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From 31 October until 4 November, the Media Literacy Week in Canada will focus on hands-on media creation for children and teenagers, and highlight the importance of teaching them digital and media literacy skills.

Teachers from Kenya and Zambia are taking decisive steps to improve the quality of education in their schools through a project to help them assess and defend a better curriculum at primary and secondary level.

Education unionists have been at the forefront of the protest against the education reform, which they believe will lead to mass educator dismissals and a decrease in the quality of education.

World Teachers’ Day marks the 50th anniversary of the ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the status of teachers, which reaffirms the key role played by the teaching profession in the lives of their students and communities.

With the school term about to begin in Belgian Flanders, a new survey has revealed that nine out of 10 teachers will spend over €93 on average out of their own pocket on classroom materials.

After meeting with their country’s Vice-President, leaders of the teachers’ union Persatuan Guru Republik now have a political voice they can count on in their pursuit of a stronger teaching profession and quality education system.

Students, teachers and their unions have reason to celebrate after an appeals court reversed an earlier decision that severely weakened teacher tenure, stating that protecting teachers’ jobs does not rob students of quality education.

To take on greater leadership and decision-making roles within their unions, young teachers met recently in Dakar to boost both the recruitment and participation of young members.

Major UK education unions have welcomed the announcement by Government that baseline assessments will not now be used for measuring primary school student progress in subsequent years. This follows the publication of a comparative study on baseline assessments used by primary schools.

Filipino teachers are fighting the government’s ‘K to 12’ plan which they believe would increase education privatisation and commercialisation and be detrimental to access to quality education for all.

The new phase of the successful Quality Educators for All Project - “Every child needs a good teacher” - has been launched in Mali, aiming to improve teacher quality, teaching, and learning in the country.

The British public education service is haemorrhaging teachers, many of whom are either seeking better conditions outside of the United Kingdom or contemplating a career change to flee precarious employment.

Education International and partner organisation ASCD, a global community dedicated to excellence in learning, teaching, and leading, call for a clear definition of quality education that places the needs of the child at the fore.

During recent years, in the context of the financial crisis, unions have been asked to accept cutbacks and austerity measures with the argument there is no money for public services. Nevertheless, the study Global Corporate Taxation and Resources for Quality Public Services, commissioned by the EI Research Institute on behalf...

While all the talk and excitement in Davos is focused on the next industrial revolution, the key to quality education remains living, breathing classroom teachers, despite of all the digital hype.

The New Year will bring a wave of fresh investment in education across the continent of Africa, with significant announcements by some governments.

The Kurdistan Teachers’ Union has announced a major project to enhance the housing situation of Kurdish teachers and education employees, cooperating with over 20 companies in the construction sector to build 17,000 units of accommodation, mostly apartments.

A new UNESCO campaign is calling on teachers eager to become advocates for education to help lobby for progress toward achieving the new sustainable development agenda.