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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4

In 2015, all countries committed to achieving 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Education International played a critical role in securing a stand-alone goal for education - Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4): Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. Significantly, SDG4 recognised that quality education can only be delivered by qualified teachers.

However, at the current pace, governments will fail to achieve SDG 4. The COVID-19 pandemic poses additional challenges, and risks reversing years of progress on education. Urgent and decisive action is imperative.

Together with our member organisations around the world we are working to ensure that governments live up to their promise to achieve SDG 4 and all its targets by 2030.

  • We monitor progress and hold governments accountable.
  • We advocate for enhanced domestic financing for public education through fair and progressive taxation and international aid.
  • We oppose corporate interests that treat education as a market instead of a public good accessible to all.
  • We promote quality education that is free from violence, develops the “whole child”, builds tolerance, understanding, democracy, respect for human rights and active citizenship for sustainable development.
  • We promote the achievement of the “teacher target” (target 4.c), underlining every students’ right to be taught by a trained and qualified teacher.

Our work in this area

  1. News 27 May 2015

    EI’s priorities included in the new global education strategy

    Backed by a 20-strong delegation, Education International made its mark at the World Education Forum in Incheon, South Korea, where the teachers’ voice helped deliver the new education declaration.

    EI’s priorities included in the new global education strategy
  2. News 21 May 2015

    Education International takes centre stage at World Education Forum

    President Susan Hopgood has brought Education International's message to the heart of the World Education Forum: a successful education agenda needs the inclusion and consultation of teachers and civil society.

    Education International takes centre stage at World Education Forum
  3. News 21 May 2015

    Education For All set to fail without meaningful teacher involvement

    Education International has presented its own assessment of the last 15 years of EFA at the World Education Forum in Korea, which states that without a consistent engagement of teachers in education policy, future strategies are bound to fail.

    Education For All set to fail without meaningful teacher involvement
  4. News 21 May 2015

    Education For All set to fail without meaningful teacher involvement

    Education International has presented its own assessment of the last 15 years of EFA at the World Education Forum in Korea, which states that without a consistent engagement of teachers in education policy, future strategies are bound to fail.

    Education For All set to fail without meaningful teacher involvement
  5. News 19 May 2015

    EI a leading force at World Education Forum

    The Education International delegation represents the largest constituency group at the World Education Forum, bringing together education union leaders from five continents, pushing for a rights-based new global education agenda.

    EI a leading force at World Education Forum
  6. News 19 May 2015

    Support for teachers in pre-World Education Forum declaration

    More than 130 NGOs have pushed for a stronger role of civil society and for the recognition of teachers within the post-2015 process two days ahead of the World Education Forum that will agree on a new global education agenda.

    Support for teachers in pre-World Education Forum declaration
  7. News 18 May 2015

    Global Financing for Education needed to make new goal a reality

    The proposed Sustainable Development Goal on education is being called the most ambitious commitment to education in history, but one which global leaders in education finance say requires greatly increased resources to pay for it.

    Global Financing for Education needed to make new goal a reality
  8. News 17 May 2015

    New global education agenda: Teacher involvement will be key to success

    Any new education strategy must involve teachers in order to succeed and must be rights-based: this is the message that the EI delegation is ready to deliver at the World Education Forum in Incheon, Korea.

    New global education agenda: Teacher involvement will be key to success
  9. News 15 May 2015

    Korea: EI promotes teacher inclusion at World Education Forum

    A high level delegation from Education International will advocate for a bolder stance on Education for All at the World Education Forum in Incheon, South Korea from 19-21 May.

    Korea: EI promotes teacher inclusion at World Education Forum
  10. News 13 May 2015

    World Bank must support quality public education, not private schools!

    Education International, along with nearly 110 international and national organisations, has commented on a speech made by the World Bank president praising the results of a multinational chain of low-fee profit-making private primary schools.

    World Bank must support quality public education, not private schools!
  11. News 11 May 2015

    Teachers’ voices needed to move the post-2015 education agenda forward

    Education stakeholders convened in Brussels’ Norway House last week to prepare for July’s Oslo Summit on Education for Development that is set to tackle the global sector’s most pressing challenges.

    Teachers’ voices needed to move the post-2015 education agenda forward
  12. News 5 May 2015

    UNESCO reminds us that education is a human right and a public good

    A new UNESCO report reinforces education as a basic human right and public good, and calls for a humanistic approach to education in the lead up to the World Education Forum in Incheon, South Korea.

    UNESCO reminds us that education is a human right and a public good
  13. Research

    Creating a supportive working environment in European higher education

    Marie Clarke
    30 April 2015

    Creating a positive working environment is key to the future success of higher education across Europe. Self-direction and autonomy are positive influences in the work context. Those who feel supported at work will enjoy their experience, like their jobs and have high levels of job satisfaction. The capacity to form...

    Creating a supportive working environment in European higher education
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  14. News 30 April 2015

    Final push toward new UN sustainability goals begins in Paris

    As the UN Secretary General’s Global Education First Initiative nears completion of its mandate, the final push toward the post-2015 goals begins and all eyes turn toward the next steps of the global agenda.

    Final push toward new UN sustainability goals begins in Paris
  15. Research

    The Bologna Process under threat

    29 April 2015

    In this study, academics across nine countries in Europe identified a number of key issues that impacted upon their working environment. These included the impact of decreased funding; the difficulties experienced in forming supportive relationships; negative experiences of academic life in the initial years; a deterioration in working conditions; the...

    The Bologna Process under threat
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