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EI member organisations from several African countries will converge in Accra, Ghana, for an Early Childhood Education seminar. The seminar, whose theme is, “Quality Early Childhood Education: Every Child’s Right”, will be held from 29 – 30 September and hosted by the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT).

Fears of a return to dictatorship and political violence in Honduras are compounding the grave economic crisis facing countries across Latin America.

Australian teacher and trade unionist Susan Hopgood will take on the presidency of Education International following the resignation of EI President Thulas Nxesi, who has been elected to the National Assembly of the Republic of South Africa.

Papua New Guinea is the latest country to join the EI EFAIDS Programme. The Papua New Guinea Teachers’ Association, which represents half of the country’s 40,000 teachers, recently held its first training workshop. Twenty-one participants from across the union structure met in Port Moresby for three days of discussion and...

The electric generator was running outside the classroom and the rain pounded on the corrugated zinc roof. The noise might have been a distraction to some, but not to the 30 EFAIDS participants of the National Teachers Association of Liberia (NTAL). 30 teachers met in Monrovia, motivated, focussed, and thirsty...

In mid June the Rwandan union SYPERWA organised a 3 day workshop in Kicukiro, Rwanda which brought together 45 union trainers as well as 15 teachers living with HIV.

EI affiliate, the All India Primary Teacher’s Federation published a study on the effectiveness of in-service training for primary teachers in two of the country’s states. Research was carried out in Bihar and Tamil Nadu, the third and seventh most populous states in the country.

As the school year begins across Kenya, the Kenya National Union of Teachers, KNUT, has successfully initiated legal action to block government plans to hire ‘intern’ teachers, fearing that this new development would create a new sub-class of underpaid teachers, which would further endanger the achievement of quality education.

Advancing quality education is a priority for the Ghana National Association of Teachers, which has been working extensively on the more serious barriers to quality as another academic year begins.

Roxana Rogalski of the Argentinian teacher union federation, CTERA, shares her experience of working on the EI EFAIDS Programme in Argentina.

Education International is disturbed to learn that 221 people are missing after a boat capsized off the coast of Sierra Leone, including many children heading off to begin a new school year.

Public investment in education must be significantly increased to meet growing enrolment demands and to confront the worldwide economic crisis, according to Education International, the global union federation representing 30 million teachers and education workers in 172 countries.

In consultation with the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teacher Trade Associations, EI submitted an allegation to the UN Human Rights Council under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR).

The latest edition of EI’s flagship magazine focuses on solidarity between teachers worldwide.

EI has launched an urgent appeal for action to its member and partner organisations on 3 September to engage their help in appealing against the dismissal of the president of the Fijian Teachers' Association (FTA) Tevita Koroi.

The Indian government has approved a landmark bill which guarantees free and compulsory education to all children aged 6 to 14. The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Bill was unanimously passed in the Rajya Sabha, India’s upper House of Parliament in late July and was successfully voted...

Zimbabwean teacher unions ZIMTA and PTUZ have called the recent salary increase that places teacher salaries at US$155 a month ‘inadequate’ and urged the government to provide a living wage for teachers.

Honduran teacher unions have opted to join a general strike in the face of escalating violence in the country. Following the recent killings of two teachers, teacher unions have abandoned their previous compromise plan of teaching three days a week and supporting the national resistance to the unelected regime two...