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Teachers’ unions in India are lobbying hard for changes to be made to the draft Right to Education Bill.

On February 21 International Mother Language Day marked an opportunity to celebrate linguistic diversity and to promote multilingual education worldwide.

On January 30, young people and teachers from 10 countries joined up at the European Parliament in Brussels for the launch of Global Action Week 2007.

Gorgui Sow is the Regional Coordinator of the African Network Campaign on Education for All (ANCEFA), and a board member of the Global Campaign for Education (GCE). EI recently interviewed Mr. Sow to find out about ANCEFA's efforts to contribute to the achievement of quality Education for All.

"Kids have a great sense of what is fair and not fair," declared Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Glenys Kinnock in her introductory speech at the European launch of the Global Action Week 2007 Campaign: Join Up for Education Rights Now!

EI and its partners in the Global Campaign For Education (GCE) are organising a special lobbying event at the European Parliament on 30 Jan 2007 to officially announce Global Action Week 2007.

Teachers around the globe are concerned about the impact of large-scale international testing, and its uses and abuses in development of national education policies.

The latest major report released today in New York sounds an appropriate alarm bell for the international community.

The promotion of peace, democracy, social justice and equality for all peoples and in all nations is at the core of Education International's mandate. The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, celebrated on 17 October, is thus a good opportunity for EI and its member organisations to highlight the...

"All of us at Education International wish to extend our deepest sympathies to Katarina’s family, friends and colleagues around the world," said General Secretary Fred van Leeuwen.

In support of the United Nations campaign for the achievement of the Millenium Development Goals, EI urges all education workers to take part in the STAND UP action to be held on 15-16 October.

The Norwegian Post-Primary Education Trust Fund was officially launched last week to focus on secondary education in Sub-Saharan African countries.

EI representatives meeting with the Argentine president on 26 July welcomed a new education law that reaffirms government's responsibility to provide quality public education for all. President Nestor Kirchner and Education Minister Daniel Filmus met with an EI delegation gathered in Buenos Aires for a workshop on challenges facing education...

UNESCO is calling for candidatures for five International Literacy prizes of US$20 000 each. This year’s theme is “Literacy and Sustainable Development”. One of the awards, the UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy, will also grant a study visit to literacy project sites in China.

In Brazil, education personnel and activists join hands in a large-scale mobilisation for the goal of Education For All as part of Global Action Week - an international mobilisation taking place this week.

Education International (EI) welcomes the UIS (UNESCO Institute for Statistics) report and considers it an important advocacy tool: "It will help us persuade the international community to take the political and strategic decisions required to recruit the qualified teachers that we need to achieve Universal Primary Education by 2015" said...

EI affiliate in Indonesia, thePersatuan Guru Republik Indonesia(Teachers' Association of the Republic of Indonesia) - PGRI, has won the case in the Constitutional Court to increase public education budget from the present 8.1% to 20% as according to the constitution.

Next week, teachers' unions and NGOs worldwide will request governments to ensure that all children get the chance to be taught by qualified teachers.