03/08/2024
📣 Closure of the 10th World Congress of Education International Buenos Aires 2024 with over 1,200 unionists from more than 150 countries 🌎
🔔We have just concluded our participation in the Education International World Congress in Buenos Aires, an event rich in discussion, learning and action for the future of global education 📖
📝In a powerful speech EI President Susan Hopgood highlighted the urgent need to fully fund public education and support the teaching profession in the wake of the COVID 19 pandemic.
📜 On the congress agenda were calls to action in favor of:
➡ Quality education for all: Debates on policies and strategies to guarantee inclusive and equitable education.
➡ Against shortages and for the future of the teaching profession: Strengthening teacher training, working conditions and professional recognition.
➡ Rights and democracy: against the backdrop of the current geopolitical context, the teaching unions asserted their strong commitment to human rights, democracy and trade union freedoms.
➡ Union power: Mobilization to strengthen union capacities and their role in educational policies.
📜 Themes:
➡ Just transition and climate education: Unions mobilize to integrate environmental education and ensure a just ecological transition.
➡ Gender equality: Efforts to promote gender equality in education and within unions
➡ Fighting the far right: Initiatives to combat far-right nationalism and protect rights and equality
➡ Global teacher shortage: Urgent calls for government action to address the teacher shortage based on these recommendations: https: //www.ei-ie.org/fr/item/28334:united-nations-secretary-generals-high-level-panel-on-the-teaching-profession-recommendations-and-summary-of-deliberations
📜Some resolutions adopted:
✅Promotion of public education: Commitment to its defense and funding with the "Go Public" "Fund Education" campaign.
✅Support for workers' rights: Protecting and strengthening staff rights.
✅A South African president elected, Mugwena Maluleke, to replace Australian Susan Hopgood at the head of the organization.
Thank you, Gracias, Merci à l'IE et la CTERA pour ce congrès exceptionnel. Let's continue working together for a better and fairer educational future!
Visit: https: //www.ei-ie.org/fr
Unesco Chair Global Health & Education Education International CTERA THPSA 臺灣健康促進學校協會 SETCa-SEL Enseignement Libre UNSA Éducation SE-Unsa Enseignants de l'Unsa Comunicacion CTERA Centrale des syndicats du Québec (CSQ) CTF - FCE Société pédagogique vaudoise - SPV NASUWT Société Pédagogique Genevoise - SPG
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