WORLD TEACHERS DAY - 5th OCTOBER
Teachers are the lifeblood of any education system – a school place, books and classrooms are useless without a teacher. On World Teachers Day, 5 th October, If you can Read this, Thank a Teacher.
GCE congratulates member organization, Education International, for all the hard work they have done for teachers and their rights over the years, and for their promotion of World Teachers' Day: www.ei-ie.org/worldteachersday. Many GCE coalitions, comprised of teacher unions and other civil society organisations, will celebrate and draw attention to the vital role that teachers play. We thank all teachers for their hard work in school as for their campaigning work to ensure Education for All.
World Teachers' Day is particularly pertinent in 2006 following an active campaigning year on the theme "Every Child Needs a Teacher". Civil society in over 120 countries have engaged with their governments demanding more is done so that every child has a good teacher in a class no bigger than 40. And as a result of their work there have been successes: Peru and Sudan's education budgets were increased, Kenyan teachers received pay rises and the UK increased aid to education.
Still, if every child is to receive a good quality education, we need 18 million more teachers by 2015. Forty years ago UNESCO/ILO agreed the recommendation of the status of teachers. Yet millions of teachers today are facing low wages, poor living conditions, a lack of respect and classes sizes exceeding 100. GCE continues to support Education International's demand for the realisation of the UNESCO/ILO recommendations, so that everyone can have the quality education promised to them.
To the 29 million teachers in class today – thank you for your dedication, professionalism and support for Education for All.
Teachers are the lifeblood of any education system – a school place, books and classrooms are useless without a teacher. On World Teachers Day, 5 th October, If you can Read this, Thank a Teacher.
GCE congratulates member organization, Education International, for all the hard work they have done for teachers and their rights over the years, and for their promotion of World Teachers' Day: www.ei-ie.org/worldteachersday. Many GCE coalitions, comprised of teacher unions and other civil society organisations, will celebrate and draw attention to the vital role that teachers play. We thank all teachers for their hard work in school as for their campaigning work to ensure Education for All.
World Teachers' Day is particularly pertinent in 2006 following an active campaigning year on the theme "Every Child Needs a Teacher". Civil society in over 120 countries have engaged with their governments demanding more is done so that every child has a good teacher in a class no bigger than 40. And as a result of their work there have been successes: Peru and Sudan's education budgets were increased, Kenyan teachers received pay rises and the UK increased aid to education.
Still, if every child is to receive a good quality education, we need 18 million more teachers by 2015. Forty years ago UNESCO/ILO agreed the recommendation of the status of teachers. Yet millions of teachers today are facing low wages, poor living conditions, a lack of respect and classes sizes exceeding 100. GCE continues to support Education International's demand for the realisation of the UNESCO/ILO recommendations, so that everyone can have the quality education promised to them.
To the 29 million teachers in class today – thank you for your dedication, professionalism and support for Education for All.
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