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When the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon launched his Global Education First Initiative in 2012, he identified global citizenship education as one of the initiative’s three priorities areas, recognizing the role of education in creating more just, peaceful, tolerant and inclusive societies.

Eurostat published an article on participation of young people in education and the labour market on 12 July 2013. The article explains how youth unemployment in the EU is measured and how youth unemployment rates are affected by the transition of young adults from education to the labour market.

CEDEFOP published on 19 June 2013 the publication Labour market outcomes of vocational education in Europe - Evidence from the European Union labour force survey.

On 25 June 2013 the OECD report Education at a Glance 2013 was launched. This is an annual report analysing the education systems of the 34 OECD member countries, including 21 EU member states (Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta and Romania are not part of the OECD and therefore...

On Friday, 20th September 2013, ETUCE organizes a workshop on how to prevent early school leaving through the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT).

The 2013 edition of the Central and East European Roundtable will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, on 26-28 September 2013.

OLME launched a five–days rolling strike as of September 16th following the decision of the teachers’ general assemblies. At the end of each 5 days strike the teachers’ general assemblies will take stock of the situation and then decide on the course of the strike action.

Mexican teachers have protested en masse after the government pushed through “supplementary” or “secondary” laws aimed at changing the Education Act, in particular aspects related to teachers’ careers.

One of EI’s affiliates in Spain, the Federación de Enseñanza de CCOO (FECCOO), has complained to the European Commission about the text of the forthcoming Organic Law for the Improvement of Education Quality (LOMCE).

One of EI’s affiliate in the US, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), has developed a useful toolkit designed to help the teaching of human rights in the classroom.

The Unión Nacional de Educadores Sindicato Nacional (UNE-SN), Education International’s affiliate in Paraguay, is mobilising its members around a major campaign to demand an increase in the education budgets for 2013 and 2014.

The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), one of EI’s national affiliates, has criticised the House of Representatives’ vote to grant autonomy to Nigeria’s local Governments without addressing issues relating to the development of primary education.The House of Representatives’ stance is “sad, unfortunate and inconsiderate”, said the NUT, as it impedes...

Plans are in place for a national teachers’ strike in England before Christmas in a row over adverse changes to teachers’ pay, pensions, working conditions and jobs. This is the next phase of a campaign to protect teachers and defend education, jointly coordinated by the two biggest UK teachers' unions...

EI is urging its member organisations to press the Egyptian authorities to immediately release two Canadian professors who have been detained without charges by the Egyptian police since 17 August.

EI affiliates the Syndicat national des enseignements de second degré (SNES-FSU), the Syndicat national unitaire des instituteurs, professeurs des écoles et PEGC (SNUipp-FSU), and the Union nationale des syndicats autonomes-Education (UNSA-Education) welcomed the announcement by Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault of the permanent appointment of 28,000 support workers for students with...

Putting public services such as education high on the G20 agenda is just one of the priority recommendations from the Labour 20 (L20) for the G20 leaders’ meeting to be held in St Petersburg, Russia, from 5-6 September. The L20 is made up of the elected representatives of trade unions...

Berlin’s educators have gone on strike over better working conditions and an improved salary scale, according to the Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft (GEW), one of EI’s national affiliates.

28 August marks the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was during this March that American activist Martin Luther King delivered his iconic ‘I Have a Dream’ speech, calling for an end to racism in the US.