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More leave, smaller class sizes: Catholic teachers call for better deal
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Victoria’s 25,000 Catholic school teachers and staff have demanded the right to take protected industrial action in a push for more leave, smaller class sizes and less teaching time.
The union for non-government school teachers says the recent overhaul of governance in Melbourne’s roughly 300 Catholic schools – taking authority away from the local parish priest and into the hands of the archdiocese – gives staff legitimate claims to bargain collectively for better working conditions.
THE STANDARD By
Wilson Sossion |
December 14th 2020 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
President Uhuru Kenyatta and Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga at the launch of the collection of signatures for the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) at KICC in Nairobi on November 25, 2020. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]
Participation in politics is a critical element of socially inclusive development and realisation of human rights.
However, while the right to participate in politics and public life is well-established in human rights law, there is a spirited attempt by Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to deny tutors these rights in a variety of ways.
A recent circular by TSC addressed to various public authorities and whose content specifically targets teachers reveals an attempt by the employer to gag tutors and curtail their democratic freedoms as contained in the Constitution.
Spanish Church fears for its freedom in education
Government insists that law on schools is in need of reform PA
A demonstration against the new education law in Madrid, on 22 November
CHURCH and civil-society organisations in Spain are opposing a new education law, one of several radical initiatives by the Socialist-led government, which will downgrade religious teaching and curb the independence of Christian schools.
The 79-page draft law known as the Celaa Law, after the Education and Professional Training Minister, Isabel Celaa was tabled in June by the ruling Socialist Party and its coalition partner, Unidas Podemos. It was enacted on 19 November by 178 votes to 147 after a heated debate in the Congreso, the lower house of the Cortes, the Spanish parliament, and will be enforced next March if approved by the upper house, the Senado.