Articles
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11 October 2025 
Teachers and their unions use innovative and empowering approaches to ensure the right to education for girls in all their diversity
Marking the International Day of the Girl Child
NewsOn the International Day of the Girl Child and every day, educators around the world are fully committed to advancing girls’ rights through education.
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30 June 2025 
In the eye of the storm: Higher education in an age of crises
ResearchThe research examines recent trends in the higher education sector and how they align with the current provisions of the ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Higher-Education Teaching Personnel (1997) and the recommendations of the UN High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession. It also analyses higher education unions' experience with...
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27 March 2025 
Tackling the teacher shortage crisis in the Commonwealth
Worlds of Education44 million teachers are need globally by 2030 – a shortage that affects developing and developed countries alike, as demonstrated across the Commonwealth.
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15 March 2023 
Education and copyright: Perspectives from the classroom
Preliminary findings
ResearchWe know from WIPO’s and our own research that copyright legislation is inadequate for education today. It creates barriers to ensure the right to education as well as curtails teachers’ academic freedom to choose and adapt materials including for cross-border collaboration and exchange.
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16 February 2021 
Fiji: Trade union solidarity as two cyclones hit Pacific island
NewsOn 17 December 2020 in Fiji, a Category 5 severe tropical cyclone, Yasa, hit the island of Vanua Levu, north of the capital city, Suva. It caused hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of damage to infrastructure, buildings, schools, homes, and agricultural areas, according to the Government.
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Cooperation Projects
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2019 - 2022 John Thompson Fellowship training programme (COPE-Pacific)
The JTF is a four year program with a focus on the sub-regional level proposed for the following reasons including, and not limited to: Similarity of the issues being faced by the unions in the sub-region; Sharing good practices and lessons learnt based on the experience in the sub-region; Fostering...
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Affiliates
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Fiji Teachers' Union
FTU
P.O. Box 2203Suvatel: +679 331.40.99tel: +679 331.46.68fax: +679 330.59.62 -
Fijian Teachers' Association
FTA
P.O. Box 14464Suvatel: +679 331.51.80tel: +679 331.50.99fax: +679 330.49.78 -
Association of the University of the South Pacific Staff
AUSPS
P.O. Box U49University of the South PacificLaucala CampusSuvatel: +679 323.21.60fax: +679 323.15.12