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"All of my income disappeared overnight": economic precarity for students during the pandemic
Inès Girard, Fiona Vanston and Elodie Faïd
Thursday, 29 July, 2021
In our last article, we addressed the impact of Covid-19 on students' mental health. We highlighted how financial struggles increase the risk of mental health issues, and the ways in which the Covid-... Read more
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Mental health: the silent pandemic in higher education
Inès Girard, Fiona Vanston and Elodie Faïd
Friday, 9 July, 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the access to higher education in numerous ways, some of them indirect. Students encounter difficulties such as mental health or precarity issues that result... Read more
Grounded: the impact of Covid-19 on academic exchanges
Inès Girard, Fiona Vanston and Elodie Faïd
Thursday, 1 July, 2021
A major innovation brought about by globalization within higher education is the increase in academic mobility. Every year, millions of students cross borders to access higher education, or to... Read more
Strengthen the legal framework at national and international level for universal access to quality and inclusive ECCE, urge participants at RTE’s CIES Conference panel
Rajakumari Michaelsamy
Wednesday, 30 June, 2021
One out of two children do not receive pre-school education. This situation has worsened due to the mass closure of preschools education due to the COVID 19 pandemic, affecting more than 155 million... Read more
What happens when the ‘best years of your life’ are actually the hardest? The particular challenges faced by first-year university students during the pandemic
Inès Girard, Fiona Vanston and Elodie Faïd
Wednesday, 23 June, 2021
While the Covid-19 pandemic has raised many difficulties for all students in terms of access to higher education online, coping with mental health issues, and escaping economic precarity, those in... Read more
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The Abidjan Principles secure further recognition in the Inter-American Principles on Academic Freedom and University Autonomy
20 January 2022
The Abidjan Principles, a reference text on the right to education adopted in 2019 by a group of leading international experts, have secured a further recognition, bringing their total to 13 by... Read more
RTE co-authors background paper for newest edition of the Global Education Monitoring Report
18 January 2022
A new article, ‘Human rights to evaluate evidence on non-state involvement in education’, was published on 10 December as a background paper to the latest edition of the UNESCO Global Education... Read more
RTE presents its contribution to UNESCO Global Partnership Strategy for Early Education at launch event
11 January 2022
In early December, in the lead up to International Human Rights Day, RTE participated in the launch event organised by UNESCO to celebrate the Global Partnership Strategy for Early Childhood (GPS),... Read more
What’s happening with ECCE in the world? RTE collaborates with OMEP on seminar
29 December 2021
On Friday 26 November 2021, The World Organisation for Early Childhood Education (OMEP),  in association with the Right to Education Initiative and UNESCO, organised a seminar entitled ‘What’s... Read more
RTE participates in UNESCO International Seminar on the Evolving Right to Education
22 December 2021
Over two days in early December, UNESCO held an International Seminar on the Evolving Right to Education to celebrate the organisation’s ongoing work on the futures of education, and to present the... Read more
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