Last year, 1.5 billion students in 188 countries were locked out of their schools as countries dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic. A special survey by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) tracked the responses by 30 education systems across the globe to the biggest educational disruption ever.
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The research on academic freedom covers 175 countries and territories. It is based on assessments from multiple, independent experts from each country. The previous version was from March 2020 and included 144 countries and territories. Reports draw on relevant information and research going back to 1900.
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In the last year, Education International has commissioned and published research on the intersecting worlds of private sector influence on education and the deployment of distance teaching and learning technologies by Ben Williamson and Anna Hogan. They are entitledCommercialisation and privatisation in/of education in the context of COVID-19 andPandemic Privatisation...
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Two cases illustrate these trends: the assassination of João Alberto by Carrefour security agents in Porto Alegre (RS) in November 2020 and the continuing impunity in the case of the death of Marielle Franco in Rio de Janeiro (RJ), which occurred in March 2018. Despite the uprising of black movements,...
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Educators have a crucial role to play when it comes to climate action. What we teach matters. The survival of our students matters. We must inspire students and communities to action.
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In a joint analysis and appeal, theNational Education Association (NEA) and theAmerican Federation of Teachers (AFT) have outlined “the essential elements needed to effectively understand and address the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted students’ academic, social, and developmental experiences”.
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Although the study placed national developments in the context of European education policy trends, similar “reforms” and conflicts can be found in other regions. Regardless of the varying national responses, changes in education take place in the context of a larger ideological shift. Governments increasingly promote the market and its...
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EI affiliates from Malawi, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe joined EIRAF on 31st March in a virtual meeting to consult on the EI Manifesto on quality climate change education for all. The workshop was also an occasion to relaunch and reinvigorate the climate change network in southern Africa.
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EIRAF Launches Climate Change Network in Southern Africa
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Attacks on women and LGBTI rights
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https://www.worldsofeducation.org/en/woe_homepage/woe_detail/17171/%e2%80%9ccovid-story-will-end-with-equity-and-leadership%e2%80%9d-by-david-edwards
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The webinar aimed to inform Education International’s work in this area during the current public health crisis.
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Unprecedented success
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On 22 March, teachers engaged in a three-day general strike to demand a pay increase and better living conditions. This strike was punctuated with massive protests near the Education Ministry headquarters in the capital city, Nouakchott, and in the various provinces.
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Even in the best of times, teachers know more than a little about persistence. But as we mark the anniversary of Covid-19’s grip on the planet, even as we celebrate the unprecedented successes of science, we are only now beginning to understand its limits. When the history of the pandemic...
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The protests are part of an ongoing campaign over recent weeks. The unions have called for strike action days from 23 March until 5 April in solidarity with their colleagues under contractual employment.
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This training began on February 15 and ended on March 13. The closing ceremony in Kinshasa-Gombe was chaired by the Secretary General of the Ministry of Primary, Secondary and Technical Education (EPST), Jean-Marie Mangobe.
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The Fédération nationale des enseignants du Congo/Union Nationale des Travailleurs du Congo (FENECO/UNTC) has closed the end of its online Trade Union Academy on the fundamentals of trade unionism.
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