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Education International (EI) will increase its engagement with the concerns of member organisations, both directly and in partnership or through lobbying influential international organisations.

Education International’s mandated campaigns against privatisation in education and detrimental trade agreements received high-level support by guest speakers at the third plenary of its 7thWorld Congress in Ottawa, Canada on 23 July. The conference runs until Sunday, 26 July.

The importance and benefit of quality environments in teaching and learning was emphasised by delegates at Education International’s 7th World Congress in Ottawa, Canada on 23 July.

Today, the anticipated book and call to action for teachers, unions, and parents, Flip the System, is being presented at Education International’s Seventh World Congress, where copies are available to delegates.

Today, the anticipated book and call to action for teachers, unions, and parents, Flip the System, is being presented at Education International’s Seventh World Congress, where copies are available to delegates.

The Credentials Committee adopted the final list of votes and delegates entitlements for the Education International’s 7th World Congress, based on dues payments, on 22 July.

A President, five Vice Presidents, and a General Secretary for Education International (EI) were all elected at the second plenary session of EI’s 7th World Congress in Ottawa, Canada, on Wednesday, 22 July.

Education International’s campaign against the increasing privatisation in education received fulsome and passionate support from delegates at its 7th World Congress in Ottawa today (22 July).

International trade agreements that prioritise the needs of big business over society, working people, and the environment were given the ‘thumbs down’ by delegates at Education International’s 7th World Congress in Ottawa, Canada, on Wednesday, 22 July.

At the first plenary session of Education International’s 7th World Congress in Ottawa, Canada, on 22 July, General Secretary Fred van Leeuwen introduced the Quadrennial Report, which summarised the work of Education International (EI) over the last four years.

Women union leaders are active not just in their own schools but also in their communities. That’s according to Education International (EI) president Susan Hopgood who was addressing the EI Women’s Caucus at EI’s 7th World Congress in Ottawa, Canada, on 21 July.

The 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform of Action which outlined a broad vision of women’s rights and gender equality has not been fully achieved in the ensuing 20 years.

Education International’s 7th World Congress in Ottawa, Canada, was officially opened on 21 July by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, the Honourable Elizabeth Dowdeswell.

Guy Ryder, the Director-General of the International Labour Organisation, has praised Education International as 'one of the biggest success stories of the international trade union movement of the last two decades', during his speech at the Congress' opening.

The 7th World Congress officially opened with around 1,700 participants, who celebrated past accomplishments of the organisation and looked to the next four years.

E?itim-Sen, the national Education International’s affiliate, has strongly condemned the suicide bomb attack that killed university students, including one member of the union, in Suruc, Turkey.

The role of unions in mobilising support for quality education was highlighted at Education International’s 7th World Congress in Ottawa, Canada, on 21 July.

The Education International President Susan Hopgood inaugurated the first ever Further and Higher Education Caucus at the EI 7th World Congress on 20 July in Ottawa, Canada.