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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.”
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Human Rights in China has learned that Liu Shaokun, a teacher who was sentenced to one year of Re-education Through Labour after posting online his photographs of collapsed school buildings in earthquake-affected areas, was released by the authorities on 24 September. He will now be permitted to serve his sentence outside the la...
Read MoreThe President of the Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe, who was illegally arrested and held incommunicado under appalling conditions, has now been released from prison.
Read MoreTwo new members of the Executive Board of Education International have been appointed as a result of two resignations. The replacements were nominated by their member organisations and appointed by the Executive Board in accordance with the provisions of the EI Constitution.
Read MoreThe world has seen a dramatic and disturbing increase in attacks against teachers over the past three years, according to the author of a global study commissioned by UNESCO. Journalist and researcher Brendan O’Malley presented his findings to members of the Executive Board of Education International, meeting this week in Brusse...
Read MoreOn behalf of teachers and education workers around the world, Education International expresses its heartfelt condolences to the families and school communities of the victims of yesterday's tragic school shooting in Finland.
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