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To take on greater leadership and decision-making roles within their unions, young teachers met recently in Dakar to boost both the recruitment and participation of young members.

Major UK education unions have welcomed the announcement by Government that baseline assessments will not now be used for measuring primary school student progress in subsequent years. This follows the publication of a comparative study on baseline assessments used by primary schools.

Filipino teachers are fighting the government’s ‘K to 12’ plan which they believe would increase education privatisation and commercialisation and be detrimental to access to quality education for all.

Academics and union leaders are looking behind the false claims about the commercialisation of education, revealing its devastating effects on schools, society and democracy.

Jobs and qualifications must not depend on someone’s gender. That was the key message reiterated by the European Trade Union Committee for Education in a debate on Gender equality and Education on 18 March at the European Parliament.

Educators from over 30 countries have linked the promotion of education as public good to teacher autonomy, political commitment by governments and the recognition of education unions as agents of change.

Earlier today, Mahdi Abu Dheeb, leader of the Bahrain Teachers Association, an EI affiliate in the country, was released from prison. He had been held in detention since 2011, when he was sentenced to a prison sentence for the simple fact of calling for a teachers’ strike in support of...

The Teacher Target in the Sustainable Development Goals and Education 2030 must be implemented. This was one key finding from the 8th Policy Dialogue Forum - International Task Force on Teachers held in Mexico from 14-17 March.

While economic, social and educational reform plans are stirring up heated debates in France, the countries’ two largest education unions, UNSA Education and SNES-FSU, hold their congresses this week in Grenoble.

The US Supreme Court has ruled in favour of public employee unions, rejecting a conservative attack on the basis of the fees collected from non-members.

The planned reforms on school funding by the British government need to recognise the local needs of all schools and support equality of opportunity and achievement for every pupil, says British education union NASUWT.

The events in Brussels are an attack on the values of democracy, equality and freedom, Education International's General Secretary Fred van Leeuwen said in a comment today. He insisted that those trying to undermine those values would not succeed, but reinforce the commitment to uphold them all over the world.

Former Education International’s Executive Board member Teopista Birungi Mayanja has been given by the president the Uganda’s medal of the Order of the Golden Jubilee in the education field.

The Rendez-vous CSQ de l’éducation 2016 represented a crucial occasion for Quebec’s teacher unionists to debate and share experiences on one of the most important challenges in education, i.e. equal opportunities for all.

The critical role of women’s participation through trade unions was at the core of the UNCSW60, through a panel discussion on partnerships for gender-responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Abdolreza Ghanbari and Ali Akbar Baghani, members of the Iranian Teacher Trade Associations, for whom Education International had launched a solidarity campaign, have been released. Ghanbari had been awaiting execution for 2 years before his sentence was commuted to 15 years’ imprisonment.

A report on global education with a special focus on accountability is in the making, and educators from all over the world can contribute to it.