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The new advocacy toolkit for teachers, produced jointly by the EFA Global Monitoring Report, the International Task Force on Teachers for Education for All and Education International aims at helping teachers use evidence based recommendations for their advocacy.

As the world exits the economic crisis, a new report argues that education and skills will be critical to restoring long-term growth, tackling unemployment, promoting competitiveness, and nurturing more inclusive and cohesive societies.

To highlight how a literate society paves the way toward a positive future, UNESCO is making sustainable development the focus and theme to mark this year’s International Literacy Day.

The European Commission convenes a high level international conference in Brussels on 2 and 3 October 2014 to take stock of progress and lessons learned in integrating Roma at local level with the support of the ROMACT programme.

Education International (EI) welcomes the Tanzanian Government’s plan to eliminate school fees for public secondary schools to ensure that all students successfully leaving primary school have access to higher education.

Education International (EI) welcomes the Tanzanian Government’s plan to eliminate school fees for public secondary schools to ensure that all students successfully leaving primary school have access to higher education.

With only 500 days left to get 58 million children into the classroom, A World at School has ramped up their #EducationCountdown campaign to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of universal education.

This action allows the whole education community, educators as well as pupils and students, to express their support to the fundamental changes that are needed in the education system and the teaching profession in Chile.

The Australian government’s cuts to Gonski funding will rip AUS$2.67 billion out of public schools, equivalent to 20,000 teachers, according to new research highlighted by the Australian Education Union (AEU), one of Education International’s national affiliates.

Teachers are working towards increasing access and opportunities to quality education in the country’s dense mountainous areas where children and especially girls are denied a place in the classroom.

Expectations were blown out of the water today in Brussels as historic financial commitments were made toward funding education in the world’s poorest countries that will help provide a quality education for millions of children.

Expectations were blown out of the water today in Brussels as historic financial commitments were made toward funding education in the world’s poorest countries that will help provide a quality education for millions of children.

The European Union’s intention to include education services in a free trade deal being negotiated with the United States is being heavily criticised by Europe’s education sector, amid fears that it will pave the way to privatisation.

Around the world, thousands are mobilising at events marking the Day of the African Child to shed light on global education for all, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa where quality education continues to be threatened.

Education International welcomes the initiative taken by CNTE, its affiliate in Brazil, with the campaign ‘A world cup without racism’. It seeks the teachers’ active involvement against discrimination, from the classroom to the football field.

Australia’s biggest education union has lashed out at its Prime Minister’s plan to launch corporate-run schools, arguing that the move would increase inequity in the system, waste scarce resources, and rob students of a quality education.

The ETUCE Standing Committee for Equality proposed a set of recommendations in its last meeting on 2-3 June 2014. The recommendations shall be presented for adoption to the ETUCE Committee in October 2014.

EI will host a conference in Beirut, Lebanon, from 6-8 June for its Arab country affiliates to assess their governments’ progress with the implementation of education for all. The conference, forms part of EI’s Unite for Quality Education campaign which aims to make education central to the post-2015 development goals.