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What is more exciting than helping a child discover the joy of learning and begin a life of exploration. What could be more important to the future than helping to understand and embrace the values that anchor decent, fair and democratic societies and that develop a resistance to hatred, bigotry, and intolerance?
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The refugee Convention of 1951 was born out of the profound feeling of shame following the Second World War due to the failure to respond to and receive those fleeing the Holocaust. That action of inaction condemned many to become its victims. Lest we forget, that Convention and the 1967 Protocol that expanded it, sprouted from and was nourished by that bloody soil.
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Teachers and education in the Philippines are under siege. The Duterte government’s worsening attacks on all forms of dissent, disguised as a ‘whole-of-nation approach’ purportedly to end local communist insurgency, is taking its toll on the sector that is universally mandated to espouse and uphold social justice, human rights and democracy.
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Being elected General Secretary of EI is a great honour. It is a challenge to live up to the confidence that has been given by the representatives of education workers from all regions of the world. It is also comforting to join that small team of talented leaders elected on the first day of our Congress.
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The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) launched its annual Education at a Glance 2013 report today that analyses education systems of 34 OECD member countries, including the 21 EU Member States, as well as Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russia, Saudi Arabia and...
Read MoreInequality, inside and among countries has been growing in recent decades. The IMF (see, “The price of Inequality” ) and the OECD have expressed concern about growing inequality, which they consider to have negative effects on the economy. At the end of 2011, the OECD, in releasing its study, “...
Read MoreBy Antonia Wulff, EI Coordinator: Education and Employment The High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda handed over its report to the UN Secretary General, outlining a vision of a new global framework for poverty eradication and sustainable development, and ma...
Read Moreby Mar Candela, Communications officer, EI Headoffice In the current context of educational reforms - 'top-down' developments imposed with alarming rapidity in many countries worldwide by stakeholders largely ignoring what actually takes place in classrooms - it is surprising to come across a diffe...
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