With a new Director-General soon to be announced, Qian Tang, the head of the agency’s Education Sector and a leading candidate to succeed Irina Bokova, has been endorsed by the world’s largest teachers’ organisation.

Representatives from Education International and its member organisations have stressed the links between quality education and open educational resources at the second Open Educational Resources conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

With close to one million students back in Quebec schools, education trade unions are reminding the provincial government of its need to keep its promise to ensure quality education for all.