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On 19 September, education unions in Haiti participated in a national teachers’ rally for quality education. This is a move in support of Education International’s (EI) global campaign for quality education.

Di kami titigil! – We will never stop until we achieve quality education for all in the Philippines! This is the rallying slogan used by the National Alliance of Teachers and Office Workers (SMP-NATOW) to galvanise teachers, students and communities who took action on 7 September.

Hundreds of European education unionists and students are set to celebrate the end of the Unite for Quality Education Campaign and rally against the trade agreement being negotiated between the European Union and the USA.

Affiliates in Pakistan are promoting quality education throughout the country, and have joined the campaign’s culmination events by blending its slogans with Pakistan’s traditional culture and teachers’ daily lives.

Ebola continues to hit the education sector in Africa, according to two of EI’s affiliates in the region, the National Teachers’ Association of Liberia (NTAL) and the Sierra Leone Teachers’ Union (SLTU).

A national teachers’ union in Taiwan has called for the boycott of a major food manufacturer in a bid, it says, to protect Taiwanese people’s health, especially that of students.

Education and training policy has been seriously undermined in the new European Commission, according to the European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE), Education International’s (EI) European region.

Hundreds of educators, students and unionists are expected to fill the shore line of Sydney Harbour tomorrow as quality education is celebrated to mark the beginning of the end of the Unite Campaign.

Falsely convicted as a political prisoner, Mahdi Abu Deeb, of the Bahraini Teachers association has received the support of Education International’s General Secretary in a video message that stresses his courage fighting for freedom.

Looking to teachers’ experiences to address issues in education is an approach seldom used in policy circles, but unions in India are looking to buck the trend in order to achieve quality education.

Fears of a lost generation are sinking in in Spain after the publication of the latest OECD report on Education shows that one out of four young people does neither work nor study.

Promoting gender equality in unions, education, and society was the central theme at a recent workshop in Malaysia hosted by the Sarawak Teachers’ Union (STU).

When Education International embarks on its global Unite for Quality Education Campaign culmination tour this week, education leaders, teachers and students from around the world will push quality education to the top of the agenda.

In the face of international conventions protecting children from exploitation, Bolivia’s new labour law seeks to regulate rather than eliminate the practice.

As the world exits the economic crisis, a new report argues that education and skills will be critical to restoring long-term growth, tackling unemployment, promoting competitiveness, and nurturing more inclusive and cohesive societies.

EPNoSL is organizing its next Peer Learning Activity (PLA) in Nice, France. Interested stakeholders are welcomed to join the event that will be attended by members of the wider school leadership community, including policy makers, educational leaders (school principals and head teachers, and teacher educators), researchers, representatives of professional associations,...

To highlight how a literate society paves the way toward a positive future, UNESCO is making sustainable development the focus and theme to mark this year’s International Literacy Day.

On 22 September 2014, the EI initiative Unite for Quality Education Campaign reaches its peak in the European Region. On this special day, ETUCE is organising a Public Hearing on the Future of Quality Education, hosted by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in Brussels, to celebrate one year...