Right here is the reason;
We, the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot Lecturers' Unions, POED, KTOS, OELMEK, KTOEÖS, OLTEK and DAU-SEN, members of Schooling Worldwide (EI) and the European Schooling Unions Committee (ETUCE), on this essential day to have a good time World Lecturers' Day We come collectively as soon as once more. As we do yearly, we honor the important contributions of lecturers, the professionals who form the way forward for our societies, each in Cyprus and all over the world.
This yr's theme is “Hear Lecturers' Voices – New for Schooling “In the direction of a Social Contract” highlights the significance of guaranteeing that lecturers play a central function in shaping the way forward for training. Lecturers' voice and expertise are essential to constructing an training system that meets the wants of scholars and society, particularly in difficult occasions.
The one solution to construct the training we want for a future the place equality, variety and inclusion are core rules is to make sure that lecturers are nicely educated, nicely supported and valued. It’s important to battle discrimination and create an surroundings of tolerance in our colleges and to make colleges secure areas for each college students and lecturers.
Empowering lecturers additionally means offering them with the assets they should carry out their jobs successfully. Sustainable public funding in training is significant in order that colleges can present high-quality training for all. We should counter the rising privatization and commercialization of training that undermines the rules of public area and equal entry.
By listening to the instructor's voice and strengthening the educating occupation, we are able to create an training system that not solely equips college students with the abilities they want for the longer term, but additionally promotes the values of peace, reconciliation and social concord. Collectively, we are able to construct a greater, fairer future for everybody.
It’s our duty to work for a greater tomorrow with mutual respect and understanding in our nation and to show the significance of peace, democracy and justice in our colleges.
POED – KTOS – OELMEK – KTOEÖS – OLTEK – DAU-SEN