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UK: Unions welcome dropping of baseline assessment by Government

Major UK education unions have welcomed the announcement by Government that baseline assessments will not now be used for measuring primary school student progress in subsequent years. This follows the publication of a comparative study on baseline assessments used by primary schools.

UK Government has been forced to recognise that the three tests schools were permitted to use do not produce comparable results and, therefore, cannot be used to form valid and reliable baselines of progress. That’s according to Chris Keates, General Secretary the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT), who was reacting to the publication of the Reception Baseline Comparability Study by the Department for Education (DfE) on 7 April.

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Experts warn against wave of for-profit education

Academics and union leaders are looking behind the false claims about the commercialisation of education, revealing its devastating effects on schools, society and democracy.

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Successful implementation of education policy relies on teacher involvement

Educators from over 30 countries have linked the promotion of education as public good to teacher autonomy, political commitment by governments and the recognition of education unions as agents of change.

The EI Conference of affiliates in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries, organised by Education International (EI), brought more than 150 international delegates from OECD member countries for a two-day seminar to Rome, the Italian capital.

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Bahrain: Teacher leader freed after five years in prison

Earlier today, Mahdi Abu Dheeb, leader of the Bahrain Teachers Association, an EI affiliate in the country, was released from prison. He had been held in detention since 2011, when he was sentenced to a prison sentence for the simple fact of calling for a teachers’ strike in support of democratic reforms.

The international community has closely monitored Abu Dheeb’s case, and decried the blatant disregard for human and trade union rights by Bahraini authorities in the case. Education International has worked with a large coalition of affiliates and civil society organisations to ensure his release.