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Ongoing political conflict has delayed the start of the new school year, keeping students from class while preventing unions from pressing for a better status for teachers and quality education for all children.

With a young democracy as its backdrop, the Myanmar Teachers Federation continues to build its ranks across the country with the help of Education International and its affiliates’ experience one year after its creation.

The Minister of Higher Education and Training, Blade Nzimande, said that universities can increase fees by up to eight percent only. In addition, families with household incomes of less than ZAR600,000 (€39,000) can apply to have the increase subsidised.

Together, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the Confederation of Education Workers of the Argentine Republic, Brazil’s National Confederation of Education Workers, Unión Nacional de Educadores, Colegio de Profesores de Chile, and the Colombian Federation of Education Workers are demanding answers to the yet unsolved violent “events in and around the Ayotzinapa teachers’ college in September 2014.” The complaint lays blame directly on local police and organised crime for carrying out the violations. 

At the UK Trades Union Congress’ Congress in Brighton on 14 September, the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) President, Kathy Wallis, urged the Government to play its full part in ensuring all refugee and displaced children are able to access education and are protected from abuse and violence. She made the call while moving a motion on the impact of the refugee crisis on children.

EI African Regional Committee

OECD countries must step up their efforts to improve the quality and equity of their education systems as part of their commitments to meet the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) for education by 2030, according to a new OECD report.

UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake meets with EU Commisioner Johannes Hahn at UNICEF House, 19 September 2016