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CONFINTEA deadline coming up |
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 National education coalitions around the world have been actively engaged in the preparatory process for the UNESCO-led CONFINTEA conference on adult learning and non-formal education. The outcome documents from the regional conferences are now all finalized and the countdown is on to the conference itself. The GCE Secretariat is in dialogue with the conference organizers to ensure that the messages from The Big Read – Global Action Week 2009, are brought to all the participants. GCE members will be out in force to make a big impact.
The deadline for registration for CONFINTEA is 6th March. Please go to http://www.unesco.org/en/confinteavi for more details. |
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FRANCE: Demonstrations against privatisation in education |
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 Thousands of students, parents and teachers took to the streets in France again to protest against the Government’s proposed education reforms. The movement is demanding in particular that the University Reform laws recently voted by Parliament be scrapped. This new legislation is part of a move towards what is called “autonomy” of universities but what teachers, Unions, and students denounce as privatisation reforms which undermine public education and weaken collective rights and teacher status.
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The ‘World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)’ will take place from the 31st March – 2nd April in Bonn, Germany. Five years into the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, the conference aims to highlight the relevance of ESD to all of education; promote international exchanges on ESD, especially between countries of the North and the South; carry out a stock-taking of the implementation of the UN Decade, and develop strategies for the way ahead.
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Equals 23 (the latest newsletter from Gender, Development & Education: Beyond Access) explores the connections and disconnections between the Education For All movement and organisations working on women’s rights. Articles written by education campaigners and women’s rights activists explore some of the reasons behind the lack of collaboration between education and women’s rights campaigners as well as giving examples of projects and campaigns where activists from the two movements are successfully working together.
Download the issue here.
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 This year, the Amazonian city of Belem, Brazil, was host to the World Social Forum. Among the thousands of workshops and seminars (of which 340 were on education issues), several were organized by International and Latin American GCE members. In the first meeting organized by CLADE, representatives from various education CSOs (including CEAL, REPEM, Fe Y Alegria) discussed commonly-used notions and terms in education, such as inclusion, participation, rights, and quality and the dispute of meanings around these terms. Even though most of the participants shared common fundamentals in terms of defining these words, the main issue discussed was the way in which the dominant normative forces manage to capture some of these concepts, rearrange them and impose their own meaning and agenda. Another event organized by CLADE and partner organizations was on the upcoming CONFINTEA VI (International Conference on Adult Education) and the Civil Society International Forum (FISC) which will precede it, with which GCE is engaged and supportive of. FISC and CONFINTEA will take place between the 17th – 22nd May, also in Belem, Brazil.Two further meetings were organised by Brazil’s National Campaign for the Right to Education, one presenting a new book on the financing of education under the Lula Government and the other highlighting the activities proposed for this year’s Global Action Week. The GCE Secretariat took the opportunity to make a presentation on quality, one of our priority issues, and how this notion is undermined by market-driven managerial concepts.
At the closure of the WSF, the Social Movements Assembly read a declaration appealing to global convergence of sectoral organizations to create a unified front against the root causes of the current world crisis. It called for a number of urgent measures including guaranteeing rights to land, territory, work, education and health for all.
“We must work towards a society that meets social needs and respects nature’s rights as well as supporting democratic participation in a context of full political freedom. We must see to it that all international treaties on our indivisible civic, political, economic, social and cultural rights, both individual and collective, are implemented.”
Read the full statement here |
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