Decision on the third item on the agenda: Joint ILO–UNESCO Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendations concerning Teaching Personnel (CEART): Report on allegations submitted by teachers’ organizations

Record of decisions | 12 November 2012

Decision on the third item on the agenda: Joint ILO–UNESCO Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendations concerning Teaching Personnel (CEART): Report on allegations submitted by teachers’ organizations

The Governing Body:

(a) took note of the relevant parts of the report of the 11th Session of the Joint ILO–UNESCO Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendations concerning Teaching Personnel relating to allegations on the non-observance of certain provisions of the ILO–UNESCO Recommendation, 1966, or of the UNESCO Recommendation, 1997, in Australia, Denmark, Ethiopia, Japan, and Portugal or both as applicable; and

(b) authorized the Director-General to communicate the report, along with the record of the discussions held on this point of the agenda at the Legal Issues and International Labour Standards Section of the 316th Session (November 2012) of the Governing Body, to the Governments of Australia, Denmark, Ethiopia, Japan and Portugal and to the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) of Australia, the National Teachers’ Association (formerly Ethiopian Teachers’ Association (ETA)), the Dansk Magisterforening (DM), Education International, the National Teachers’ Federation (FENPROF) of Portugal and the All Japan Teachers’ and Staff Union (ZENKYO), and to invite them to take any necessary follow-up action as recommended in the report.

(Document GB.316/LILS/3, paragraph 5, as amended by the Governing Body.)