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Education International was honoured this week to receive a visit to its Brussels headquarters by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, Kishore Singh.

Trade unions in the UK have joined together with education experts, including teachers, governors, and school staff, to highlight the shortcomings of their government's Education and Adoption Bill to speed up the process of converting ‘failing’ schools into academies.

The UNESCO Education for All Global Monitoring Report has formally been renamed the Global Education Monitoring Report.

Teachers unions have commented on the Sutton Trust "Background to Success" report on disadvantaged pupils, stressing that austerity measures affecting school funding make it extremely difficult for students from poorer communities to access quality education.

The 17th of November marks International Students' Day, a movement which commemorates student demonstrations against the 1939 Nazi storming of the University of Prague, is today calling for education for all.

In an unprecedented effort to strengthen their capacity as social players, a group of union leaders from across Gambia are working to evaluate their situation and shape their collective voice.

Teacher activists from the German education union, Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft (GEW),and their students have organised a colourful awareness-raising day of action in the capital city, Berlin.

Teopista Birungi Mayanja, a former member of Education International's Executive Board and founder of the Uganda National Teachers’ Union, has been appointed to a new International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity.

Education International’s Asia-Pacific regional office has carried out workshops in Tajikistan on trade union basics and on child labour to help boost trade union strength, and to ensure access to education for all.

Often taken for granted, the ability to read and write is an essential element to creating sustainable societies, which is why this year’s International Literacy Day looks to promote its importance over the long-term.

Teacher unionists from Nigeria have expressed huge concerns over the insufficient financing of universal basic education programmes in the different States across the country.

Education international congratulates Swiss member organisations for having won a national Prize for their commitment to bilingualism and multilingualism in schools.

The National Coalition for Education has welcomed the recent judgement of the Allahabad High Court in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh “historic” for urging governmental officials to send their children to governmental school.

The teacher’s union Verband Bildung und Erziehung has urged public authorities in the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia to bring more attention and financing to inclusive and refugees’ education.

Barring unforeseen changes, the United Nations post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals will include education as a standalone goal alongside such critical matters as poverty, hunger and health.