclusion 30 November 2021 Education unions adapt their approaches to address school-related gender-based violence through the pandemic
Rex Fyles
Over the last six years, Gender at Work (G@W) has been collaborating with Education International (EI) to put education unions at the forefront of global efforts to end gender-based violence in and around schools. When we started, I had no idea what ‘SRGBV’ meant, let alone how to pronounce it....
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Standards and working conditions 19 November 2021 In-person schooling during the pandemic: collective bargaining vs. political profiteering
Noemi Esther Tejeda
During 2020, as part of the prevention and isolation measures taken in response to Covid-19, Argentina’s national government passed a decree suspending in-person classes throughout the country. The decision was backed by an institutional framework for social and political support.
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Climate action and literacy 9 November 2021 In France, the role of Sustainable Development Advisor in schools
Émeline is a Life and Earth Sciences teacher and Sustainable Development Advisor. After 10 years in a REP+ (Priority Education Network) in the Créteil academy, Émeline arrived at the François Perron secondary school in Cerilly. It is a rural school, north of Montluçon in the Allier department, with 108 pupils....
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Climate action and literacy 3 November 2021 Who’s making the grade on climate change education ambition?
Christina Kwauk
The release of the 6th IPCC report on the physical science of climate change this year raised the alarm around the urgency to act on the climate crisis. Clearly, global leaders did not heed the previous five alarms nor did they listen to recent calls to increase the ambition of...
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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...
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Climate action and literacy 29 October 2021 Need tools for climate change education? Try the bicycle model
Dr. Essi Aarnio-Linnanvuori, Dr. Sakari Tolppanen
Climate change is the biggest environmental challenge of our time, which is why it is also a central theme in education. However, in many countries, climate change education is still viewed and implemented from a narrow perspective, the focus being mainly on knowledge development. Though knowledge is important, climate change...
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Standards and working conditions 29 October 2021 UNICEF’s Innocenti Report on teacher absenteeism in Africa: The wrong approach at the worst time
Dennis Sinyolo
This year, as the education community around the world gathered to mark World Teachers’ Day (5th October) and celebrate teachers for their dedication to duty and contribution to quality education for all, Twitter users were greeted by a message from UNICEF’s Office of Research-Innocenti, sharing their recent report on teacher...
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Democracy 19 October 2021 Samuel Paty, one year later: “The teaching profession: the light that illuminates darkness”
David Edwards
A year ago, French history and geography professor Samuel Paty was decapitated near his school in a suburb of Paris. In response to this horrifying attack, the Education International Executive Board adopted a resolution reaffirming the crucial role of teachers in supporting critical thinking, freedom of speech, science, the truth,...
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Leading the profession 5 October 2021 Education unions leading in a pandemic: the reality behind the headlines
Howard Stevenson
World Teachers’ Day 2021 is an opportunity to mark the extraordinary achievements of education workers who have worked through the pandemic, and also to acknowledge the difficult work done by teachers that is ongoing as they support young people to face a future that has been reshaped by a global...
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Leading the profession 4 October 2021 Improving the status of teachers through intelligent professionalism
Greg Thompson
The status of teachers remains a perennial concern for unions and governments. There is a common adage that the quality of an education system cannot exceed the quality of its teachers . It is time to redefine this adage - the quality of an education system cannot exceed the extent...
Improving the status of teachers through intelligent professionalism