Archive for October, 2009

A Protest Rally against Public Spending Cuts in Riga, Latvia
Education Iternational held a Round Table in Budapest earlier this week at which they called for teaching unions to join together to fight cutbacks in education spending as a result of the economic crisis
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October 29 2009 | General | No Comments »

Rescuers Searching for Survivors in the Rubble of a School in Padang
Shoddy school building is being blamed for the many schoolchildren and teachers killed in the Indonesian earthquake
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October 25 2009 | General | No Comments »

Parents Demonstrating in Lihue, Hawaii
Parents, teachers and pupils protested against the closure of their schools last week as a result of the budget crisis in the US state of Hawaii
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October 25 2009 | General | No Comments »

Roger Abrahim Vallejo - Honduran Teacher killed in August
Teachers in Honduras continue to be in the leadership of the struggle against the illegal military government
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October 22 2009 | General | No Comments »
Costa Rican teachers are going on strike today to demand that their pay is paid regularly and in a transparent manner continue reading »
October 20 2009 | General | No Comments »

Teachers Demonstrate in Victoria earlier this Year
The federal government in Australia is imposing a raft of neo-liberal school reforms without consultation with education unions
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October 20 2009 | General | No Comments »

Palestinian Refugees in 1948
The Israeli government has banned a textbook which presented ‘both sides’ of the Naqba in 1948 when Palestinians were driven from their homes
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October 19 2009 | General | No Comments »

Demonstration in Gafsa
Elementary teachers in Tunisia staged a one day strike last Monday October 5th in solidarity with trade unionists who have been jailed after protests in the Gafsa region of the country
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October 12 2009 | General | No Comments »

Students Protesting in Denmark
There have been massive demonstrations this week of university and school students against the Danish Government’s budget cuts to education
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October 08 2009 | General | No Comments »

Teachers all over the world took part in events to mark World Teachers’ Day on Monday of this week
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October 07 2009 | General | No Comments »
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