This year’s John Thompson Fellowship (JTF) programme for North Asia contributed to direct and valuable exchanges of experience, ideas, and best practices across Education International’s member organisations in the region. It also boosted union renewal and the participation of young unionists.
Teachers at a school in southern Japan are being mocked and condemned after a 14-year-old girl was punished for plucking her eyebrows. The student at a junior high school in the town of Kurume, in Fukuoka Prefecture, was snared when teachers carried out a spot check to determine if pupils were in compliance with the school’s rules on dyed hair.
Despite hopes that school authorities would relax strict rules governing how students may dress and look, experts fear that deeply ingrained, conservative values will take time to overcome.
Collective power and support in achieving universal climate change education were at the heart of the second meeting of Education International’s Climate Network.