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Statement: Teachers and trade unionists in Iran must be immediately and unconditionally released!
Ukraine: Education unions, national and local authorities, and international organisations mobilise to ensure access to education for all refugee students
Afghanistan: As the Taliban regime undermines education, peace and human rights, Education International and its member organisations step up their actions
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News 16 August 2022 Australia: Death of Ted Murphy – an outstanding champion of strong public education system and academic freedom
The global education union community is saddened by the untimely passing on 8 August of Ted Murphy, former National Assistant Secretary of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) in Australia, at the age of 65.
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Opinion 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,...
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News 9 August 2022 Mali: Alarming situation in schools under attack from armed groups
More than 1,800 schools in Mali have closed following attacks or direct threats from armed groups. These groups kidnap teachers, set fire to schools and school materials, and start shooting during lessons. Moustapha Guitteye, General Secretary of the Syndicat National de l’Éducation et la Culture (SNEC), recently went to the...
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Opinion 9 August 2022 Including Indigenous identities and ways of knowing in education and science
Charitie Ropati
Engineers and scientists are vital to meeting Sustainable Development Goals but the ecological knowledge that Indigenous people hold when we care for the land are things that are central to the existence of life.
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News 5 August 2022 Ghana: unions win improved living conditions for public service workers
The Agreement on a cost-of-living allowance (COLA) concluded on 14 July between the Government of Ghana and workers’ unions and associations within the public sector in this country gives all public sector employees increased remuneration.
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Statements 5 August 2022 International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
On the 9th of August, Education International (EI) joins the celebration of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples and reaffirms the human rights of Indigenous Peoples. This year’s theme is The Role of Indigenous Women in the Preservation and Transmission of Traditional Knowledge.
International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples