Education International Research
Key recommendations for governments: 1. Progressively provide free TVET and higher education, and adopt measures to significantly reduce the indirect costs of tertiary education. 2. Provide support to vulnerable students to complete TVET and higher education, responding to diversity and individual needs. 3. Ensure professional autonomy and academic freedom from institutional or political censorship for educators in higher education. 4. Drastically improve employment conditions for higher education personnel, eliminating zero-hour contracts and ensuring that all educators receive decent salaries and working conditions no less than those enjoyed by professionals with similar qualifications in other sectors. 5. Realise full implementation of the 1997 UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Higher Education Teaching Personnel. 6. Ensure that TVET and higher education enhance students’ capabilities, preparing them not only for the job market but also for life and encouraging them to play an active role in society. 7. Curb privatisation in and of TVET and higher education. 8. Safeguard against the use of narrow performance metrics that risk distorting the teaching and learning process. 9. Make educational materials more accessible by ensuring that use for educational purposes is an exception within copyright laws. Increase access to teaching, learning and research materials by promoting the development of open educational resources, open access to research, and adequate copyright exceptions and limitations for education and research, both at the national level and before the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).
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