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On Monday 26 January 2015, ETUCE European Director Martin Rømer will travel to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to help seeking for a solution in the current severe labour conflict in the education sector. For many months, the social dialogue about several pending and urgent labour issues has been...

A Kenyan school made global headlines on Monday when children, some as young as seven, protesting against the seizure of their playground by property developers, were tear-gassed by police.

A new report by UNESCO and UNICEF reveals that ‘business as usual’ in education policies is the main obstacle in the way of realising universal primary and secondary education, especially when it comes to teenagers.

In response to the attacks that plunged France into mourning and reflection, the country’s education minister met with education unions, as well as parents and students, to identify the best ways of re-establishing shared values.

Keeping public services, including education, out of potential trade pacts is priority number one of unions from across Europe as they meet in Vienna to challenge the liberalisation agenda.

When Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kailash Satyarthi handed over a petition against child slavery to UN General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon, he did so with the support of half-a-million signatures and the backing of Education International.

Children’s entitlement to a high-quality education is at risk because of the widening pay gap between teaching and other professions, according to research commissioned by the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers.

Trade unions in Belgium have responded positively to the announcement of the Pact for Excellence in Education by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, one of Belgium’s three federal communities. However, the unions have also set out conditions for their support.

Even as the Global Monitoring Report prepares to launch this year’s Education For All results in April, it is already looking beyond to 2016 and how education lines up beside the next Sustainable Development Goals.

Education International’s Antonia Wulff explains why a teacher target is a necessary and perfectly feasible feature of the post-2015 education agenda in the latest Network for international policies and cooperation in education and training newsletter.

Trade unionists and the Ministry of Education have agreed to work together on a new initiative that supports children’s education at every level of their learning.

As the search continues for those responsible for yesterday’s horrific acts in Paris, trade unionists and other people across the democratic world have been forced to come to terms with a vicious attack on their right to freedom of expression.

The fight for decent living conditions and fair salaries are behind the closure of schools in Kenya following the walkout of the country’s public school teachers who are calling for an acceptable collective bargaining agreement.

The Danish Union of Teachers has secured significant endorsement for its actions in a recent ILO decision following a complaint made by the union last August about the government’s intervention in the collective bargaining process.

The number of unaccompanied children apprehended at the U.S. Southern border, which was 5,200 in 2012, has swelled to more than 52,000 in 2014, according to the resolution  recently adopted by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), entitled «International Humanitarian Crisis At The U.S. Border».

With only 12 months left to accomplish the Millennium Development Goals, set in 2000, the New Year comes with a wide range of challenges and opportunities for global education.

Over ten thousand trade union members, most of them public sector workers, along with youth groups and students, packed the streets of Kiev to rally against government cuts to social programmes.

As education quality suffers and teachers' salaries no longer provides for a decent living, "I tell young colleagues who take on a job on the Greek islands, that they better also learn how to fish."