Archive for January, 2009

French Teachers to Join General Strike

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 Teachers and students demonstrating against cuts last year

French teachers and academic staff are due to strike on Thursday together with all the main unions

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January 27 2009 | General | No Comments »

UK teachers Strike against Privatisation Plans

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 Campaigning Against an Academy in Kent Last Year

Teachers in some schools in London are going on strike next week to oppose plans to turn their schools into ‘academies’.

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January 25 2009 | General | No Comments »

Korean Teachers Sacked for refusing to administer Tests

4 members of the South Korean Teachers Union (KTU) have been sacked for refusing to adminster standardised tests continue reading »

January 23 2009 | General | No Comments »

Kenyan Strike Solid in the Face of Arrests and Police Repression

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 Kenyan Riot Police attacking Demonstrators during last year’s General Election

Reports from Kenya indicate that the strike of the school teachers’ union KNUT is winning 100% backing from its 230,000 members

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January 20 2009 | General | No Comments »

Teachers’ Leaders Arrested in Iran

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Iranian Teachers in an Earlier Protest 

11 members of the central council of the Iranian Teachers Union were arrested in Teheran at the beginning of January

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January 18 2009 | General | No Comments »

Chad Teachers to Strike

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 School in a camp in Chad

Members of SET - the teachers’ trade union of Chad are threatening to go on strike to protest at the cost of living

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January 13 2009 | General | No Comments »

US Academic Faculty Call for End to Israeli Attacks and Siege

A group of academics in US universities is calling for an end to the siege of Gaza and condemning the latest attacks. Below is the text of their petition: continue reading »

January 12 2009 | General | No Comments »

Thousands of Congolese Schools Closed as Fighting Continues

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 Children at a Food Relief Centre in DRC

According to UNICEF estimates some 150,000 children in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are missing school owing to the continuing fighting

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January 11 2009 | General | No Comments »

Leading Israeli Educationalist condemns Gaza Assault

Below is a letter from Nurit Peled-Elhanan - Sakharov prize winner and Israeli education academic to the European Union President continue reading »

January 11 2009 | General | No Comments »

Teachers, Children and Youth in Worldwide Demonstration for Gaza

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 A Poster from Oaxaca calling for a secular democratic Palestine

Teachers, children and youth all over the world are taking part this week in demonstrations and actions in solidarity with the people of Gaza

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January 10 2009 | General | No Comments »

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