We bring together our member organisations to discuss and share experiences, good practices and ideas on responding to collective challenges. Together we are building the education unions of the future: mass participation organisations that reflect the diverse interests and identities of their members and offer educators a multitude of ways to engage and contribute.
Teachers in Northern Uganda are set to use information and communication technologies to improve the way they teach and their students learn, following a donation of equipment they received from Education International and Oxfam Novib.
Uganda: teachers get ‘teched out’ to improve teaching and learning
An eight-week online course giving students from around the world the chance to earn a higher education certificate on Worker’s Rights in the Global Economy, a blend of economics, human rights and international law.
Online course on workers’ rights open for students across the globe
Security forces have ended a deadly siege at the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, in north western Pakistan, after a group of militants stormed the school as morning classes were getting underway.
Attack on Pakistan university leaves scores dead, injured
Education International has learned that members of its Quebec affiliate were among the 29 people killed during last weekend’s attack on a hotel by gunmen in Ouagadougou.
Canadian educators killed in deadly Burkina Faso attacks
With development cooperation facing new funding challenges, education unions are being forced to redefine a strategy based on self-funded initiatives, while continuing to push for increased financial commitments from governments.
Education unions face new development cooperation challenges
In the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris, which have taken the lives of at least 129 and injured more than 300, Education International has conveyed its solidarity with the people of France.
Education International stands with France
Sporting 12 new members, Education International’s Executive Board is ready to get down to business as it prepares to convene in Brussels for the first time since the World Congress in Ottawa.
A plethora of new faces ready to tackle ambitious education agenda
Sporting 12 new members, Education International’s Executive Board is ready to get down to business as it prepares to convene in Brussels for the first time since the World Congress in Ottawa.
A plethora of new faces ready to tackle ambitious education agenda
Strong, healthy education systems are possible when governments include teachers’ unions in policy decision making was the message Education International made clear to Britain’s education stakeholders recently in London.
Stronger union and government relations the answer to creating better education systems
Even amidst reports that show the increasing challenges facing education, especially refugee students and teachers, education unions from Iraq and abroad are focused on finding sustainable solutions, despite constant uncertainty facing the war torn country.
Iraq: teacher unions work to maintain education as conflict continues
Change was in the air during the Union of Education Norway’s congress this week as delegates elected a former teacher from Oslo as the organisation’s new president for at least the next four years.
Norwegian teachers’ union elects new president to take the helm
This week’s announcement by the American president that he and his administration acknowledge that current high-stakes standardized testing does not work may be the first step to returning quality learning to classrooms.
Obama’s admission that high-stakes testing doesn’t work a positive step forward
Education International’s African committee is convening with a focus on the two major challenges that hamper quality education on the continent: lack of school security and the urgent need for funding.
Security and funding at the core of African regional committee
Education International has offered heartfelt condolences to its Turkish affiliate, the Education and Science Workers’ Union of Turkey, after eight of its activists were confirmed killed in bomb attacks that struck Ankara over the weekend.
Turkey: EI condemns horrific attack on peace and democracy
The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize honouring the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet for its role in helping build democracy following the country’s revolution includes five of Education International’s very own affiliates.
Education International’s Tunisian affiliates celebrate Nobel Peace Prize
Education unions from twelve Arab countries met on 7 and 8 October in Beirut to establish a new Arab organisation to promote education quality, the status of teachers and democratic development in their countries.
Arab teachers' unions establish new Arab Organization for Education
The Trade Union of Education and Science Workers of Ukraine has officially moved in to its new offices, built thanks to Education International’s Solidarity Fund, to which education unions worldwide contributed.
Ukraine: International solidarity helps union build new HQ