"Diversity and integration - strategic plan"

Internal practice

Duration

Ongoing

Reason it was developed

Organisational development: inclusion of newly arrived refugees with teaching qualifications and teachers with a multicultural background in the union. Step up effort to recruit and include teachers with a multicultural background to positions within the union. Initiatives for improving integration in the education system.

Activities

Recruiting students, communication, training of union representatives, external co-operation and dialogue. Fast track accreditation of teachers with an immigrant and refugee background. UEN co-operates together with Oslo Metropolitan University. Lobbying for ensuring a good national framework conditions for supporting newcomers in education and training. UEN emphasizes the needs of newcomers and secure resources.

Results

UEN co-operates together with Oslo Metropolitan University. UEN holds lectures for student teachers on the norwegian labour market, trade unions and social dialogue. UEN has a pilot going on connecting pensioned teachers and foreign teacher students.

Funding

Funded by UENs organisational work and work with educational issues.

Links

Norway
UEN
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