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EI President Susan Hopgood, General Secretary Fred van Leeuwen, Deputy General Secretary David Edwards and Executive Board member Marième Sakho Dansokho have participated in a series of high-level meetings in Washington DC, USA, at World Bank-International Monetary Fund (IMF) Spring Meetings, on the Global Education First Initiative (GEFI). They have...

Blog Action Day, which takes place every year on October 16, is a big chance for high visibility for one important global topic, as bloggers from different countries, interests and languages blog about it on the same day. Vote now to make sure that education becomes this topic!

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), one of EI’s national affiliates, has joined in the Global Action Week (GAW) led by the Global Campaign for Education, and held from 21-27 April. The theme of this year’s GAW is “Every Child Needs a Teacher”.

Officials from the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT), one of EI's Kenyan affiliates, have condemned the severe teacher gap in the country, urging national authorities to remedy the understaffing.

Education International (EI) and its affiliates worldwide take part in the Global Action Week (GAW) activities to remind governments, the international community and other stakeholders that every child needs a qualified teacher. Led and created by the Global Campaign for Education (GCE), of which EI is a founding member, this...

EI’s affiliate, the Canadian Federation of Teachers (CTF), held its 2013 Women’s Issues Symposium from 17-18 April in Ottawa. This year's theme focused on violence against women and girls. In Canada, violence against women and girls is all too prevalent. It targets all groups of women, across age, ethnic, class...

The National Education Association (NEA), an EI national affiliate, together with the Florida Education Association (FEA), has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the evaluation of teachers based on the standardised test scores of students they do not teach or based on subjects they do not teach.

EI initiated on March 16, 2013 the first of its 4 forums with education unions in Egypt . Over 90 activists from independent organizations of teachers, university, and educational workers met in Cairo, Egypt to discuss challenges facing workers in the education sector and how to strengthen democratic unions. They...

EI officially launched the Organising Network (OrgNet) on 8-9 April in Washington D.C, US, as mandated by EI’s 6th World Congress. The aim of the network is to engage in strategic and targeted organising campaigns to grow and strengthen inclusive education unions. The launch event was hosted by EI’s affiliates...

The Bureau of the Francophone Trade Union Committee for Education and Training (CSFEF) met in Chisinau, Moldova, from 11-13 April. The meeting was preceded by a symposium where the impact of the current economic situation on public education, in each of the countries represented, was discussed.

The provision of quality early childhood education (ECE) services has been highlighted as an important entitlement for all young children at a Centrale des Syndicats du Québec (CSQ) meeting.

Fostering the role of education unions as key voices within education reform processes and advancing teacher professionalisation through collaborative teaching practices, were some of the main issues that arose during the second day of the 9th EI annual Research Network meeting, held on 11 April in Brussels.

The status of teachers as well as trends in freedom of association and collective bargaining since the financial and economic crisis were among the topics debated by participants at the 9th EI annual Research Network (ResNet) meeting held in Brussels, Belgium, on 10-11 April, 2013.

EI’s affiliate, the Uganda National Teachers’ Union (UNATU), has set out terms for Government to meet before they sign new contracts.

EI has welcomed the release on bail of 22 trade unionists, after 289 days in jail. Among the released are Mehmet Bozgeyik and Sakine Eren Y?lmaz, respectively General Secretary and Women’s Secretary of Egitim Sen, EI’s national affiliate.

In Canada, teacher unions celebrated the Day of Pink on 10 April, the International Day against Bullying, Discrimination, Homophobia and Transphobia in schools. On 3 May, a US initiative, supported by the American Federation of Teachers, “Stand4Change” will also invite school communities throughout the world to take a firm stand...

EI and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), an EI affiliate in the United States of America, have organised seminars to support colleagues in Lebanon and Jordan.

The National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) and the National Union of Teachers (NUT), the two largest EI national affiliates in the UK, have recommended a video about the United Kingdom’s Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove. The video looks at the policies pursued by Gove...