Education International Africa

Articles

1. 10 March 2022

   

   EI Africa Regional Committee meets to review progress and set future priorities

   News

   The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted many EI member organizations, denying girls and boys, children from rural areas, children from underprivileged populations, persons with disabilities, migrants and refugees the right to quality education.

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2. 22 January 2022

   

   Africa: International solidarity allows for educators to teach using storybooks with local values

   News

   Local stories are at the heart of new schoolbooks being published, thanks to funding provided by the Australian Education Union (AEU) to the Pan African Teachers’ Centre (PATC). African education unions will print these storybooks to help students to develop a taste for reading using local stories and contexts. In most cases, teachers wrote or selected stories from local cultures, ensuring greater relevancy at grassroots level. 

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3. 10 December 2021

   

   RESAO members meet to discuss network progress

   News

   In the framework of the Education International (EI) Africa Women Network 2021 activities, the Reseau des Enseignantes Syndicalistes de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (RESAO) organised a 2-day virtual workshop on Gender Training and Advocacy. The workshop took place from 7th to 8th December 2021 on Zoom. The workshop aimed at deepening...

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4. 30 November 2021

   

   Senegal: trade union renewal on the agenda of the SELS national congress

   News

   The 6th Ordinary Congress of the Syndicat des enseignants libres du Sénégal (SELS) held on 18 September in Dakar endorsed the creation of a National Youth Committee (NYC) which should contribute “to the massification of the union” and work “for the emergence of a young leadership within the structure”.

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5. 13 October 2021

   

   EI Joins AAI and PSI to launch Public Vs Austerity Report

   News

   “IMF should listen to facts …they should listen to workers, civil society, students and other victims of their destructive policies”, Advised Dr Dennis Sinyolo recalling the devastating impact of IMF’s Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPS) of the 1980’s and 90’s. This was during the East and Southern Africa segment of the...

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6. 12 October 2021

   

   The public versus austerity: Why public sector wage bill constraints must end

   ActionAid, Education International, Public Services International

   Research

   The world faces a series of interconnecting crises and responding to them will demand a complete disruption of business as usual. In the light of Covid-19, the growing debt crisis, rising inequality, gender injustice, and the climate crisis there is an urgent need to revisit the fundamental redistributive role of...

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