Colombian workers are not alone
The mismatch between expectations and investment: New report on the Status of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)
The Bahia Declaration: Rising United for Gender Justice
Beyond a workforce crisis: Understanding the global teacher shortage through a structural lens
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News 5 November 2026 OECD data explains the need to invest in teachers and equity
Teacher shortages cannot be solved simply by recruiting more people into training programs, technology cannot replace the relationships at the heart of education, and education systems must do far more to counter inequality. These were among the key messages for education unions emerging from Education International (IE) webinar with the...
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Worlds of Education 5 November 2026 Together we can
David Edwards
As I travelled extensively over the last two years to places where the violent and despicable policies and actions of the Trump administration were most destructive, I struggled to convince those under attack (and those watching in horror) that there existed within the same country that elected him to a...
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Statements 2 November 2026 Colombian workers are not alone
CGU statement on the international solidarity mission to Colombia (Bogotá, 28-30 October 2026)
The Council of Global Unions (CGU), representing more than 210 million workers worldwide has undertaken an international solidarity mission to Colombia. We came to Colombia because trade unions around the world are alarmed by reports of increasing threats against trade unionists and social movement leaders, attacks on democratic freedoms, efforts...
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Worlds of Education 29 October 2026 Misogyny and an education system’s duty of care for students and for teachers
Correna Haythorpe
Misogyny among young people is no longer an issue that can be considered solely in terms of poor behaviour of some teenage boys who are stuck in dark pockets of the online world. For teachers, it is pervasive, growing rapidly, and the consequences are already being felt in schools across...
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News 28 October 2026 New Oxfam report: The world's super-rich are driving climate breakdown and cashing in on the crisis
Oxfam’s new report, Disaster Divide , exposes how the world's super-rich are fuelling the climate emergency through their outsized emissions, while shielding themselves from the consequences and, increasingly, profiting from the destruction. Meanwhile, millions of people struggle to recover from floods, fires, and rising food prices.
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Worlds of Education 27 October 2026 Beyond a workforce crisis: Understanding the global teacher shortage through a structural lens
Wangari Kinoti
Sixty years ago, a Special Intergovernmental Conference on the Status of Teachers recognised that teachers’ pay, working conditions, professional autonomy and public standing were inseparable from the quality of education provided to children, and explicitly identified teacher shortages as a problem requiring action. Why, sixty years later, are we confronting...
Beyond a workforce crisis: Understanding the global teacher shortage through a structural lens