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  1. 26 February 2024

    United Nations High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession launches landmark recommendations to end the global teacher shortage and strengthen the profession

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    Convened by the United Nations Secretary- General in response to the alarming global teacher shortage, the High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession developed59 recommendations to ensure teachers are valued and respected. The broad and progressive recommendations are the result of sustained union advocacy and a unique opportunity to effect real...

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  2. 26 February 2024

    United Nations High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession launches landmark recommendations to end the global teacher shortage and strengthen the profession

    News

    Convened by the United Nations Secretary- General in response to the alarming global teacher shortage, the High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession developed 59 recommendations to ensure teachers are valued and respected. The broad and progressive recommendations are the result of sustained union advocacy and a unique opportunity to effect...

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  4. 20 February 2024

    Maganga and other TTU leaders released from police custody

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    Japhet Maganga, General Secretary of Tanzania Teachers Union (TTU), and nine of his colleagues who were detained by the police last week have been released. Their release followed mounting pressure from Education International (EI), African EI member organisations and development cooperation partners who sent protest letters to the President of...

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  5. 20 February 2024

    EI Africa demands release of arrested Tanzanian teachers’ union leaders

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    EI Africa has called for the immediate and unconditional release of, Japhet Maganga, the General Secretary of the Tanzania Teachers Union (TTU), and nine other union leaders, who were arrested by the Tanzanian police during a legitimate union National Council meeting held on Friday, February 16, 2024. It has been...

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  6. 17 February 2024

    Accra: Teachers’ Unions to Continue Monitoring Education Reforms

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    Education International Africa (EIA), in its ongoing efforts to assess progress on union engagement with the Government and the Education Workforce Initiative (EWI), arranged a two-day workshop at the Mensvic Hotel in Accra, Ghana, for its member organisations in Sierra Leone and Ghana. The workshop, with the theme, "Educators United...

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  15. 12 January 2024

    Guyana and Canada: Teachers learning from and advocating for each other

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    “I feel strongly that, anytime teachers can join and learn from each other, we become stronger as a union.” That is how Hylin MacLaren, a Canadian primary teacher, summarised her experience participating in workshops in Guyana in the framework of the Canadian Teachers’ Federation (CTF) Project Overseas .

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  17. 17 December 2023

    AWEN Leadership Reviews Progress towards Gender Equality

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    The African Women in Education Network (AWEN) workshop, held under the theme, ‘’Education unions united for gender equality’’, took place from 11th to 14th December 2023, at the Mensvic Grand Hotel, Accra-Ghana. Organised by Education International Africa (EIA), the 4-day workshop aimed to assess the activities implemented by the regional...

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