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Research

  1. Young members

    Barriers to the Participation of Young Educators in Education Unions and Leadership Roles in Africa

    16 July 2025

    This landmark research report by Education International Africa explores the systemic, socio-economic, and cultural challenges limiting young educators’ participation in Education Unions and leadership roles across the continent.

    Barriers to the Participation of Young Educators in Education Unions and Leadership Roles in Africa
    1. Barriers to the Participation of Young Educators in Education Unions and Leadership Roles in Africa
  2. Go public! Fund education

    Teacher job satisfaction: International evidence on the associations with teacher workload, school leadership, and student discipline

    Martin Henry, Nurullah Eryilmaz, Alec Kennedy, Rolf Strietholt, Stefan Johansson, Pontus Bäckström

    15 July 2025

    Education International and IEA (a collaboration of researchers, analysts, scholars and agencies) have produced a compass brief focussed on teacher job satisfaction. What is driving low job satisfaction? How do school leaders, teacher workload and student behaviour contribute to this? What do the numbers tell us about where we should...

    Teacher job satisfaction: International evidence on the associations with teacher workload, school leadership, and student discipline
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  3. Standards and working conditions

    In the eye of the storm: Higher education in an age of crises

    Howard Stevenson, Maria Antonietta Vega Castillo, Melanie Bhend, Vasiliki-Eleni Selechopoulou

    30 June 2025

    The research examines recent trends in the higher education sector and how they align with the current provisions of the ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Higher-Education Teaching Personnel (1997) and the recommendations of the UN High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession. It also analyses higher education unions' experience with...

    In the eye of the storm: Higher education in an age of crises
    1. Report
    2. Summary
  4. Research

    Rising Voices: Women’s Leadership in Arab Education Unions

    Opportunities, Challenges, Obstacles & Solutions for Increasing Women’s Participation and Leadership

    24 June 2025

    Maha Rissouni, June 2025 Education International decided to conduct this study in six Arab countries in partnership with a significant number of Arab education unions: Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine.

    Rising Voices: Women’s Leadership in Arab Education Unions
    1. Executive Summary (English)
    2. Executive Summary (Arabic)
  5. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4

    School Leadership in Africa: Policy and Practice

    23 June 2025

    This study, commissioned by Education International Africa and carried out by Dr Casmir Chanda, sheds light on key issues surrounding school leadership through a comprehensive analysis of education policies and the lived experiences of school principals' union leaders across the continent.

    School Leadership in Africa: Policy and Practice
    1. School Leadership in Africa: Policy and Practice
  6. Climate action and literacy

    Towards quality climate change education for all: A critical assessment of climate education policies in India and the Philippines

    Dr. Ruchira Das, Dr. Ranjana Das

    4 June 2025

    This research project explores and critically analyses climate change education policies and their execution in two South Asian nations that are pronouncedly susceptible to the impacts of climate change, the Philippines and India.

    Towards quality climate change education for all: A critical assessment of climate education policies in India and the Philippines
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  7. Standards and working conditions

    Just Wages for Public School Teachers in Lebanon

    Teacher Remuneration During Emergencies

    12 May 2025

    The under-resourcing of the public education sector in Lebanon negatively impacts teachers’ labour rights, working conditions, wages, professional development, and well-being. These issues stem from systemic problems tied to Lebanon’s political and economic context.

    Just Wages for Public School Teachers in Lebanon
    1. Summary (ARA)
    2. Summary (ENG)
  8. Standards and working conditions

    Teacher Compensation in Crisis Contexts: Challenges in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

    Dr. Eman Najjar, Dr. Hilmi Hamdan

    5 May 2025

    This study aims to investigate the primary factors contributing to irregular salary disbursements in Palestine during emergencies, identify potential interventions to address the issue, and evaluate the consequences of financial instability on the quality of education.

    Teacher Compensation in Crisis Contexts: Challenges in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
    1. Research Paper
    2. Summary
  9. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4

    Teacher compensation in crisis contexts: Problems & paradoxes for paying teachers in South Sudan

    Mading Peter Angong, Sarah Etzel, Whitney Hough, Mary Mendenhall, Kemigisha Richardson, Tiffany Tryon, Malok Mading Wol

    28 April 2025

    Teachers are essential to upholding the right to quality education for children in crisis and displacement contexts, yet they often experience delayed, irregular, or insufficient compensation, leading to demotivation, absenteeism, and destabilization of educational systems.

    Teacher compensation in crisis contexts: Problems & paradoxes for paying teachers in South Sudan
    1. Research Paper
    2. Executive Summary
    3. Recommendations on government teachers
    4. Recommendations on incentive teachers
  10. Future of work in education

    The Global Status of Teachers 2024

    Dr. Ben Arnold, Dr. Mark Rahimi

    23 January 2025

    The Global Status of Teachers report provides a global and regional analysis of the status and conditions of the teaching profession by representing the views of teacher unions worldwide.

    The Global Status of Teachers 2024
    1. Research
  11. Equity and inclusion

    Unions leading the way to decolonise education

    Gabriela Bonilla

    10 December 2024

    This research on the decolonisation of education aims to promote further reflection among Education International (EI) member organisations on the role of unions, teachers, and policy in the decolonisation of education.

    Unions leading the way to decolonise education
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