Ei-iE

“Open a school, and you will close a prison.” – Victor Hugo

Irianti Syabaruddin, a teacher and mother of three, was at the supermarket on that fateful Sunday morning when the earthquake hit. The floor lurched under her feet and groceries began crashing down off the shelves. Then all she could think of was getting home to her family as quickly as...

Banda Aceh, Indonesia – Girls in exquisite golden headdresses and traditional costumes of green and black brocade tossed pink flower blossoms as they danced to welcome visitors to the closing ceremony of Education International’s post-tsunami project in Aceh, the region of northern Sumatra most devastated by the cataclysmic tsunami of...

Central bankers express cautious optimism about recovery. So does the IMF Chief Economist.

The 2009 G8 Summit was held in L’Aquila Italy from 8-10 July. Leaders of the G8 group’s member countries and the European Union were joined this year by the Heads of 20 other countries, and the Heads of 10 international organisations.

This week, the think-tank "Carnegie Endowment for International Peace" published a report on the response to the financial crisis in middle-income countries.

The US needs a 2nd stimulus; Federal programmes try to compensate for State and local budget cuts; teachers and support staff in California - host for NEA's 2009 Annual meeting - are hit hard by State budget impasse.

I want to address the state of the academic profession, both by looking back at developments and progress made since the last World Conference, but also by looking forward to where we might be going. Of course, the overriding issue today is how the current global economic recession may affect...

On behalf of Education International, the largest global union federation, representing 30 million teachers and education workers worldwide, with 406 affiliate unions in 172 countries and territories, I am pleased to address the 2009 UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education.

After weeks of negotiations, the wrap-up of the UN High Level Conference on the Financial and Economic Crisis last was a huge disappointment. The UN Summit was our opportunity to continue lobbying our demands on the global economic crisis after the Doha Conference on International Financing.

Madame Minister, other Government representatives, Mr. President of the Education International, distinguished guests, colleagues, comrades,

The UN summit on the financial crisis fails to take decisive action to deal with the gravity of the situation affecting developing countries. World media widely report civil society critique, including comments by ITUC….

The most serious economic crisis since the Great Depression has exposed the failure of an obsolete economic growth strategy based on debt-fueled consumption.

OECD/IMF talk of « exit strategies » has big risks for workers and families. The OECD’s Annual Ministerial Council Meeting in Paris this week was already talking about ways to cut back public spending …

The World Banks announced yesterday a massive drop in private capital flows to developing countries, down to one quarter of 2007 levels, and said leading developed countries are misguided in focusing efforts on restoring demand in their own economies......

A report released by the Global Campaign for Education concludes that IMF-loan conditionalities might put downwards pressures on public wage bills, in turn affecting teacher’s salaries. This conclusion is shocking in a time in which the world is facing a shortage of 18 million teachers to achieve universal primary education...

G8 Finance Ministers met in Italy on Saturday 13 June. Their statement was mildly optimistic about recovery, but was at odds with the reality, as reported by trade union leaders the day before in Geneva.