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Concern growing over the commercialisation of education in Ghana

Education unions are urging the Ghanaian government to make amendments to its Education Act to ward off threats of commercialisation following a commitment to review the existing regulatory regime of private schools.

The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and education unions, including Education International (EI), its affiliates and partners, are sounding alarm bells amidst growing privatisation and commercialisation of education in Ghana.

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Kenya: latest UN report shares concerns on quality of education and increasing inequality

The low quality of education coupled with a rise in private and informal schools were among the issues flagged in the latest report published by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child.

Education in Kenya is under scrutiny following a new United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) report published at the beginning of February. For Committee Member and Rapporteur for Kenya, Olga Khazova, the growth of unmonitored private education providers is a cause for growing concern as it directly affects the quality of education. Her questions were reflected in the Committee’s “Concluding Observations.”

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US$1.4 billion needed to get every Syrian child back in school, say aid agencies

Only scaled-up donor support can spare a generation the impact of Syrian conflict

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Ghinwa, 7, and her brother Alaa, 11, at Al-Khalidia Al-Khamisa informal settlement in Homs, Syria. January 2016

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Global teacher unions say ‘no’ to Trans-Pacific Partnership

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New professional pathways programme in Chile is education movement’s victory

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Uganda: teachers get ‘teched out’ to improve teaching and learning

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Tanzania makes secondary education free for all

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Tanzania makes secondary education free for all

Marking a major win for public education, the Tanzanian government has implemented a new policy making secondary education free for all, and in doing so removes all required fees to go to school.

The policy follows a decision made in November last year instructing public bodies in the country to make secondary education free for all children.

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Online course on workers’ rights open for students across the globe

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Djibouti: Education International calls for release of teacher unionist and human rights defender

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Omar Ali Ewado, Deputy General Secretary of the Union of Primary School Teachers