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EI’s national affiliates in Germany, the Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft (GEW) and the Verband Bildung und Erziehung (VBE) together with the Grundschulverband (GSV), have criticised the VERgleichsArbeiten (VerA) study which compares work between students in 3rd and 8th grades.

EI Deputy General Secretary David Edwards participated May 14 in a virtual panel discussion on education policy and the future of education. The webinar was held in the framework of the Whole Child Symposium, a live online event organised by ASCD.

The controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a comprehensive trade agreement currently being negotiated between the European Union and the United States. During his visit to Brussels on 26 March 2014 for the EU-US Summit, U.S. President Barack Obama tried to reassure critics that the trade agreement will...

Education International has urged the ILO and UNESCO to take immediate and effective action with respect to the attacks on schools in the Nigerian states Borno, Yobe and Adamawa by Boko Haram, a group of islamist extremists opposed to “Western education”.

The ETUCE Committee adopted the ETUCE Statement on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership on 15 April 2014. The statement demands that education is entirely excluded from the TTIP negotiations. It is central to get this message broadly across the EU. ETUCE has therefore asked all member organisations in the...

The TTIP is unprecedented because of its very broad scope. The negotiators intend to cover areas that have traditionally been beyond the purview of trade treaties. Consequently, there are a number of issues of general concern such as the secrecy of the TTIP negotiations, the assumptions of growth and jobs,...

The existing problems with proprietary and for-profit school and colleges in the US give a clear indication of the kind of problems that can be anticipated. A number of reports have investigated the problems with these institutions.

During the fourth round of negotiations it became evident that education is being targeted in the trade deal. The US chief negotiator, Dan Mullaney, said the US is aiming to expand access of US for-profit companies to all European service sectors including higher, adult and other education services. At the...

Educators and science employees took to the streets of Riga Monday to demand additional state financing for effective education reforms.

The global outrage and support for Nigeria’s abducted schoolgirls have exposed the risks many face in pursuit of an education, including the constant threat teachers must endure to do their jobs.

EI and the Federation of Free Workers-Trade Federation VIII (FFW), one of its national affiliates in the Philippines, conducted a training session on psychological first aid on 4 April, at the Central Philippines University, as part of the EI post-Hayan (Yolanda) rehabilitation programme.

The Alberta Teachers’ Association (ATA) has strongly rejected the Task Force for Teaching Excellence report released by Alberta’s Education Minister, considering it as an assault on teachers.

Almost 100 academics have signed a letter to the Director of Education and Skills at the OECD, Andreas Schleicher, expressing their concern about what they believe to be 'the negative consequences of the PISA rankings' including its 'escalation' in 'standardised testing' and emphasis on 'a narrow range of measurable aspects...

The Persatuan Guru Republik Indonesia (PGRI), one of EI’s national affiliates, has sent a letter to the Minister of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia, acknowledging progress made in ensuring quality education and good training for teachers, and requesting it to continue efforts in the same direction.

EI’s national affiliates, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA), have slammed the budgetary proposals contained for 2015 put forward by the House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan.

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Former colleagues in Jamaica and around the world are remembering a woman for whom teaching was not simply a profession, but a lifelong vocation realised at an early age.

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