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News 7 November 2025 Japan: Urgent action needed to reduce teachers’ workload and increase education funding
Japan Teachers’ Union (JTU) brought together education stakeholders to discuss the concerning findings of TALIS 2024 regarding teachers’ difficult working conditions, especially the excessive workload, that fuel the teacher shortage in the country.
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News 7 November 2025 Successful teacher-led learning circles for formative assessment initiatives in Asia-Pacific
The learning event organised by the Education International Asia-Pacific (EIAP) office on teacher-led learning circles for formative assessment (T3LFA) aimed to take stock of progress and learning since project completion, identify successes, challenges, and gaps, co-create a roadmap for continued commitment to professional development and strengthen union advocacy for sustainable...
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Take action! 7 November 2025 🌍 Toolkit: Teach for the Planet at COP30
Education must be transformed to catalyse the fight against climate change and to support a just transition to a more sustainable world. Teachers are at the heart of greening education and have a crucial role to play when it comes to climate action.
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News 6 November 2025 United Nations Secretary-General calls on governments to invest in education and act to end the global teacher shortage
António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), highlighted the essential role of education as the foundation of social progress and called on governments and the international community to invest in education and implement the recommendations of the UN High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession to end the global teacher...
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News 6 November 2025 Iran: Conditional release of French education unionists brings great relief, but concerns remain for Iranian teacher trade unionists in jail
After 1,277 days of weaponised detention, French teacher trade unionists Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris are now safe within the French embassy in Tehran. While news of their conditional release was received with great joy by Education International and its member organisations, the Iranian government continues to persecute education unionists....
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Take action! 5 November 2025 Education International calls for renewed solidarity with educators and students in Palestine
Education International (EI) welcomes the ceasefire and peace agreement reached in the Gaza Strip in October but remains deeply concerned by the sustained military operations that have followed. The fragile pause offered by the agreement has not halted the cycle of violence that is devastating communities across Gaza. The ongoing...
Education International calls for renewed solidarity with educators and students in Palestine