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A national teachers’ union in Taiwan has called for the boycott of a major food manufacturer in a bid, it says, to protect Taiwanese people’s health, especially that of students.

Education and training policy has been seriously undermined in the new European Commission, according to the European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE), Education International’s (EI) European region.

Hundreds of educators, students and unionists are expected to fill the shore line of Sydney Harbour tomorrow as quality education is celebrated to mark the beginning of the end of the Unite Campaign.

Falsely convicted as a political prisoner, Mahdi Abu Deeb, of the Bahraini Teachers association has received the support of Education International’s General Secretary in a video message that stresses his courage fighting for freedom.

Looking to teachers’ experiences to address issues in education is an approach seldom used in policy circles, but unions in India are looking to buck the trend in order to achieve quality education.

Fears of a lost generation are sinking in in Spain after the publication of the latest OECD report on Education shows that one out of four young people does neither work nor study.

Promoting gender equality in unions, education, and society was the central theme at a recent workshop in Malaysia hosted by the Sarawak Teachers’ Union (STU).

When Education International embarks on its global Unite for Quality Education Campaign culmination tour this week, education leaders, teachers and students from around the world will push quality education to the top of the agenda.

In the face of international conventions protecting children from exploitation, Bolivia’s new labour law seeks to regulate rather than eliminate the practice.

As the world exits the economic crisis, a new report argues that education and skills will be critical to restoring long-term growth, tackling unemployment, promoting competitiveness, and nurturing more inclusive and cohesive societies.

EPNoSL is organizing its next Peer Learning Activity (PLA) in Nice, France. Interested stakeholders are welcomed to join the event that will be attended by members of the wider school leadership community, including policy makers, educational leaders (school principals and head teachers, and teacher educators), researchers, representatives of professional associations,...

To highlight how a literate society paves the way toward a positive future, UNESCO is making sustainable development the focus and theme to mark this year’s International Literacy Day.

On 22 September 2014, the EI initiative Unite for Quality Education Campaign reaches its peak in the European Region. On this special day, ETUCE is organising a Public Hearing on the Future of Quality Education, hosted by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in Brussels, to celebrate one year...

In the new brochure “Can Europe still be saved?” leading representatives of German trade unions explore the fault lines and the austerity-policy orientation of Europe from different angles.

The European Commission convenes a high level international conference in Brussels on 2 and 3 October 2014 to take stock of progress and lessons learned in integrating Roma at local level with the support of the ROMACT programme.

The European Parliament is fully back to work. Its Committees have been formed anew. One of the first topics they addressed, is the fundamental issue of the European Semester for economic policy coordination: the implementation of 2014 priorities. In August, the European Parliament Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)...

The closing conference of the ETUCE project Promoting gender equality within teacher trade unions and in the teaching profession II – Implementing and reinforcing teacher trade union actions on gender equality in times of austerity convenes in Sofia on 25 and 26 September 2014.

As children around the world prepare to head back to school the unprecedented number of ongoing emergencies are devastating education systems for millions of children.