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Meeting in the historic city of Sevilla, Spain, last week, the World Confederation of Teachers (WCT) approved the agreement negotiated by the two Executive Boards to join with EI in a new integrated structure.

The Jan/Feb 2006 issue of Worlds of Education, Education International’s bi-monthly magazine, is now available.

Global Union Federations (GUFs) held their Annual Conference in Brussels 10-11 January. General Secretaries of the 10 GUFs, representing many millions of employees in the main sectors of the global economy, dealt with an impressive list of issues facing the global trade union movement.

An EI delegation led by Deputy General Secretary, Elie Jouen, participated in the World Social Forum held recently in Bamako, Mali. Two other forums will be organised soon, the first in Caracas, Venezuela and the second in Karachi, Pakistan.

Education International, the world’s largest federation of teachers' unions with 29 million members worldwide today announced a partnership with the Global Learning Portal. This powerful online network and set of collaborative tools will benefit teachers, administrators, and education policymakers around the world.

For EI's President, teachers' unions would gain from building alliances with civil society representatives to advance the cause of quality public education worldwide.

Together, the Global Union Federations (including EI), the ICFTU and the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD, and the World Confederation of Labour (WCL) issued a statement to the 2005 World Summit of the UN General Assembly, to be held in New York, USA, from 14 – 16 September...

The ICFTU [1] Executive Board, meeting in Brussels 21-22 June, took the historic decision to hold a special Congress in 2006 to form a new Global Trade Union Centre. The meeting was chaired by the new ICFTU President, Sharan Burrow, a former Vice-President of EI.