How will we ensure effective and equitable educational recovery from COVID19? Education International and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) developed ten key principles which every country can use.
Education must be transformed to catalyse the fight against climate change and to support a just transition to a more sustainable world. This Manifesto outlines the profession’s vision for quality climate change education and the policy framework necessary to implement it.
Update 23 April 2021 | In a resolution adopted at its 57th meeting, held virtually, the Education International Executive Board condemned the coup d’état in Myanmar, the refusal to accept the results of the election, the violence against protesters and strikers and the arrest of elected leaders, trade unionists and others opposing the regime. It called for full respect for human and trade union rights and a return to the path of democracy. It urged the international community and national governments to respond urgentl...
My friend and colleague and one of the education giants of our time, Mary Hatwood Futrell, wrote this on the passing of Nelson Mandela in 2013: “We pause to mark the distance we’ve come and keep focus on what’s yet to cover. One thing seems certain as the need for equity persists: the push for progress will be equally persistent.”
Leaders and members of Kenya's education unions are struggling to respond to the post-election violence and unrest that have convulsed their country since late December. Francis M. Ng'ang'a, Secretary General of the Kenya National Union of Teachers, said that the union is working on an emergency programme to bring affected membe...
Gemoraw Kassa, General Secretary of the Ethiopian Teachers’ Association and about 30 other members of ETA, on Thursday, February 7th heard the shocking news that their appeal to the Supreme High Court was denied. The court upheld an earlier decision which ordered the ETA to hand over property, other assets, and its name – in oth...
Distinguished educator and teacher trade unionist Willard McGuire passed away on 2 February at his home in Minnesota. He was 79. McGuire served as president of the National Education Association, the largest education union in the United States, from 1979 to 1983. A devoted children's advocate, he used the power and influence of...
A four person EI delegation is currently in Ethiopia to enter into a dialogue with the Ethiopian authorities to press the case for the respect of trade union and human rights. The delegation is composed of the General Secretaries of the British and Ugandan teachers unions, respectively Steve SINNOTT and Teopista BIRUNGI MAYANJA,...
The Global Campaign for Education’s Congress was held in Sao Paulo, Brazil from 22-24 January, and attended by 300 participants. The opening ceremony was addressed by Luiz Dulci, Brazil's Minister for General Secretary of the Presidency, by Vernor Muñoz, the UN Special Rapporteur on Education Rights, and by a representative of t...
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