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The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) must support quality education in developing countries and ensure teachers’ involvement in local education group plans. It was the message delivered by EI at the Board of Directors meeting, held from 21-22 May in Brussels, Belgium.

According to the Global Monitoring Report 2012, the education goals agreed on in 1990 at the Jomtien World Conference on Education for All will not be achieved by 2015. Six goals were agreed to by the international community and that commitment was renewed in the Dakar World Education Forum in...

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), one of EI’s national affiliates, has joined in the Global Action Week (GAW) led by the Global Campaign for Education, and held from 21-27 April. The theme of this year’s GAW is “Every Child Needs a Teacher”.

Officials from the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT), one of EI's Kenyan affiliates, have condemned the severe teacher gap in the country, urging national authorities to remedy the understaffing.

Education International (EI) and its affiliates worldwide take part in the Global Action Week (GAW) activities to remind governments, the international community and other stakeholders that every child needs a qualified teacher. Led and created by the Global Campaign for Education (GCE), of which EI is a founding member, this...

EI firmly made the case for quality public education at the fourth meeting of the United Nations High Level Panel (HLP), held from 25-27 March in Bali, Indonesia. The meeting is a key event within the on-going processes to shape a new post-2015 development and education framework.

EI strongly encourages its affiliates, teachers and students to vote in the My World surveylaunched by the UN. This survey asks citizens from all over the world to share their thoughts on what priorities to include in the global development agenda beyond 2015. A good education is one of the...

EI’s largest national affiliate in Ghana, the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), has organised a workshop from 19-23 February in Accra in partnership with the Pan African Teachers’ Centre (PATC) and the Canadian Teachers Federation (CTF). At the event, teachers were urged to adopt a positive attitude towards reading...

UNICEF and UNESCO have launched an e-discussion on Governance and Financing of Education. The consultation runs through the 24th of February.

On 25-26 January, around 14,000 teachers attended in Helsinki the Educa-fair, including members of one of EI’s national affiliates, the Opetusalan Ammattijärjestö(OAJ). The Fair featured presentations and discussions on ways to improve education and around 200 companies exhibited their education materials and services.

The campaign to abolish tuition fees in Bavaria has taken a step forward with a referendum on the issue set to be organised. This follows on from 10 per cent of Bavaria’s eligible voters agreeing to a referendum on the abolition of tuition fees.

EI has called on the UN High Level Panel (HLP) on the Post-2015 Development Agenda to include education in the new development framework. The call was made at the 3rd meeting of the HLP, held in Monrovia, Liberia, from 30 January to 1 February 2013.

Francisco García Suárez was elected as the new General Secretary of the CCOO’s Education Federation (FECCOO) at the closing session of its 11th Congress held in January in Madrid. José Campos, the former FECCOO General Secretary and member of EI’s Executive Board, will now become a member of the executive...

Significant progress has been made in building on EI’s high-level mission to Chile last year, which was organised by the EI Regional Office in Latin America. This is all part of EI’s continuing work to defend public education from the onslaught of the Global Educational Reform Movement and its privatisation...

As political and business leaders gather in Davos for another year’s World Economic Forum, the Education for All Global Monitoring Report has released a new policy paper showing that contributions from corporations and private foundations combined total only $683 million a year, equivalent to just 5% that aid donors spend...

Nearly one billion people around the world can neither read nor write. Of this number, an estimated 700 million people have dyslexia, a neurobiological, multifaceted, life-long condition which is often hereditary.

Quality public education in Haiti was highlighted when 20 representatives of 10 trade union organisations from Latin America, Europe, the United States, Canada and the Caribbean took part in a political mission organised by EI from 15-17 January. The aim of the mission was to support the Campaign for Quality...

The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) in Ghana, one of EI’s national affiliates, has welcomed President John Dramani Mahama’s choice to nominate Professor Naana Opoku Agyeman as Education Minister. Professor Opoku Agyeman is a former Vice Chancellor of the Cape Coast University.