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Education International and partner organisation ASCD have pledged shared effort on numbers three and four of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, acknowledging that significant progress on either depends upon realising their connection.

The Habitat III agreement on the New Urban Agenda acknowledges the strong links between sustainable urbanisation and education for all.

Education International has made it clear that there are no simple solutions to financing sustainable public education systems, and like other policies, decisions must be analysed and developed in close dialogue.

The importance and need of qualified and well-supported teachers has been reinforced with the launch of the Education Commission Report, which puts teachers at the heart of quality education and calls for increased investment.

Education needs to fundamentally change if society is to reach its global development goals. That’s according to the new Global Education Monitoring Report published by UNESCO.

Meeting in New York City, the High-Level Political Forum is convening to review the progress on the Sustainable Development Goals, and EI is there to share the voice of the trade union movement.

In its efforts to drum up support for the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 4 on Quality Education, UNESCO co-organised a high level meeting with UNICEF in New York on 19 July.

Despite the promise of the Sustainable Development Goals, new data released by the Global Education Monitoring Report reveal the immense global challenge to get all children and youth into school.

Governments’ responsibility to ensure quality education for all will be put on the table as policymakers and funding agencies meet in Norway to adopt measures to improve access to quality education globally.

By calling for stronger collective bargaining for teachers at the annual ILO Conference in Geneva, Education International has emphasised the importance of the teaching profession and quality education needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

As a part of Global Action Week, a Union of Education Norway event embraced this year’s theme of education financing by delving into the issues of commercialisation, results-based financing and tax evasion.

For the first time since the Goals were adopted last September, the UN assembled member states, civil society organisations and business leaders to establish “fruitful and effective” partnerships to achieve the 17 Goals by 2030.

With teachers playing an essential role in making quality education inclusive, equitable and a lifelong endeavour by 2030, Cambridge University’s Faculty of Education brought together leading policymakers to address the challenges and opportunities ahead.

A new Education International study provides rare, in-depth insight into the World Bank’s challenges to strike a balance of institutional coherence and consistency of teacher policy recommendations and programmes over the last decade.

The voice of the teaching profession is loud and clear in Berlin where unions are meeting face-to-face with education ministers from around the world to let governments know what teachers need for professional growth.

Marking a major win for public education, the Tanzanian government has implemented a new policy making secondary education free for all, and in doing so removes all required fees to go to school.

In a letter to the German minister for development, the members of German coalition for the Global Campaign for Education are pushing for a bolder engagement and higher financing of education in the context of development aid.

The future of education has a new roadmap after political leaders from around the world adopted the Framework for Action in the French capital, with hopes placed on its bold take on financing and inclusion.