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On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Education International, which currently brings together the national education unions of 170 countries representing 32.5 million educators and education support staff, we have selected 25 lessons which educators and their organisations have learnt throughout history on education and democracy.

The World Bank, as well as being one of the biggest funders of education programmes, is a hugely influential provider of technical advice to education ministries around the world.

The World Bank's 2018 World Development Report on Education, Learning to Realise Education’s Promise (WDR), concluded with three recommended strategies - assess learning, act on evidence and align actors. Over the past six months, Education International has brought together teacher union leaders, academics and activists in a series of blogs...

The focus of the third EI World Women’s Conference was on the complexities of women’s path to, and experiences of professional leaders within education and in education unions.

Education International's Antonia Wulff explains that the Sustainable Development Goal 4 could be summarised as more education of a better quality for all, and that quality and equity must be at the centre of the 2030 Agenda.

Pearson, the British-based mega-publisher, testing company, and Third World edu-entrepreneur, has inordinate influence over education policy around the world, yet it also has serious vulnerabilities. Corporate over-reach generates inefficacies that alienate its customer base and contributed to “blowback” campaigns against the company. This essay explores the Pearson and neo-liberal threats...

The education goal, SDG 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all, is made up of 10 targets outlining the specific priorities and commitments on education – the Education 2030 Agenda. It includes targets on free primary and secondary education, early childhood and tertiary...

The present joint action programme is proposed by the Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions (OBESSU), the European Students’ Union (ESU), and Education International (EI) to their members and partners, in order to advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 related goals, which the United Nations...

In an era where investment in education is declining and myriad shortcuts are popping up, Education International presents its rights-based Roadmap to sustainable, predictable and principled education financing.

Your government adopted Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in September 2015 together with all other governments in the world. It is a universal agenda for sustainable development, ending poverty and hunger, ensuring quality education and health, gender equality and...

This paper was developed to provide context and background for the Education International Baltic Symposium on Human Rights and Values in Education which took place from 7 to 8 June 2016 in Riga, Latvia.

This discussion paper reviews the policy instrument of value-added measurement or modelling (VAM) and the implications the instrument has for teaching and learning in a global context. VAM is based on the assumption that it is possible to create adequately complex statistical models that capture the essential and universal factors...

This briefing note looks into the potential impacts of the TPP for the education sector based on the text released on 5 November 2015. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a comprehensive trade and investment agreement covering 40% of the global economy.

This policy paper challenges explicitly the narrow, instrumentalist view of education as solely teaching students to become skilled employees. Instead, it argues for a perspective on education that serves both the values of the society at local and global levels, as well as cultural, democratic, social, economic and environmental needs.

The Human and Trade Union Rights Policy Paper describes how human and trade union rights strengthen the work of education unions and provide a mandate for them to act on behalf of their members. This Policy Paper reflects the values and objectives promoted by EI through its constitution, policies and...

The EFA Global Monitoring Report, the International Task Force on Teachers for Education for All and Education International jointly produced an advocacy toolkit aiming to help teachers use evidence based recommendations for their advocacy.

Child labour remains a human rights scourge more than a decade into the 21st century, affecting 168 million children worldwide by the best estimates. It denies millions of children their basic rights to education and childhood, permanently scarring their lives and their future as productive adults and citizens, those of...

The second EI World Women’s Conference – Women in Trade Unions and in Education: From Words to Action - took place in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, April 7th-9th 2014, and focused on some of the issues that negatively affect women within education trade unions, and women and girls within education...