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EI national affiliate the Gambia Teachers’ Union (GTU) has welcomed the Gambia's Consul General to the Republic of Italy, His Excellency Francesco Cristina di Santannera, statement highlighting the importance of education, acknowledging that it is the foundation for any nation’s development. He asserted that without education, no country can develop...

EI national affiliate the Gambia Teachers’ Union (GTU) has welcomed the Gambia's Consul General to the Republic of Italy, His Excellency Francesco Cristina di Santannera, statement highlighting the importance of education, acknowledging that it is the foundation for any nation’s development. He asserted that without education, no country can develop...

Public sector trade unions in Swaziland, including EI affiliate Swaziland National Association of Teachers (SNAT), have reacted negatively to the announcement of a 30 per cent pay rise for junior police officers, because a pay freeze has been applied to teachers!

Leaders of African teachers' organizations will engage their members in a global campaign for quality education to be launched by Education International in September 2013. During a meeting of EI's African Regional Committee on 25-27 March in Accra, they endorsed the campaign plans recently adopted by the EI Executive Board.

Shahnaz Nazli, a 41 year old female teacher at a girls’ school near the town of Jamrud in Peschawar, Pakistan, was shot for wanting to teach girls, on Tuesday March 26th as she walked to school. Gunmen opened fire, when Ms Nazli was just 200 metres from the school, and...

EI firmly made the case for quality public education at the fourth meeting of the United Nations High Level Panel (HLP), held from 25-27 March in Bali, Indonesia. The meeting is a key event within the on-going processes to shape a new post-2015 development and education framework.

After having been publicly bullied in a newspaper column in the United Kingdom’s second-largest paper, the Daily Mail, a transgender teacher is said to have taken her own life when the attacks became too much to cope with.

The Education International Executive Board has decided that the key priority for the organisation over the coming months should be putting quality education for all at the top of the global agenda.

On 22 March EI has filed a complaint with the UN Envoy for Global Education against Mr Mohamed El Wafa, Morocco's Minister of Education.

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT), EI affiliates, have announced the next phase of their jointly coordinated national campaign to protect teachers and defend education.

EI has been commended for its work in promoting quality education since its creation 20 years ago. The acclaim came from the UN Special Envoy for Global Education, Gordon Brown, a keynote speaker at the 41st EI Executive Board meeting held in Brussels from 19-21 March. Brown also called for...

EI has welcomed new figures released on 15 March by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). These figures show that it is possible to make basic education universal by 2015, despite a global funding gap which increased to $26 billion from $16 billion during the past three...

The 41st EI Executive Board, meeting on 19-21 March in Brussels, Belgium, has adopted the EI Global Gender Equality Action Plan (GEAP), and endorsed a second EI World Women’s Conference.

EI Executive Board holds its 41st meeting from 19-21 March in Brussels, Belgium. The Board is the democratic governing body that directs the affairs and activities of EI between its World Congresses. It ensures that those activities conform to the resolutions and decisions taken at each World Congress.

The third International Summit on the Teaching Profession, which brought together education ministers and officials, leaders of EI and of the teacher unions in the countries concerned, together with OECD officials in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) ended yesterday. They concluded that they had made significant progress in their discussions about the...

EI strongly encourages its affiliates, teachers and students to vote in the My World surveylaunched by the UN. This survey asks citizens from all over the world to share their thoughts on what priorities to include in the global development agenda beyond 2015. A good education is one of the...

The Joint Union Asbestos Committee (JUAC) has welcomed the spotlight focused on asbestos in schools at the Education Select Committee Inquiry into Asbestos in Schools on 13 March’s. EI’s UK affiliates, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT), and the...

Teacher evaluation is the main topic under review at the third International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP) held in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from 13-14 March.