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EI is pleased to announce that the conference website and registration system for the Unite for Quality Education Conference, which will take place in Montreal, Canada from 26-31 May 2014, is now available.

Strong education unions are crucial to ensure a good status for teachers and to provide quality education for all. That was reaffirmed by the Opetusalan Ammattijärjestö(OAJ) at the EDUCA Fair in Helsinki from 23-25 January. The largest education event in Finland, it was attended by 15,000 participants, 150 high level...

Business has an important role in helping to achieve education for all – this conviction was voiced by speakers and participants at a recent event organised by the Global Business Coalition for Education and hosted by Facebook’s London office.

EI’s affiliate unions in the Bureau of the Comité Syndical Francophone de l’Education et de la Formation (CSFEF) have pledged their involvement in EI’s flagship campaigns throughout 2014 and reiterated their commitment to free and compulsory public education for all. These assurances were made at the recent CSFEF meeting in...

‘Education, development and social inclusion’ was the theme of the 32nd Congress of the Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores em Educação (CNTE), EI’s affiliate in Brazil, held from 16-19 January in Brasilia.

Two of EI’s national affiliates in the UK, the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT), have reacted to speeches by Tristram Hunt, UK Shadow Education Secretary. They reiterated their support for a Qualified Teacher Status and a continuing professional development...

EI’s national affiliate, the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), has sponsored 400 teachers to upgrade their professional skills.

A book writers’ workshop was organised by EI’s affiliates in Tanzania in collaboration with the national Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MoEVT), in Dar es Salaam, from 2-11 September. The workshop was organised in collaboration with the Pan African Teachers’ Centre (PATC), under the umbrella of EI’s Unite for...

EI’s US national affiliates, the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) participated in a hugely successful National Day of Action for public education on 9 December. This was the largest coordinated action to reclaim the promise of public education in the US, under the banner...

Speaking about what educators can take away from the recently published PISA results, the OECD’s Head of Early Childhood Education and Schools, Michael Davidson, has highlighted that where the teaching profession is held in high esteem, the positive impact on effective learning is inevitable.

Education International (EI) welcomes many of the policy insights today's release of the results of the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) provides, especially the emphasis on teacher qualifications and quality being the essence of excellent systems. However, EI also...

EI affiliates in the African Region have celebrated the recently launch Unite for Quality Education campaign and held an additional regional launch event in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Free Trade Union of Education and Science of Ukraine (VPONU), one of EI’s national affiliates, has shown its support for Ukraine’s signing of an Association Agreement with the European Union (EU).

EI has reacted to an article by James Tooley published by The Spectator on 9 November claiming that Education International is using Malala Yousafza’s story to drive the case for government schools.

The Educators and Scientists’ Free Trade Union of Georgia (ESFTUG), one of EI’s national affiliates, launched on 5 October, World Teachers’ Day, a teacher-led campaign for quality education entitled Preserve the Past, Spotlight on Present for Better Future. The trade union linked its campaign aiming at raising the Georgian teachers’...

Madam Director-General, Madam Chair of the Executive Board, Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Education International is pleased to join UNESCO and its member states in debating and defining the future of education. As the UN’s lead agency for education, science and culture, UNESCO is strategically positioned to promote and champion...

In his statement at the 37th General Conference of UNESCO, held in Paris, France, EI General Secretary Fred van Leeuwen has called for a renewed commitment for universal free quality education to be at the centre of the new global development agenda.

Ten thousand teachers affiliated to the Fédération des syndicats libres de l’enseignement (FSLE), one of EI’s national affiliates, marched through Bucharest on 6 November. They were demanding better wages and working conditions and an end to political interference in education.