We bring together our member organisations to discuss and share experiences, good practices and ideas on responding to collective challenges. Together we are building the education unions of the future: mass participation organisations that reflect the diverse interests and identities of their members and offer educators a multitude of ways to engage and contribute.
Spain’s Federation of Education Workers and the Federation of Public Service have become one, joining forces to create what is now known as the Federation of Public Service Employees UGT.
Teachers and public service workers merge to form new union federation
Teachers unions are appealing to the community of Vuwani for calmer heads to prevail as schools and books burn, leaving more than 26,000 students in limbo amid increasing violence in the country’s north-eastern region.
Protests lead to the destruction of 23 schools in South Africa’s Limpopo Province
Academics, researchers and activists from all over the world are ready to turn theory into action as they descend on Brussels for a two-day exchange of ideas and research on the future of education.
Leading thinkers in education to put their heads together on policy
With Director Martin Romer retiring as European Director at the end of the year, EI and the ETUCE are seeking the right candidate to lead the European Trade Union Committee for Education into the future.
Education International seeks new director to lead its European Region
Educators from over 30 countries have linked the promotion of education as public good to teacher autonomy, political commitment by governments and the recognition of education unions as agents of change.
Successful implementation of education policy relies on teacher involvement
While economic, social and educational reform plans are stirring up heated debates in France, the countries’ two largest education unions, UNSA Education and SNES-FSU, hold their congresses this week in Grenoble.
French unions brace against anti-social reforms
The planned reforms on school funding by the British government need to recognise the local needs of all schools and support equality of opportunity and achievement for every pupil, says British education union NASUWT.
UK: NASUWT conference demands supportive funding reform