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Covid-19 and technical difficulties: the rise of inequalities in higher education
Inès Girard, Fiona Vanston and Elodie Faïd
Tuesday, 15 June, 2021
Access to a reliable internet connection has become increasingly important over the last year, as much of day to day life switched from in person to online as the pandemic raged through the world.... Read more
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University students in the time of Covid-19: the sacrificed generation?
Inès Girard, Fiona Vanston and Elodie Faïd
Wednesday, 9 June, 2021
The Covid 19 crisis has challenged all aspects of daily life. Ensuring the fundamental missions of higher education systems can continue is part of these challenges. The lives of students have... Read more
Segregation, private school bubbles and dwindling financial support for state schooling: privatisation in the Arabic region
Eleanor Rosenbach and Hoda Awwad
Wednesday, 2 June, 2021
On Wednesday 28 April, RTE co-hosted a webinar in Arabic with the Arab Campaign for Education for All, as part of the wider programme of events in this year’s Global Action Week for Education. Hosted... Read more
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Using the Abidjan Principles to inform local and national education plans in Nepal
Ram Gaire
Thursday, 25 March, 2021
The National Campaign for Education Nepal (NCE), a national education coalition of 409 civil society organizations, has been working at the national and grassroots level on the implementation of the... Read more
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International Women’s Day 2021: We #ChoosetoChallenge states on the right to education of girls and women
Eleanor Rosenbach
Monday, 8 March, 2021
The theme for this year’s International Women’s Day is ‘Choose to Challenge’. The Right to Education Initiative is proud to support International Women’s Day - and we wish to mark it this year with a... Read more
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Book Launch | Realizing the Abidjan Principles on the Right to Education: Human Rights, Public Education, and the Role of Private Actors in Education
9 June 2021
On 15 June 2021, Right to Education Initiative, GI-ESCR, NORRAG, and California State University (CSU) are co-organising an online event to celebrate the launch of the book: Realizing the Abidjan... Read more
European Committee of Social Rights releases new statement on Covid-19 and social rights - including right to education
2 June 2021
On April 22, the European Committee of Social Rights issued a statement on COVID-19 and social rights which highlights the rights of the European Social Charter that are particularly affected by the... Read more
From PPPs to APs to ECCE - RTE participated in three events at this year's CIES
14 May 2021
This year’s Comparative and International Education Society Conference - conducted entirely online given the current global epidemiological situation - saw RTE participate in three events.Our... Read more
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Global Action Week for Education 2021: RTE takes part in events on privatization in education in Latin America and the Arab region
14 May 2021
Demonstrating our commitment to building bridges between different language communities, RTE participated in two multilingual events in this year’s Global Action Week for Education (GAWE).On... Read more
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Right to Education Initiative co-sponsors Scholars At Risk event on Academic Freedoms
28 April 2021
On April 15, Scholars at Risk held the webinar: ‘Free Universities: Putting the Academic Freedom Index Into Action Through the UN Human Rights system’.This high-level event presented the 2020... Read more
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