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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 11 September 2014

    Spain: youth trapped in NEET limbo

    Fears of a lost generation are sinking in in Spain after the publication of the latest OECD report on Education shows that one out of four young people does neither work nor study.

    Spain: youth trapped in NEET limbo
  2. News 9 September 2014

    Six cities, six continents, one campaign: quality education goes global

    When Education International embarks on its global Unite for Quality Education Campaign culmination tour this week, education leaders, teachers and students from around the world will push quality education to the top of the agenda.

    Six cities, six continents, one campaign: quality education goes global
  3. News 8 September 2014

    Literacy and sustainable development go hand-in-hand

    To highlight how a literate society paves the way toward a positive future, UNESCO is making sustainable development the focus and theme to mark this year’s International Literacy Day.

    Literacy and sustainable development go hand-in-hand
  4. News 8 September 2014

    Join the European Culmination event of the Unite for Quality Education campaign in Brussels on 22 September 2014!

    On 22 September 2014, the EI initiative Unite for Quality Education Campaign reaches its peak in the European Region. On this special day, ETUCE is organising a Public Hearing on the Future of Quality Education, hosted by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in Brussels, to celebrate one year...

    Join the European Culmination event of the Unite for Quality Education campaign in Brussels on 22 September 2014!
  5. News 8 September 2014

    New Brochure: Can Europe still be saved?

    In the new brochure “Can Europe still be saved?” leading representatives of German trade unions explore the fault lines and the austerity-policy orientation of Europe from different angles.

    New Brochure: Can Europe still be saved?
  6. News 8 September 2014

    High level conference on Roma inclusion

    The European Commission convenes a high level international conference in Brussels on 2 and 3 October 2014 to take stock of progress and lessons learned in integrating Roma at local level with the support of the ROMACT programme.

    High level conference on Roma inclusion
  7. News 8 September 2014

    ETUCE opinion on European Parliament reports on implementation

    The European Parliament is fully back to work. Its Committees have been formed anew. One of the first topics they addressed, is the fundamental issue of the European Semester for economic policy coordination: the implementation of 2014 priorities. In August, the European Parliament Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)...

    ETUCE opinion on European Parliament reports on implementation
  8. News 4 September 2014

    Burkina Faso: EI helps teachers build quality tools

    Developing suitable teaching and learning tools was the focus of a very successful Book Development Workshop (BDW) run by the Pan African Teachers’ Centre (PATC), the Professional Development Unit within the EI Africa Region (EIRAF) in Burkina Faso recently.

    Burkina Faso: EI helps teachers build quality tools
  9. News 3 September 2014

    Tanzania: State plans to cut public school fees

    Education International (EI) welcomes the Tanzanian Government’s plan to eliminate school fees for public secondary schools to ensure that all students successfully leaving primary school have access to higher education.

    Tanzania: State plans to cut public school fees
  10. News 3 September 2014

    Tanzania: State plans to cut public school fees

    Education International (EI) welcomes the Tanzanian Government’s plan to eliminate school fees for public secondary schools to ensure that all students successfully leaving primary school have access to higher education.

    Tanzania: State plans to cut public school fees
  11. News 29 August 2014

    Canada: Unions call for commitment to public college education

    Education unions in Quebec, Canada have appealed to the province’s Minister of Education, Sport and Leisure to publicly declare the importance of the public college system amid calls to have it abolished.

    Canada: Unions call for commitment to public college education
  12. News 28 August 2014

    Germany: Rethinking and improving teacher training

    Germany’s union for education and science is gearing up to host a conference in September focused on helping teachers navigate the challenges of working in a 21st century classroom.

    Germany: Rethinking and improving teacher training
  13. News 20 August 2014

    A World at School launches Thunderclap to ignite countdown

    With only 500 days left to get 58 million children into the classroom, A World at School has ramped up their #EducationCountdown campaign to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of universal education.

    A World at School launches Thunderclap to ignite countdown
  14. News 19 August 2014

    Health crisis forces Higher Ed Conference to relocate

    With the Ebola virus spreading sickness and fear throughout Western Africa, the president of Ghana has cancelled all international events, forcing November’s Higher Education and Research Conference to find a new host.

    Health crisis forces Higher Ed Conference to relocate
  15. News 18 August 2014

    Unite Campaign’s Africa event to move south amid Ebola threat

    With the risk too serious to ignore, Education International will relocate its Unite for Quality Education event planned for Nairobi, Kenya as travel bans from Western Africa come into effect.

    Unite Campaign’s Africa event to move south amid Ebola threat