We bring together our member organisations to discuss and share experiences, good practices and ideas on responding to collective challenges. Together we are building the education unions of the future: mass participation organisations that reflect the diverse interests and identities of their members and offer educators a multitude of ways to engage and contribute.
Arab education leaders are facing the challenge of schooling growing refugee populations head-on by working together and within the international community to get all refugee children into schools.
Jordan: renewed commitments made to educate refugee students
Tapping the fountain of youth, through helping young teachers grow within their profession, is being looked to as a way of ensuring the future of Arab unions and to guaranteeing respect for trade union rights.
Jordan: young teachers seen as the solution to sustainable Arab unions
Education leaders throughout the Arab region have descended on Amman, Jordan to confront the issues facing their teachers and students to collectively develop solutions on how to overcome the obstacles.
Arab education unionists address the challenges facing quality education
Latin America’s largest teachers’ union has stood firmly behind its members through efforts to end the practice of evaluating educators based on the academic outcomes of their students.
Mexico: teacher appraisal no longer linked to student performance
Those who knew Sh. S. Eswaran, a teachers’ union leader and advocate for children’s rights, paid respects to the man who dedicated most of his life working to empower others through quality, public education.
India: a force for public education is remembered in moving ceremonyThose who knew Sh. S. Eswaran, a teachers’ union leader and advocate for children’s rights, paid respects to the man who dedicated most of his life working to empower others through quality, public education.
India: a force for public education is remembered in moving ceremony
Faced with the challenge of boosting teachers’ ranks and improving school environments, India looks to curb the explosion of privatised education by once again making quality education synonymous with public education.
Creeping privatisation threatens Indian public school system
Teachers were seen as the driving force behind Poland’s improving school system when delegates met for the 41st National Congress of the Polish education union ZNP, while increasing privatisation was high on the agenda.
Poland: moving up the international rankings thanks to teachers
Development cooperation meetings in Brussels focused on strengthening and enhancing alliances, not only between unions, but also among NGOs and civil society groups to improve education quality worldwide.
Building alliances and strengthening relationships key to achieving quality education
The latest act of violence committed by ISIS has left one family and member of the National Education Association in mourning following the killing of their son and aid worker in Syria.
Son of NEA member slain by Islamic State
It is with great sadness we announce that Rob Durbridge, former Federal Secretary of the Australian Education Union, passed away on 10 November after a year-long battle with cancer.
Australia: Death of Rob Durbridge - a great education union leader
The newly elected Education Minister of Sweden, Gustav Fridolin, plans to support the rebuilding of the teaching profession. He wants to prevent that politicians dictate teachers what and how to teach.
Sweden: "This year everyone loves a teacher"
Teacher unionists have engaged in an awareness-raising campaign, “Ebola is everybody’s business”, in The Gambia, thanks to global financial support provided by Education International (EI).
The Gambia: EI funding vital in fight against Ebola
Global affairs were a top priority during Education International’s 43rd Executive Board meeting in Brussels, where resolutions targeting the Ebola crisis and refugee children from Syria and Iraq were among many items adopted.
EI’s Executive Board passes resolutions on Ebola and Middle East refugees