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Education For All

  1. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 23 April 2008

    Teachers give the World’s Biggest Lesson ever!

    As part of Global Action Week, today teachers all around the world are cooperating in an effort to set a world record for the biggest lesson ever taught.

    Teachers give the World’s Biggest Lesson ever!
  2. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 20 April 2008

    Global Action Week 2008 has arrived!

    Teachers' trade unions around the world are coordinating and participating in a huge variety of actions to show their support for quality Education For All.

    Global Action Week 2008 has arrived!
  3. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 11 April 2008

    Global Action Week is fast approaching!

    Global Action Week 2008 is fast approaching and will see the launch of activities to promote universal education.

    Global Action Week is fast approaching!
  4. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 9 April 2008

    Global Campaign for Education 3rd World Assembly & upcoming Global Action Week

    Diplomats, activists and educational sector representatives gathered for the Global Campaign for Education’s (GCE) 3rd World Assembly in January to work to advance Education For All (EFA). Unions, teachers, students and parents will continue this advocacy at grassroots level during the upcoming Global Action Week in April.

    Global Campaign for Education 3rd World Assembly & upcoming Global Action Week
  5. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 14 March 2008

    Global Action Week 2008: It is not too late to get involved!

    Global Action Week 2008 is almost upon us! In a little over a month, EI affiliates and national coalitions of the Global Campaign for Education will highlight the need for universal quality education.

    Global Action Week 2008: It is not too late to get involved!
  6. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 March 2008

    EFA Global Monitoring Report 2008: Political will and national priority strongly needed

    “Time is of the essence: for the 72 million children out of school, for the one in five adults without basic literacy skills and for the many pupils who leave school without acquiring essential skills and knowledge.”

    EFA Global Monitoring Report 2008: Political will and national priority strongly needed
  7. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 1 February 2008

    Global Campaign for Education Congress concerned at lack of progress on Education For All

    The Global Campaign for Education’s Congress was held in Sao Paulo, Brazil from 22-24 January, and attended by 300 participants. The opening ceremony was addressed by Luiz Dulci, Brazil's Minister for General Secretary of the Presidency, by Vernor Muñoz, the UN Special Rapporteur on Education Rights, and by a representative...

    Global Campaign for Education Congress concerned at lack of progress on Education For All
  8. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 18 December 2007

    EI calls upon EFA Meeting to Pay More Attention to Teacher Training and Recruitment

    EI representatives attending the Seventh Meeting of the Education for All High Level Group held in Dakar, from 11-13 December, urged governments, UN agencies, bilateral and multilateral agencies, civil society organizations and other stakeholders attending the meeting to pay more attention to teacher training and recruitment.

    EI calls upon EFA Meeting to Pay More Attention to Teacher Training and Recruitment
  9. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 13 December 2007

    Global Action Week 2008: Quality Education to End Exclusion!

    Global Action Week 2008 will take place from 21-27 April. To mark it, the Global Campaign for Education (GCE) is calling for civil society to mobilise around the theme of "Quality Education to End Exclusion".

    Global Action Week 2008: Quality Education to End Exclusion!
  10. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 13 December 2007

    Africa: New EI study pinpoints teacher shortage as a major threat to EFA

    A critical shortage of properly trained and qualified teachers is threatening the achievement of Education for All targets and Millennium Development Goals by 2015, according to a new study by Education International.

    Africa: New EI study pinpoints teacher shortage as a major threat to EFA
  11. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 13 December 2007

    Global Monitoring Report on EFA 2008 published

    The Global Monitoring Report is the single most important annual publication on Education for All and a key resource for teachers’ unions. At the midway point toward the 2015 target date for achieving Education for All (EFA) the report summarises the progress made to date and the many challenges that...

    Global Monitoring Report on EFA 2008 published
  12. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 19 October 2007

    No schools, no teachers for millions of children in DRC

    With millions of children out of school and parents unable to pay school fees, EI urges the Democratic Republic of Congo to invest in quality public education and to comply with core labour standards.

    No schools, no teachers for millions of children in DRC
  13. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 17 October 2007

    CCNGO: EI represents teacher unions at discussions on Education for All

    Achieving the Education for All (EFA) goals can only become a reality through the intensive involvement of civil society including the teachers’ unions. But are governments really involving the unions? EI and a large number of civil society organisations convened in Dakar in September to discuss the status quo on...

    CCNGO: EI represents teacher unions at discussions on Education for All
  14. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 16 October 2007

    Thousands sing out against poverty

    Today, 17 October 2007, the Poverty Requiem will resonate around the globe.

    Thousands sing out against poverty