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The Council of Pacific Education (COPE) is a regional organisation of education unions from the South Pacific Region. COPE is a sub-branch of Education International's (EI) Asia and Pacific regional division. The COPE office is based in Suva, Fiji. The current Secretary General is Govind Singh. ==Affiliates== Australia National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) Independent Education Union of Australia (IEU) Australian Education Union (AEU) Cook Islands Cook Island Teachers' Institute (CITI) Fiji Fijian Teachers' Association (FTA) Fiji Teachers Union (FTU) Association of the University of South Pacific Staff (AUSPS) Kiribati Kiribati Nation Union of Teachers (KNUT) New Zealand Tertiary Education Union New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) Post Primary Teachers' Association (PPTA) Independent Schools Education Association of New Zealand (ISEA) ''ASTE & AUS have elected to amalgamate to become New Zealand Tertiary Education Union (NZTEU) effective 1 January 2009'' Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea Teachers' Association (PNGTA) Samoa Samoa National Teachers' Association (SNTA) Solomon Islands Solomon Island National Teachers' Association (SINTA) Tonga Friendly Islands Teachers' Association (FITA) Tuvalu Tuvalu Teachers' Association (TTA) Vanuatu Vanuatu Teachers' Union (VTU) Wallis and Futuna FORCE Ouvriere Enseignement ==Activities== COPE provides advice and assistance on professional, industrial, legal and human rights issues for teachers, support staff and their representative union affiliates in the region. It also acts as a clearing house for information to both its affiliates and to other organisations across the Pacific and to Education International. COPE hosts biennial conferences to address issues facing education in the South Pacific. In August, 2008 the Roundtable and 18th Biennial Conference was held in Nadi, Fiji, together with UNESCO and UNICEF, on "Improving the Status of Teachers as per International Labour Organization (ILO)-UNESCO's 1966 Recommendation and promoting Children's Rights to Quality Education". The topics of discussion ranged from key issues and challenges in the pacific region concerning the status of teachers, to school leadership and obstacles to children's right to education specific to the region. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Council of Pacific Education (COPE)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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