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Shakira joins education campaign around Soccer World Cup
The Global Campaign for Education (GCE) has named Grammy Award-winning artist and philanthropist Shakira an ambassador for 1GOAL: Education For All, an international campaign to ensure that all children can exercise their right to an education through achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. As a founding member of the GCE, Education International?s affiliates are raising their voices along with the 1GOAL campaigners.
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Haitian teacher unionists eager to rebuild education sector
Although their schools have collapsed and their homes are destroyed, the leaders of the Conf?d?ration Nationale des Educateurs d?Ha?ti are already working with the Haitian president and education minister on the complex task of starting up classes, getting children back into school, and rebuilding an education system that was struggling to achieve quality long before the earthquake hit.
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EI warns that public spending cuts will slow economic recovery
Speaking at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, EI General Secretary Fred Van Leeuwen warned government representatives and business leaders that public spending cuts will slow down economic recovery and, worse, will be like a slap in the face to the millions of people who have lost their jobs and for whom education and training is their return ticket to the labour market.
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Tanzanian education system affected by massive floods
Flooding in central Tanzanian regions earlier this month prevented schools from opening as usual in mid-January.
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Global Campaign for Education urges improved education funding
The board of the Global Campaign for Education (GCE) met at the head office of Education International in Brussels, 26-27 January.
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Unions commemorate 65th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation
EI member organisations from Germany, Austria, Poland and Israel are coming together in a two-day event to remember the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the World War II Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz.
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