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Can profit-making in education be justified? Celebrating the Abidjan Principles Third Anniversary
Eleanor Rosenbach
Monday, 28 February, 2022
The Abidjan Principles are now entering into their fourth year. In a relatively short period, they have achieved widespread recognition across multiple fields, with official recognitions now... Read more
Interview with Mercedes Mayol Lassalle: Care as ethics, care as action, and care as public policy
Eleanor Rosenbach
Monday, 24 January, 2022
Recently, Right to Education Initiative had the honour of interviewing Mercedes Mayol Lassalle, World President of the World Organization for Early Childhood Education (OMEP). In post since 2020,... Read more
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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
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The right to higher education: RTE leading series of events on privatisation and monitoring
11 May 2022
The UNESCO World Higher Education Conference, to be held between May 18-20 in a hybrid format, online and live from Barcelona, provides an opportunity for civil society organisations, academics,... Read more
RTE participated in two CIES 2022 sessions, sharing examples of the implementation of the Abidjan Principles
28 April 2022
This year’s Comparative International Education Society (CIES) conference, held between 18 and 22 April, enjoyed the return of presencial participation after two years of a purely online format. The... Read more
The right to higher education: RTE to lead and participate in multiple events in May
28 April 2022
RTE has been been working on the right to higher education for some years, and we are delighted to announce that we will be participating in three events in and around UNESCO’s World Higher Education... Read more
RTE and OMEP hold webinar on ECCE and privatisation
28 April 2022
On 8 April 2022, RTE and the World Organization for Early Childhood Education (OMEP) organised a seminar entitled ‘Reclaiming a global common good: the right to Early Childhood Care and Education’ as... Read more
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Civil society organisations, academics and human rights experts meet to discuss the right to education and privatisation in Latin America
27 April 2022
On 20 April 2022, a roundtable on the current landscape for the right to education in Latin America brought together civil society representatives from across the continent, in addition to regional... Read more
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