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EI has been commended for its work in promoting quality education since its creation 20 years ago. The acclaim came from the UN Special Envoy for Global Education, Gordon Brown, a keynote speaker at the 41st EI Executive Board meeting held in Brussels from 19-21 March. Brown also called for...

EI has welcomed new figures released on 15 March by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). These figures show that it is possible to make basic education universal by 2015, despite a global funding gap which increased to $26 billion from $16 billion during the past three...

The 41st EI Executive Board, meeting on 19-21 March in Brussels, Belgium, has adopted the EI Global Gender Equality Action Plan (GEAP), and endorsed a second EI World Women’s Conference.

EI Executive Board holds its 41st meeting from 19-21 March in Brussels, Belgium. The Board is the democratic governing body that directs the affairs and activities of EI between its World Congresses. It ensures that those activities conform to the resolutions and decisions taken at each World Congress.

The third International Summit on the Teaching Profession, which brought together education ministers and officials, leaders of EI and of the teacher unions in the countries concerned, together with OECD officials in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) ended yesterday. They concluded that they had made significant progress in their discussions about the...

EI strongly encourages its affiliates, teachers and students to vote in the My World surveylaunched by the UN. This survey asks citizens from all over the world to share their thoughts on what priorities to include in the global development agenda beyond 2015. A good education is one of the...

The Joint Union Asbestos Committee (JUAC) has welcomed the spotlight focused on asbestos in schools at the Education Select Committee Inquiry into Asbestos in Schools on 13 March’s. EI’s UK affiliates, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT), and the...

Teacher evaluation is the main topic under review at the third International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP) held in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from 13-14 March.

The international assessment of student learning outcomes in higher education is wrought with difficulties and problems, EI has told anOrganisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) conference held from 11-12 March in Paris, France. The event’s theme was Measuring Learning Outcomes in Higher Education: Lessons Learnt from the Assessment of...

Faced with the government’s failure to live up to its promises to teachers, EI’s affiliate, Asociación Dominicana de Profesores y Profesoras (ADP), is preparing to step up its fight for decent working conditions for Dominican teachers.

On 7 March, American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten was placed in handcuffs and arrested along with 18 other activists during a protest against the closure of 29 public schools in Philadelphia which, according to Mayor Nutter and the School Reform Commission, are poorly performing schools.

EI has supported the school trade union representatives’ meeting organised by its Danish affiliate, the Danish Union of Teachers (DLF). The meeting on 5 March in Odense was aimed at protesting against the Government taking the teachers’ planning time.

This year, as they do each year, EI affiliates are organising and participating in local and national events to commemorate International Women’s Day on 8 March, and highlight ongoing challenges related to gender equality and women’s rights.

EI’s largest national affiliate in Norway, the Union of Education Norway (UEN), has participated in a post-2015 MDG consultation meeting in Oslo.

The Australian Education Union (AEU), one of EI’s national affiliates, has welcomed February’s release of the report from the Gonski Review of Funding for Australian Schooling. It explained that this report made 2012 a historic year for school funding reform in the country.

Following the three-day strike in public and private schools on 27, 28 February and 1 March, called by the Teachers’ Platform, the Minister for National Education and Vocational Training, Pierre Vanneur, has pledged to resume discussions aimed at improving the Haitian education system and giving greater recognition to the teaching...

EI’s largest national affiliate in Ghana, the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), has organised a workshop from 19-23 February in Accra in partnership with the Pan African Teachers’ Centre (PATC) and the Canadian Teachers Federation (CTF). At the event, teachers were urged to adopt a positive attitude towards reading...

The overwhelming majority of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) teachers have experienced bullying and harassment related to their sexuality during their careers. This is according to a conference organised by one of EI’s affiliates in England, NASUWT.