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   Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 6 May 2020

   “A teacher’s experience having to get to grips with online teaching in the midst of a global pandemic”, by Lisa O’Donoghue.

   Lisa O’Donoghue

   I sighed as I sat down at my kitchen table. To my left, a fresh cup of coffee, to my right stacks of textbooks, in front of me a fully charged Microsoft Surface Pro. Right, let’s do this! My fingers hovered uncertainly over my keyboard as I perused my notes...

   “A teacher’s experience having to get to grips with online teaching in the midst of a global pandemic”, by Lisa O’Donoghue.

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   Union growth 12 March 2020

   Beijing +25: "Making the Promise of Beijing a Reality for Learners and for Education Sector Workers."

   madeleine kennedy macfoy

   Examples of the work done by Education International and its member organisations in different parts of the world since the Beijing Platform for Action was adopted in 1995, demonstrate the power of taking collective action to find collective solutions.

   Beijing +25: "Making the Promise of Beijing a Reality for Learners and for Education Sector Workers."

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   Trade union rights are human rights 4 February 2020

   Ireland: Teachers strike for equal pay

   A strike in secondary schools in Ireland has seen hundreds of establishments closed as teachers all over the country demand an end to pay discrimination.

   Ireland: Teachers strike for equal pay

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   Young members 5 October 2019

   #youngteachers “I owe my union activism to my students”, by Anthony Dowling (TUI, Ireland).

   Anthony Dowling

   If you are passing through Glasnevin Cemetery on the outskirts of Dublin City Centre, you may come across the noticeable yet simple gravestone of James Larkin. Engraved on it is ‘James Larkin 1876-1947, The Labour Leader’. Larkin’s Gravestone may be simple but the legacy he left behind is much more...

   #youngteachers “I owe my union activism to my students”, by Anthony Dowling (TUI, Ireland).

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   Fighting the commercialisation of education 19 June 2018

   “Between hope and despair in the EU copyright reform- What's in it for education?”, by Nikola Wachter

   Nikola Wachter

   I am a teacher by training and I am concerned about the current European Union copyright reform. I am familiar with the day to day practices of preparing lessons, the search for the best picture, text snippet, piece of music or video that will help me to explain a certain...

   “Between hope and despair in the EU copyright reform- What's in it for education?”, by Nikola Wachter

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   Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 May 2018

   Go for it! The Bologna ministerial summit in Paris, by Andreas Keller

   Andreas Keller

   Isn’ it ironic? 50 years ago, in May 1968, students in Paris were going to the barricades and aspiring to a societal revolution – and initiated an overdue reform of higher education almost throughout Europe eventually. Today, in May 2018, ministers in charge of higher education from 48 countries belonging...

   Go for it! The Bologna ministerial summit in Paris, by Andreas Keller