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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 3 October 2025 World Teachers’ Day: African Union hosts global celebration in show of support for education and teachers
For the first time ever, the official event marking World Teachers’ Day is not held at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris but is hosted by the African Union in the framework of the Pan-African Conference on Teacher Education (PACTED) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on October 3rd.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 7 October 2025 New TALIS data: Report confirms need to act on global teacher shortage and working conditions
New data reveals a stark reality: One in five teachers under 30 years of age plan to leave the profession within the next five years. In some education systems, this figure rises to half of young teachers. This finding from the 2024 Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS), launched today,...
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Standards and working conditions 29 September 2025 Education voices | Collective union action in defence of collegial governance
Sinéad Kennedy
This testimony was collected as part of the research project entitled “In the eye of the storm: Higher education in an age of crises” conducted by Howard Stevenson, Maria Antonietta Vega Castillo, Melanie Bhend, and Vasiliki-Eleni Selechopoulou for Education International. The research report and executive summary are available here .
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 29 August 2025 Historic Santiago Consensus puts teachers at heart of education transformation
World Summit on Teachers delivers comprehensive framework demanding sustainable investment in teaching profession
Ministers, teacher unions and education leaders meeting at the World Summit on Teachers in Chile have adopted the Santiago Consensus , a comprehensive framework that commits governments to address the global shortage of 50 million teachers through concrete policy action.
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Democracy 20 June 2025 As war escalates, Education International calls for peace, dialogue, and respect for the right to education
Education International is deeply concerned about the escalating military aggression between Israel and Iran, and the continued bombing and starvation in Gaza.
As war escalates, Education International calls for peace, dialogue, and respect for the right to education