Standing with Teachers: 60 Years of Protecting the Profession, Advancing its Status, and Shaping Our Futures
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At the closing forum of Mongolia’s Go Public! Fund Education campaign held in the capital city, Ulaanbaatar, education unionists and stakeholders reaffirmed their shared commitment to strengthening public education, investing in teachers, and advancing social dialogue.
Building union power, winning for public education: Mongolia's Go Public! story
On 5 October 2026, education unions around the world will celebrate World Teachers’ Day, marking the 60th anniversary of the 1966 International Labour Organization (ILO)/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers .
Standing with Teachers: 60 Years of Protecting the Profession, Advancing its Status, and Shaping Our Futures
What Do AI Frameworks for Education Really Look Like? The capabilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and in particular Large Language Models like ChatGPT, Claude, or DeepSeek, are developing at extraordinary speed, accompanying by calls from some tech firm leaders to slow the pace and ask serious questions about regulation. Paralleling...
Are AI Frameworks complicit in turning schools into AI testing grounds and sites of extraction?
Artificial intelligence is here to stay, and as unionists, we should feel just as confident harnessing the power of AI as we do harnessing the power of our collective voices.
Artificial intelligence is here to stay
Educators, unions, civil society organisations and concerned citizens have secured a major victory for teachers, education support personnel, and school communities across England after the UK Government announced that it will fully fund this academic year's teacher pay award.
United Kingdom: Educators win full government funding for teacher pay rise
Following the disappointing outcome of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) replenishment meeting, education union leaders from around the world came together to demand urgent government action. Education International (EI) and its member organisations will intensify pressure on political leaders to fully fund public education and uphold every child’s right...
Education unions pledge to fight for and lead a new era of education financing