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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.

When teachers in Paraguay took to the streets last month to demand a decent budget for public education, they were met with police force rather than having their calls for quality education heard.

Developing suitable teaching and learning tools was the focus of a very successful Book Development Workshop (BDW) run by the Pan African Teachers’ Centre (PATC), the Professional Development Unit within the EI Africa Region (EIRAF) in Burkina Faso recently.

The teachers’ strike in Norway has ended after two months with a new agreement reached between the Union of Education Norway (UEN) and employers. At its height at the beginning of this school year, nearly 8,000 UEN members were out on strike.

Education International (EI) welcomes the Tanzanian Government’s plan to eliminate school fees for public secondary schools to ensure that all students successfully leaving primary school have access to higher education.

Education International (EI) welcomes the Tanzanian Government’s plan to eliminate school fees for public secondary schools to ensure that all students successfully leaving primary school have access to higher education.

The latest back-to-school campaign aims at sending 300.000 Syrian refugee children into the classroom this autumn, helping them work toward a positive future.

In September, Lärarförbundet’s President and Education International (EI) Vice-President for Europe Eva-Lis Sirén will embark on a campaigning tour, visiting six cities in five days.

Education unions in Quebec, Canada have appealed to the province’s Minister of Education, Sport and Leisure to publicly declare the importance of the public college system amid calls to have it abolished.

As schools begin to reopen nearly two weeks late following the police shooting of an unarmed African American man, education is being looked to as a way to heal the wounds inflicted on the city’s students.

Germany’s union for education and science is gearing up to host a conference in September focused on helping teachers navigate the challenges of working in a 21st century classroom.

The Australian Education Union (AEU), one of EI’s national affiliates, has reacted to the State of Tasmania’s indication that it did not support the Abbott Government’s plan to create a two-tier public school system.