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How will we ensure effective and equitable educational recovery from COVID19? Education International and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) developed ten key principles which every country can use.
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Education must be transformed to catalyse the fight against climate change and to support a just transition to a more sustainable world. This Manifesto outlines the profession’s vision for quality climate change education and the policy framework necessary to implement it.
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Update 23 April 2021 | In a resolution adopted at its 57th meeting, held virtually, the Education International Executive Board condemned the coup d’état in Myanmar, the refusal to accept the results of the election, the violence against protesters and strikers and the arrest of elected leaders, trade unionists and others opposing the regime. It called for full respect for human and trade union rights and a return to the path of democracy. It urged the international community and national governments to respond urgentl...
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My friend and colleague and one of the education giants of our time, Mary Hatwood Futrell, wrote this on the passing of Nelson Mandela in 2013: “We pause to mark the distance we’ve come and keep focus on what’s yet to cover. One thing seems certain as the need for equity persists: the push for progress will be equally persistent.”
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In the current political and economic climate, the teaching profession is coming under new and ever-increasing pressures. A recent survey commissioned by one of EI’s affiliates in UK, the National Union of Teachers (NUT), showed teachers’ morale had worsened over the last two years.
Read MoreEI representatives have been interviewed on radio recently, informing and raising awareness among the general public about the impact of the economic crisis on education and on educators’ training and professional development.
Read MoreThe Botswana Teachers’ Union (BTU), one of EI’s national affiliates, is suing the Ministry of Education (MoE) for denying vacations to teachers’ when schools closed on 30 March. Shortly before schools closed, the MoE wrote to public school educators, notifying them to continue “with their normal duties” after pupils had gone on...
Read MoreFour EI affiliates, the Centrale des syndicats du Québec (CSQ), the Fédération nationale des enseignantes et enseignants du Québec (FNEEQ-CSN), the Fédération québecoise des professeures et professeurs d’université (FQPPU), and the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) have lent their support to the strike by studen...
Read MoreTogether with 30 other partners, including the International Council on Education for Teaching, UNESCO and higher education institutions, EI is working to build a global network that brings together education and public policy leaders to develop communication across national boundaries on initiatives to improve teaching quality...
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