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With only 500 days left to get 58 million children into the classroom, A World at School has ramped up their #EducationCountdown campaign to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of universal education.

With the Ebola virus spreading sickness and fear throughout Western Africa, the president of Ghana has cancelled all international events, forcing November’s Higher Education and Research Conference to find a new host.

With the risk too serious to ignore, Education International will relocate its Unite for Quality Education event planned for Nairobi, Kenya as travel bans from Western Africa come into effect.

As the security situation in Iraq and Kurdistan continues to deteriorate, and teachers and unions increasingly become targets of Islamic State forces, Education International has reached into its solidarity fund to support its members under siege.

For the second consecutive year, the world’s top young leaders in education will be recognised by the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education.

Education International has returned to the defence of embattled Colombian academic, Miguel Angel Beltran, issuing a letter calling for an end to false accusations and a politically motivated ban barring him from universities.

Teacher unions - their roles and challenges – along with the activites of Education International were at the core of recent trade union workshops in Tajikistan.

A new study says that the Government’s free school programme implemented in disadvantaged areas is failing the poorest children it was created to serve in order to avoid paying for lunches.

Striking Norwegian teachers are set to receive a wave of professional support as thousands of colleagues around the country prepare to take their place on the picket lines.

The grandson of Estela de Carlotto, founder and head of Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo (Grandmothers of May Square) and recipient of the 2004 Human and Trade Union Rights Award of Education International, has been found.

The grandson of Estela de Carlotto, founder and head of Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo (Grandmothers of May Square), Argentina, and recipient of the 2004 Human and Trade Union Rights Award of Education International, has been found.

EI invites interested French-language professionals from around the world to participate in the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP)/UNESCO distance learning course on “Teacher management”, which will take place between 10 November 2014 and 30 January 2015.

This action allows the whole education community, educators as well as pupils and students, to express their support to the fundamental changes that are needed in the education system and the teaching profession in Chile.

The National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) and the National Union of Teachers (NUT), two EI national affiliates, have given a guarded welcome to the appointment of David Hoare as Chair of Ofsted, the official institution for inspecting schools.

EI’s Asia-Pacific regional office organised a successful workshop within the framework of the Unite for Quality Education (Unite) campaign in Ulaanbaatar from 23-25 July. The workshop was attended by representatives of seven districts and the Executive Committee of EI’s national affiliate, the Federation of Mongolian Education and Science Unions (FMESU).

On the occasion of the Day of Solidarity and Mobilisation, Senegalese teacher unions, united under the umbrella of the General Association of Teacher Unions (Grand cadre des syndicats de l'enseignement-GCSE), have called for the release of the girls abducted by Boko Haram.The Syndicat des professeurs du Sénégal (SYPROS), a national...

The General Union of Palestinian Teachers (GUPT) and Education International have agreed to establish a special fund for providing humanitarian assistance to Gazan teachers, their families and students who have become victims of the war between Israel and Hamas.

Universities in Australia are still far from granting equal opportunities to Indigenous students and staff, while indigenous programmes are under threat, according to Celeste Liddle, member and Indigenous Organiser at the Australian National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU). ‘Cuts to funding and the lack of inclusive spaces within universities are hampering...