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  2. 8 January 2021

    Germany: Trade unions support extension of lockdown

    News

    On 5 January, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the prime ministers of the federal states (Länder) agreed on the lockdown as the Coronavirus rages across the country. On 25 January, this situation will be reviewed before a decision is made on whether to extend the lockdown into February.

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  3. 30 June 2020

    EI/AOb Child Labour Projects | Transnational Best Practices and Union Impacts

    Nora Wintour

    Research

    For the last two decades, EI and its affiliates, Algemene Onderwijsbond (AOb/the Netherlands) and Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft (GEW/Germany), through the Fair Childhood Foundation, have supported projects to reduce school dropout rates and child labour and to contribute to the development of child labour-free zones in over 13 countries on...

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  4. 31 July 2019

    Technical and vocational education and training as a framework for social justice: Analysis and evidence from world case studies

    Gavin Moodie Leesa Wheelahan Eric Lavigne

    Research

    This report observes several limitations of human capital theory, both as a description of the way qualifications are used in the labour market, and in severely limiting the potential roles of technical and vocational education and training (TVET). It proposes as an alternative the human capabilities approach which posits that...

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  5. 28 February 2019

    Constructing teachers’ professional identities

    Philippa Cordingley, Bart Crisp, Paige Johns, Thomas Perry, Carol Campbell, Miranda Bell and Megan Bradbury.

    Philippa Cordingley

    Research

    This study aims at examining how teachers’ professional identities are constructed in seven contrasting education systems. The jurisdictions - Berlin, Chile, Kenya, Ontario, Scotland, Singapore and Sweden - were selected to achieve an economic and geographical balance and a range of contexts in relation to educational performance and teacher supply...

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