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This year’s International Mother Language Day stresses that learning in one’s native tongue is not only crucial to achieving quality education and linguistic diversity, but important to advancing the 2030 agenda for sustainable development.

Teacher unionist and human rights defender Omar Ali Ewado is once again a free man after he was released from prison on 14 February following an appeals court decision that dismissed charges against him.

The latest report of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on Haiti underlines the importance of free quality education and warns of the perilous effects of unregulated public-private partnerships.

Education International and partner organisation ASCD, a global community dedicated to excellence in learning, teaching, and leading, call for a clear definition of quality education that places the needs of the child at the fore.

A new report on teacher professionalism raises concerns about the level of support teachers are receiving across the globe, revealing significant shortfalls in high-needs schools.

Teachers’ unions in Italy are urging Egyptian authorities to launch a full investigation into the death of Giulio Regeni, who was murdered while publishing articles on trade union rights, and who’s death remains a mystery.

Education International’s General Secretary Fred van Leeuwen has apologised to the Korean Federation of Teachers’ Associations for having urged the South Korean authorities in October 2015 to reverse their decision on state-controlled history textbooks.

During recent years, in the context of the financial crisis, unions have been asked to accept cutbacks and austerity measures with the argument there is no money for public services. Nevertheless, the study Global Corporate Taxation and Resources for Quality Public Services, commissioned by the EI Research Institute on behalf...

With the Education 2030 agenda in full force, unions from Nairobi to Bangkok are sharpening their positions in order to aim high through advocacy and action to achieve the new Sustainable Development Goal.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff discussion paper  that was presented by C. Lagarde at the World Economic Forum called for ‘temporary and limited derogations of the minimum wage for refugees’ – a proposal that has met strong rejection by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and other global union...

A Melbourne principal is prepared to risk the threat of jail by speaking out against the ongoing plight of his high school students who continue to live in an asylum seeker detention centre.

Amid an increasingly anti-union climate around the world, two Education International affiliates, from Bermuda and Mongolia, have recently won significant court victories in defense of their rights.

Education unions are urging the Ghanaian government to make amendments to its Education Act to ward off threats of commercialisation following a commitment to review the existing regulatory regime of private schools.

As the refugee crisis continues to take its toll on migrants’ lives, policies that would exclude them from national working conditions, such as paying less than minimum wage, may push them further into exclusion.

The low quality of education coupled with a rise in private and informal schools were among the issues flagged in the latest report published by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child.

The growing privatisation of education has led Kenyan trade unions to set up a comprehensive strategy, ranging from research to advocacy, in an effort to preserve the quality and access to education for all.

The 45th edition of Worlds of Education takes an in-depth look at the scourge of privatisation and commercialisation, and reveals what needs to be done to ensure the right to free quality public education.

The 45th edition of Worlds of Education takes an in-depth look at the scourge of privatisation and commercialisation, and reveals what needs to be done to ensure the right to free quality public education.