SADTU Teachers at Work, with logo, smaller.png Media Alert, 28 April 2016 SADTU to Picket at Pearson Offices Picket to Change Pearson’s business strategy SADTU is deeply concerned that in an effort to expand and increase profits, Pearson PLC is turning its back on free public education for all. The company’s activities around the world indicate its intention to commercialise and privatise education at all levels. From fuelling the obsessive testing regimes that are the backbone of the “test and punish” efforts in the Global North, to supporting the predatory, “low-fee” for-profit private schools in the Global South, Pearson’s brand has become synonymous with profiteering and the destruction of public education. Pearson’s efforts to make education a commodity to be bought and sold in the Global South is a serious threat to democracy and will ultimately increase segregation and marginalisation. Access to education is a fundamental human right and should not be based on a family’s ability to pay. By supporting the expansion of low-fee private schooling and other competitive practices, Pearson is essentially ensuring that a large number of the world’s most vulnerable children have no hope of receiving free, quality education. We are therefore joining unions and educationist across the globe to picket at Pearson’s offices. The picket will coincide with the Pearson Board meeting in London to challenge the company’s business strategy to respect free public education and halt their project of commercialising and privatising education at all levels. We are calling on SADTU members to join the picket at the Pearson’s office as per the details below. • Date: 29 April 2016 (Friday) • Time: 13h30 - 15h30 • Venue: Pearson South Africa 4th Floor Auto Atlantic Building, Cnr Hertzog Boulevard and Heerengracht Boulevard Cape Town, South Africa For further information, please contact: Jonavon Rustin, Provincial Secretary, 083 633 5714 Sibongile Kwazi, Deputy Provincial Secretary, 083 627 8006 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
