Health

Over the past few decades, teaching has become a more complex activity, both because of the new demands placed on teachers by technological and cultural developments and because of the increasing deterioration of employment relations. These factors have had an impact on the quality of education, and on teachers’ working conditions.

Education International works to ensure that school is a healthy and safe environment for both the education workers and students.

School health and safety covers a wide range of issues, and they are often inter-related, depending on the situation of the education system in each country, below are a few examples:

Infrastructure:

Safe drinking water and proper sanitation facilities in schools
Faulty building material, such as asbestos
Infectious diseases:

HIV/AIDS
Psychological illnesses:

Teacher burn-out
Physical dangers:

Violence in school
concern for the health and safety of teachers and education workers stems from two reasons. Firstly, there is a need to protect teachers’ basic personal and labour rights as well as children’s right to learn; secondly, if we wish to provide quality education for all, we need teachers who are fit and fully available to do their job in adequate conditions.