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Building on the official launch of the European Higher Education Area at the 10th Anniversary Bologna Ministerial Conference last month, EI announces the signature of a new agreement with the European Students’ Union (ESU).

At the national congress of the Botswana Teachers' Union (BTU) held from 5-9 Apr in Goodhope, the delegates voted to join forces with the public employees' union in order to persuade the government to implement the Public Services Act.

Education International participated in the recent 5th Commonwealth Teacher Research Symposium held from 24-25 Mar at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa.

In a recent press conference on 30 Mar called by the Ligue des professeurs de l'enseignement secondaire public du Liban (LPESPL), teachers demand to be paid 12 consecutive years of allowance arrears.

The Executive Board of EI affiliate CNEH is working on an Action Plan, after getting feedback from the Federations, and the preparations for the International Trade Unions Confederation (ITUC) Summit in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 8-10 April.

The 5th Francophone Conference on HIV/AIDS took place recently in Casablanca from 28-31 Mar with more than a thousand participants from 40 countries.

In its statement today at the United Nations International Donors' Conference towards a New Future for Haiti, held in New York, the United States, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) reiterated that "decent work must be central to the reconstruction efforts of Haiti and to shape a new development model...

Hope for Haiti: The new edition of EI’s flagship magazine focuses on the solidarity shown by teachers worldwide after the devastating January earthquake.

The EFAIDS Programme partners Education International, the Education Development Centre and the World Health Organisation present the most recent EFAIDS resource ‘Learning for Life: Classroom Activities for HIV and AIDS education’ a toolkit destined to support teachers to address themes relating to HIV and AIDS with their students.

Dilapidated buildings with cracked walls, filthy toilets with open plumbing and classrooms devoid of all but the most limited resources. These were the shocking conditions uncovered by Malian teacher union SNEC who carried out a survey of public school facilities at primary and secondary level in the urban area of...

Ghanaian teacher unions, GNAT and TEWU, under their national EFAIDS Programme recognised that the number of teachers leaving the profession each year is a challenge to achieving Education for all in Ghana. Recognising that identifying the cause of the problem, is key to addressing the problem they sponsored a survey...

Roxana Rogalski and Mariela Cimadevilla, coordinators of the national EFAIDS Programme of Argentinean teacher union CTERA shared their expertise on HIV and AIDS themes with the union leadership of Costa Rican unions ANDE and SEC during a workshop in San José, Costa Rica in late February.

A 2000 survey in Rwanda by the National Population Office found that less than a third of respondents believed that people living with HIV should continue working. Almost a decade later, Rwandan teacher union SYPERWA (Unions of Education Personnel in Rwanda) set out to examine current attitudes towards teachers living...

Mor Mbengue, coordinates COSSEL (Senegalese committee of teacher unions for EFA and against AIDS) and is Deputy General Secretary of Senegalese union UDEN. During the 5th Francophone Conference on HIV and AIDS in Casablanca in late March he will present CARVEE (Committee of Action and Research on Vulnerability in the...

Education, both secular and religious, can promote democratic principles and social justice while preparing students to cope with the complexities of adult life, EI General Secretary Fred van Leeuwen told 500 teachers attending the annual conference of the Kuwait Teachers’ Society on 23 March.

Five years after the cataclysmic tsunami of December 2004, Education International is proud to release a video documentary on its most ambitious development cooperation project ever – to build and equip 35 schools in the devastated region of Aceh, Indonesia.

Colombian teacher Duvian Dario Rojo Cadavid and his wife were enjoying an early evening walk together in the municipal park of their home town of Puerto Berrío when they were shot dead by unknown assailants on 13 March, the day before senatorial elections. Their deaths bring the total number of...

The three EI affiliates in Zambia have agreed to merge to improve their bargaining power and to better enable members to provide quality education to their students.