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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 June 2008

    EI to hold press conference on "Let's Go Campaign" in Berlin

    Together with the European Student Union (ESU) and its member organisation, the Freier Zusammenschluss von StudentInnenschaften (FZS), EI and its member organisation, the Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft (GEW), are holding a press conference in Berlin on 12 June to present their joint campaign called "Let's Go".

    EI to hold press conference on "Let's Go Campaign" in Berlin
  2. News 9 June 2008

    UK: UCU's greylisting of the University of Keele to begin on 13 June

    The University and College Union (UCU) will "greylist" the University of Keele from 13 June. The term greylisting refers to a voluntary refusal to participate in the academic and other university activities where appropriate at Keele.

    UK: UCU's greylisting of the University of Keele to begin on 13 June
  3. 5 June 2008

    Let’s go! Educators and students campaign for mobility

    After finishing his first degree, Predrag Lazetic, a Serbian student, was happy to be admitted to a Master’s degree program in Germany. Well in advance of the beginning of his course, Predrag applied for his student visa, which he was told would take between four and five weeks.

    Let’s go! Educators and students campaign for mobility
  4. News 19 May 2008

    Back to School during Global Action Week

    Global Action Week 2008 lived up to its name and proved to be a truly global occasion, with coalitions of teachers’ unions issuing a simultaneous call in support of education rights everywhere for everyone. The World’s Biggest Lesson was a record-breaking event and brought the theme to a large global...

    Back to School during Global Action Week
  5. News 30 April 2008

    European Campaign for Higher Education Staff and Student Mobility in full gear

    The joint campaign of EI and the European Students' Union (ESU) for Staff and Student Mobility in Europe is in full gear. Entitled "Let's Go", the campaign is supported by the European Union's Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) and aims to achieve full freedom of movement for higher education staff and...

    European Campaign for Higher Education Staff and Student Mobility in full gear
  6. News 25 April 2008

    The Global Campaign for Education breaks World Record for the Biggest Lesson ever

    More than 7.5 million children, adults, teachers and campaigners in more than 100 countries took part in the Global Campaign for Education’s “World’s Biggest Lesson” about the importance of everyone having the chance for a quality education. The world record for the largest simultaneous lesson in history has been broken...

    The Global Campaign for Education breaks World Record for the Biggest Lesson ever
  7. News 23 April 2008

    Teachers give the World’s Biggest Lesson ever!

    As part of Global Action Week, today teachers all around the world are cooperating in an effort to set a world record for the biggest lesson ever taught.

    Teachers give the World’s Biggest Lesson ever!
  8. News 20 April 2008

    Global Action Week 2008 has arrived!

    Teachers' trade unions around the world are coordinating and participating in a huge variety of actions to show their support for quality Education For All.

    Global Action Week 2008 has arrived!
  9. News 11 April 2008

    Global Action Week is fast approaching!

    Global Action Week 2008 is fast approaching and will see the launch of activities to promote universal education.

    Global Action Week is fast approaching!
  10. News 9 April 2008

    Global Campaign for Education 3rd World Assembly & upcoming Global Action Week

    Diplomats, activists and educational sector representatives gathered for the Global Campaign for Education’s (GCE) 3rd World Assembly in January to work to advance Education For All (EFA). Unions, teachers, students and parents will continue this advocacy at grassroots level during the upcoming Global Action Week in April.

    Global Campaign for Education 3rd World Assembly & upcoming Global Action Week
  11. News 14 March 2008

    Global Action Week 2008: It is not too late to get involved!

    Global Action Week 2008 is almost upon us! In a little over a month, EI affiliates and national coalitions of the Global Campaign for Education will highlight the need for universal quality education.

    Global Action Week 2008: It is not too late to get involved!
  12. 13 March 2008

    Unions confronting climate change

    Is climate change a trade union issue? Activists at the University and College Union in the UK believe the answer to that question is an emphatic, “Yes!”

    Unions confronting climate change
  13. News 10 March 2008

    Polish teachers’ union calls for comprehensive ECE provision

    The Polish Teachers’ Union (ZNP) has called on the Polish government to ensure that comprehensive early childhood education services are provided to all young children in the country. This would ensure equalisation of opportunities for all young children in Poland and contribute to their physical, social, cognitive and emotional development.

    Polish teachers’ union calls for comprehensive ECE provision
  14. News 5 March 2008

    Campaign website on Staff and Student Mobility launched at the Higher Education and Research Standing Committee Meeting in Dubrovnik

    EI's European committee in higher education and research (HERSC) met on 28-29 Feb in Dubrovnik, Croatia, to follow up on the outcomes of the EI International Higher Education and Research Conference held in Malaga last November, as well as discuss the current developments in the Bologna Process.

    Campaign website on Staff and Student Mobility launched at the Higher Education and Research Standing Committee Meeting in Dubrovnik