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News 21 February 2025 Palestine: International solidarity strengthens early childhood educators’ professional skills and their union
With the purpose of enhancing the professional skills of early childhood educators in Palestine, the General Union of Workers in Kindergarten and Private Schools (GUWKPS) organized a series of four union-sponsored, half-day workshops focused on “trauma-informed education.” This training for Palestinian kindergarten teachers, focused on providing them with tools to...
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News 20 February 2025 A promising future for education in Senegal: tackling the teacher shortage
Faced with a serious shortage of teachers in the country, Senegalese education unions affiliated to Education International, grouped within the Union Syndicale pour une Éducation de Qualité (USEQ) – a trade union coalition for quality education – welcomes the government’s decision to recruit graduates into the profession on an immediate...
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News 20 February 2025 Germany: Education unions united to save remedial classes for primary schools
In a controversial move, the North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) state government plans to eliminate remedial classes from the primary school curriculum. This decision has been met with strong opposition from the Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft (GEW) NRW and the Verband Bildung und Erziehung (VBE) NRW, arguing that this “grave mistake” is...
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News 19 February 2025 Go Public! How Albanian education unions are driving change to fund public education
Albania’s public education system remains critically underfunded, undermining the quality of teaching and learning while leaving teachers with low wages and poor working conditions.
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News 14 February 2025 A call for reform in Iraqi Kurdistan’s education system
A pressing and persistent issue has been brought to light by the Kurdistan Teachers’ Union (KTU): The excessive number of holidays in the academic calendar has significantly disrupted the educational process, leaving both teachers and students struggling to keep up with the curriculum.
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Worlds of Education 12 February 2025 Nordic academic freedom under threat
Jon W. Iddeng
All democratic societies rely on facts and scientific evidence for societal decision-making. Academic freedom ensures that researchers and educators at universities can provide this evidence. These institutions have a special responsibility to meet society's need for basic, curiosity-driven research, to maintain a broad knowledge readiness, and to serve as a...
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News 12 February 2025 Defending academic freedom: Higher education unions mobilise against escalating attacks
Across the world, governments, right-wing pressure groups, conservative and religious organisations, and corporate interests are escalating their attacks on academic freedom. Efforts to censor curricula, restrict research, and erode institutional autonomy are increasing, and political harassment of educators is becoming more widespread.
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News 10 February 2025 Iraq: The Unified Retirement Law: A step towards improving retirees’ lives and creating job opportunities
In a significant step towards achieving social justice and equality among retirees, the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq recently announced the implementation of the Unified Retirement Law No. 9 of 2014. The Kurdistan Teachers Union (KTU) welcomes this long-awaited decision which not only improves the conditions of retirees but also...
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Worlds of Education 7 February 2025 Academic freedom at risk: the view from North America
David Robinson
To fulfil their mission of preserving, sharing, and advancing knowledge, higher education institutions must ensure that academic staff enjoy academic freedom. Academic freedom isn’t a special perk or privilege. Rather, it’s a necessary condition for the job. It is a professional and contractual right ensuring that in their teaching, research,...
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News 4 February 2025 Zambia launches “Go Public! Fund Education” campaign to address critical challenges in education
To boost public education in the country, Zambia has officially launched the Education International (EI) “Go Public! Fund Education” campaign in Lusaka. This initiative, led by Education International Africa (EIA), aims to address the critical challenges facing the national public education system and ensure that every child has access to...
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News 29 January 2025 Guyana: Education union urges government to go public and fund education
On International Day of Education, January 24th, the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) launched Education International's (EI) Go Public! Fund Education campaign in their country. They are calling on their government to guarantee labour rights and ensure good working conditions, as well as manageable workloads and competitive salaries for teachers and...
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News 29 January 2025 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines join the “Go Public! Fund Education” campaign!
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) became the first country in the Caribbean to join the “Go Public! Fund Education” campaign during a two-day workshop held by the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Teachers' Union (SVGTU), Education International (EI), and the Caribbean Union of Teachers (CUT).
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News 28 January 2025 Belgium : unions oppose plan that worsens working conditions for teachers
A teaching profession suffering from burn out and from significant staff shortages. An undervalued non-profit sector. Demotivated, undervalued, and disrespected, teachers are advising their own children not to join the profession they have been passionately committed to for decades. These are the main issues for which teachers in Belgium have...
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News 27 January 2025 Cape Verde: Parliamentary consensus to enhance the education workers’ status
"The International Day of Education 2025 should be remembered as a milestone of achievements for the teaching profession, reflecting the dignity and recognition of its importance." This was the message of hope and determination to the nation's educators and society at large delivered by Abraão Borges, the president of SIPROFIS,...
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News 24 January 2025 Education International launches Global Status of Teachers report on the International Day of Education
On January 24, Education International (EI) marked the International Day of Education with the launch of the Global Status of Teachers Report. Authored by Dr. Ben Arnold and Dr. Mark Rahimi, this groundbreaking publication provides an analysis of the state of the teaching profession worldwide, highlighting the key role teachers...
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Worlds of Education 24 January 2025 The best way to celebrate education? Mobilize to defend it, to strengthen, and to fund it
David Edwards
Education is a human right, a public good, and a public responsibility. It relies on the millions of dedicated teachers and support personnel who make it happen in a place called school across the world every day. When this committed education workforce is undermined, the right to education is at...
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Worlds of Education 23 January 2025 Addressing the teacher shortage crisis: A Global Imperative
Dr. Ben Arnold, Dr. Mark Rahimi
The Global Status of Teachers 2024 (GST) report highlights a stark reality: teacher shortages constitute a crisis with profound implications for education systems in many countries. Drawing on insights from 204 teacher unions across 121 countries, the report provides an overview of the current challenges and opportunities facing the profession.
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Research The Global Status of Teachers 2024
Dr. Ben Arnold, Dr. Mark Rahimi
23 January 2025The Global Status of Teachers 2024The Global Status of Teachers report provides a global and regional analysis of the status and conditions of the teaching profession by representing the views of teacher unions worldwide.