News from ETUCE - European Trade Union Committee for Education

Published: 06 March 2020

International Women’s Day: join the ongoing battle for women’s rights and gender equality!

This Sunday 8 March, women around the world will celebrate International Women’s Day 2020. With this year’s theme I am Generation Equality:...

Published: 03 March 2020

Standing Committee for Equality 2020: invest in inclusive and diverse education for the good of society

Equality experts from ETUCE member organisations gathered in Brussels on 27-28 February 2020 for a fruitful meeting of our Standing Committee for...

Published: 27 February 2020

European Sectoral Social Dialogue in Education – Trade unions and employers focus on higher education

Once a year the European Social Partners for Education, the organisations which represent trade unions and employers, dedicate a European Social...

Published: 26 February 2020

Building our future: trade unions explore renewal at YOURTURN! workshop

Our YOUR TURN! project is bringing ETUCE member organisations together to share their experiences and ideas on a vital transnational issue for our...

Published: 07 February 2020

Higher education & research trade unions: Growth of private-public alliances means we must act to protect academic freedom and working conditions

Trade unionists and representatives from 21 European countries gathered in Brussels on 4-5 February 2020 for a meeting of ETUCE’s Higher Education...

Published: 06 February 2020

Embracing diversity in education: new ETUCE project inspires trade unions across Europe to take action for inclusive education

Europe’s learners and education personnel are becoming more diverse. Their different social realities and cultural backgrounds require inclusive,...

Published: 28 January 2020

ETUCE joins OAJ’s Educa Fair for seminar on occupational health and safety

Schools are lively, uplifting and exciting places. However, at the same time, they can be noisy, unpredictable and stressful working environments....

Published: 27 January 2020

Teaching the Holocaust: ETUCE and member organisations join memorial ceremony at Auschwitz and conference on Holocaust education

27 January marks 75 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where more than 1 million Jews and other persecuted...

Published: 20 January 2020

ETUCE launches new Action Plan on Gender Equality

The education sector and teaching profession are still disappointingly unequal on gender issues like pay, career prospects, work-life balance and...

Published: 18 December 2019

Opening-up the European Semester: ETUCE-ETUI seminar helps trade unions develop the tools to engage

Education and its workers are increasingly affected by the European Semester, the EU’s annual policy coordination process. European Commission...

Published: 18 December 2019

International Migrants’ Day - Celebrating migrants and the education staff who help them flourish

18 December is International Migrants Day. This UN-sponsored celebration of the contributions which migrants make to our economies and societies is...

Published: 05 December 2019

“Early childhood education and care is really on the political agenda right now”

Stig Lund from Denmark represents ETUCE in the European Commission’s Working Group on “Early Childhood Education and Care” which has a mandate...