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.
The 2nd ITUC World Congress, taking place in Vancouver from 21–25 June, has closed with a firm resolve to struggle for the attainment of quality public services and education for all, as a key part of the strategy to exit the global economic crisis.
Education for All success at ITUC World Congress
The face-off needed to stay polite but firm. And it did. On Tuesday, 22 June, Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Pascal Lamy, Managing Directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Trade Organization (WTO) respectively, set out their organizations’ stalls to the 1,400 delegates of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)...
Strauss-Kahn and Lamy fail to convince International Trade Union Confederation in Vancouver
The presidents of Education International and the Canadian Teachers’ Federation (CTF) have called on the G20 to support a new global partnership for teacher education and professional development.
Call for G20 to promote quality education with qualified teachers
The presidents of America’s two largest teaching unions, American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and National Education Association (NEA), have rallied together to call on the US President to advocate for education funding at G8/G20 summits.
US unions call on President Obama to defend education funding
There was progress in getting key messages on education through to the G20, as a result of Global Union consultations with the Canadian Prime Minister on 18 June, with the participation of EI and its Canadian affiliates.
Getting education on the G20 agenda
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Development cooperation has always been a priority for Education International (EI). Since its founding Congress in Stockholm in 1993 EI member organisations have been promoting programmes and activities to strengthen teacher unions worldwide.
Towards enhanced harmonisation of Development Cooperation efforts
While the first Education For All Goal is about improving and expanding early childhood education (ECE), not much has been done to meet the needs of young children since the EFA goals were agreed in 2000. This is to a large extent due to the fact that priority was given...
Ghanaian union GNAT showing leadership in ECE
Following the devastating earthquake which struck Haiti on 12 January this year, EI launched an Urgent Action Appeal and a Special Fund to support its Haitian member organisation - the Confédération Nationale des Enseignants d’Haïti (CNEH) - to re-establish its work of caring for teachers and promoting education and to...
Haitian union CNEH building a future for teachers
The 6th Education International African Regional Conference meeting in Cairo, Egypt, on 26-31 January 2007 noted the trend towards unity by unions at the international level with the unification of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and the World Confederation of Labour (WCL) and the integration of the...
Unions’ bridge-building in Africa leads to stronger, more effective organisations
Meeting in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, the EI Regional Committee for Latin America called on governments in the region to prevent a heavy setback in education quality because of a lack of necessary investments.
Teachers call for improvements in teacher training in Latin America
Global Unions have released a statement to world leaders attending the G8/G20 Summits that will take place later this month in Canada.
G8/G20 Summits: Unions urge world leaders to learn lessons of the past
The PES Committee/ETUCE Executive Board met in Brussels on 15th June to consider the latest proposals for draft By-Laws for a new integrated structure for the European region.
Pan-European Committee adopts draft By-Laws and calls extra-ordinary Regional Conference
EI General Secretary, Fred van Leeuwen, has paid tribute to the leadership of its affiliate member, the Independent Trade Union of Education Workers of the Azerbaijan Republic, which celebrated its 90th anniversary on 9 June, 2010.
Union of Education Workers in Azerbaijan Mark 90th Anniversary
‘Will we have a lost generation?’ is the solemn question that EI's Senior Consultant to the General Secretary, Bob Harris, will be asking participants at the International Labour Conference on 10 June in Geneva, Switzerland.
ILO must ensure ‘lost generation’ gets access to quality education
Education International’s sixth World Congress will take place from 22–26 July, 2011, in Cape Town, South Africa. The Executive Board of EI has agreed that the main theme will be ‘Building the Future through Quality Education’.
Be prepared for EI’s sixth World Congress!
Technology is everywhere, including the classroom, so we publish articles on software and computers, we test netbooks and smartphones, but in this issue we report on an initiative being supported by EI’s Swiss member organisationDachverband Schweizer Lehrerinnen und Lehrer(LCH). In partnership with the Canton of Aargau, which manages a grants...
Talented youngsters discover the world of robotics
Nearly twenty postgraduate students have benefited from the Mary Hatwood Futrell Scholarship Fund since its inception in 2005. The fund is sponsored by Education International in honour of Mary Hatwood Futrell who was the founding President (1993-2004).
Mary Hatwood Futrell Scholarships: Fund helps disadvantaged students to achieve their dreams