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Teachers' global fight against the education profiteers

DELEGATES at the Education International World Congress in Bangkok, Thailand, joined a packed meeting on the global response campaign against education privatisation yesterday. 

The meeting heard from representatives from a range of education unions internationally which have been directly involved in challenging the spread of privatisation.

A delegate from the American Federation of Teachers spoke about the introduction of low-cost for-profit education initiatives which used technology to reduce teacher-pupil ratios to as low as 1:200 in order to keep down costs and maximise profits, destroying children’s education in the process. 

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