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Equity and inclusion Copyright limitations and exceptions for the use of digital materials in teaching and learning environments
Policy brief
7 November 2023The policy brief examines a broad range of empirical data and reveals the urgent need to intervene on current copyright laws to respond to teachers’ needs regarding access to and use of digital materials in the physical and online environments. It includes key recommendations that aim to enhance current international...
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Equity and inclusion Toolkit on Open Educational Materials for Higher Education Unions
Patricia Díaz Charquero, Virginia Rodés Paragarino
24 October 2023Teachers' unions, students, and academic support staff are key players in promoting social dialogue on access to study materials in higher education and fostering transformative action. This toolkit aims to provide unions with basic knowledge about Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education, as well as practical ideas and examples...
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Equity and inclusion Teachers and technology
Advocacy brief by Education International and the Global Education Monitoring Report
19 October 2023The Global Education Monitoring Report and Education International have developed an advocacy brief for teachers based on the 2023 GEM Report, Technology in education: A tool on whose terms?
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Equity and inclusion Pledging Guidance on Teachers and Teaching in Forced Displacement Situations
2023 Global Refugee Forum
3 October 2023In the lead up to the Global Refugee Forum (GRF) 2023, thematic task teams have been established within the GRF Education Alliance which brings together a range of stakeholders working together to operationalise the education-related provisions of the Global Compact on Refugees. Education International leads the GRF Education Alliance Task...
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Education support personnel Education International's 2nd World Education Support Personnel Conference - May 2023
Conference Report
10 August 2023Education International (EI) second World Education Support Personnel (ESP) conference, Building Union Power: Defending the Rights and Status of Education Support Personnel, took take place in Aveiro, Portugal on 16-18 May 2023.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Transforming Education Financing: a toolkit for activists
2 June 2023Transforming Education Financing: a toolkit for activists is produced by Education International together with the Global Campaign for Education and ActionAid International. The toolkit is aimed at both civil society organisations and teachers’ unions across the globe campaigning for increased public funding to ensure the fundamental right to education.
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Trade union rights are human rights Poised for the Future: Transformative Teaching for Global Engagement, Sustainability, and Digital Access
A Briefing by Education International for the International Summit on the Teaching Profession 2023
10 May 2023The 13th edition of the International Summit on the Teaching Profession brought together 22 countries to discuss how to strengthen the teaching profession and ensure all students have access to a quality education.
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Equity and inclusion Global Unions LGBTI Workers: Strategy Roundtable Report
3 April 2023The Global Unions LGBTI Workers project convened a strategy roundtable in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in early December 2022. Representatives of global union federations, their affiliated trade unions, labour movement solidarity organisations, and allies gathered at De Burcht, the former headquarters of the Diamond Workers Union, hosted by Mondiaal FNV and Netwerk...
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Union renewal and development Toolkit to Build Union Strength
For more Effective Education Unions
28 February 2023Education International has developed a "Toolkit to Build Union Strength – For more Effective Education Unions”. This toolkit enables each Education International member organisation to engage in a process of self-assessment, proposing that they experiment with new activities to strengthen their organisations.
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Trade union rights are human rights Trade union rights toolkit
8 December 2022To support education unions everywhere in their struggle to defend their members’ rights, Education International has developed the Trade Union Rights Toolkit. The toolkit aims to equip education unions to formulate cases when their rights are violated and defend their cases based on the fundamental rights of the global community.
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Equity and inclusion Building Momentum to End School-Related Gender-Based Violence in the Time of COVID-19
1 December 2022In 2021-22, Education International (EI), with the technical support of Gender at Work (G@W) and financial contribution from the National Education Association (NEA, USA) implemented a nine-month learning cycle to build further momentum among education unions in Africa to take action to end School-Related Gender-Based Violence (SRGBV).
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Equity and inclusion World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference on Education 2022
Conference Report
30 November 2022The World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference in Education (WIPCE) was held this year on the traditional lands of the Kaurna Nation, the original people of the Adelaide plains, at Tarndanya (place of the red kangaroo), Adelaide, Australia. WIPCE is the largest and most diverse Indigenous education forum in the world.
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Teach for the planet Education Unions for Climate Justice
Education International’s COP 27 Advocacy Toolkit
12 October 2022The 27th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), or COP 27 is taking place in Sharm El-Sheikh in November 2022.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 The Transforming Education Summit: A Toolkit for Education Unions
19 July 2022For the first time ever, the Heads of State of the world are meeting to discuss progress in education. Convened by the UN Secretary General, the Transforming Education Summit (TES) is taking place on 19 September 2022 in New York. It is a very important opportunity for us as education...
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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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Standards and working conditions Well-being and the education of the whole child
A background paper by the OECD and Education International for the Pre-Summit Seminar at the International Summit on the Teaching Profession 2022
10 May 2022Published in April 2021 by the OECD and Education International, the Ten Principles for Effective and Equitable Educational Recovery (hereinafter Principles) were intended to facilitate the collaboration of education authorities and the teaching profession, and their organisations, navigate the health crisis effectively and reshape education systems after the pandemic. The...
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Future of work in education The pandemic - moving forward: Governments and teacher unions working together to leave no-one behind
A briefing by Education International for the International Summit on the Teaching Profession 2022
9 May 2022Convened by Education International and the OECD, the International Summit on the Teaching Profession brings together governments and education unions in OECD countries in order to strengthen and support an informed and honest policy dialogue between and among elected representatives of the teaching profession and national government authorities.
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Democracy Schools shall be safe sanctuaries
Education International declaration on violent political and military attacks against education institutions, students, teachers, academics and all other education personnel
11 March 2022This declaration voices the collective demand by teachers and their unions worldwide that the international community take action to ensure that education is both protected in conflicts and enabled to realize its potential as a force for peace in the world.