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Standards and working conditions Teacher and Education Support Personnel Well-being - Vital for Education
Policy Brief
8 July 2024This Briefing outlines the importance of teacher and education support personnel (ESP) wellbeing to high quality education. It sets out a road map for education unions and their members on how to ensure that educational jurisdictions put in place practical strategies for enhancing the wellbeing of all teachers and ESP....
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Equity and inclusion Gender, education, and a global view on the ‘crisis of care’
Saba Joshi
20 December 2023This policy brief focuses on the significance of care work in the global economy and the complexities of measuring its value, given its unpaid, invisible facets and the gendered nature of these forms of work. We seek to highlight the challenges educational professionals currently face and emphasize how the dynamics...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education Education versus austerity
Why public sector wage bill constraints undermine teachers and public education systems -and must end
24 June 2022At least 69 million more teachers are needed by 2030 to achieve the sustainable development goal on education, yet around the word existing teachers face low pay and deteriorating conditions, affecting the status of the profession. There is a clear common cause uniting low pay and teacher shortages – both...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education E-commerce, Education and Copyright: A Policy Brief
by Michael Geist
13 June 2022In the context of the World Trade Organisation’s 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) in Geneva on 12-15 June 2022, Education International calls on governments to deliver a comprehensive intellectual property waiver on Covid-19 vaccines, treatments and tests and warns of the risk of increasing commercialisation of education and research due to...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 15 March 2021 Education of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons in the Context of COVID-19: The Education for Life Project in Uganda and South Sudan
Education of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons in the Context of COVID-19: The Education for Life Project in Uganda and South Sudan -
Fighting the commercialisation of education 24 April 2018 EI Education and Trade Update – March 2018
EI Education and Trade Update – March 2018 -
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 26 June 2017 GMR Policy Paper 31 : Aid to education is stagnating and not going to countries most in need
GMR Policy Paper 31 : Aid to education is stagnating and not going to countries most in need -
Union renewal and development 17 January 2017 Textbooks pave the way to sustainable development
Textbooks pave the way to sustainable development -
Union renewal and development 7 November 2016 EDUCATION AND TRADE (September 2016)
EDUCATION AND TRADE (September 2016) -
Union renewal and development 16 November 2015 EI Briefing Note on Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA)
EI Briefing Note on Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) -
Union renewal and development 8 June 2015 School-related gender-based violence is preventing the achievement of quality education for all
School-related gender-based violence is preventing the achievement of quality education for all -
Union renewal and development 8 May 2015 EI Brief - The Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA)
EI Brief - The Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) -
Union renewal and development 23 April 2015 Post-2015: Measuring the (real) scope of ambition
Post-2015: Measuring the (real) scope of ambition -
Union renewal and development 8 April 2015 Towards human rights norms and standards to assess privatisation in education
Towards human rights norms and standards to assess privatisation in education -
Union renewal and development 31 March 2015 GMR Policy Brief: Pricing the right to education: The cost of reaching new targets by 2030
GMR Policy Brief: Pricing the right to education: The cost of reaching new targets by 2030 -
Union renewal and development 25 March 2015 Post-2015 and Financing for Development: Debates Begin, Political Lines Emerge
Post-2015 and Financing for Development: Debates Begin, Political Lines Emerge -
Union renewal and development 16 December 2014 GMR Policy Brief - Wanted: Trained teachers to ensure every child’s right to primary education
GMR Policy Brief - Wanted: Trained teachers to ensure every child’s right to primary education -
Union renewal and development 15 December 2014 GMR Policy Brief: Increasing tax revenues to bridge the education financing gap
GMR Policy Brief: Increasing tax revenues to bridge the education financing gap