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Unite for Quality Education

  1. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 January 2015

    Belgium: Unions ready to participate in Pact for Excellence in Education

    Trade unions in Belgium have responded positively to the announcement of the Pact for Excellence in Education by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, one of Belgium’s three federal communities. However, the unions have also set out conditions for their support.

    Belgium: Unions ready to participate in Pact for Excellence in Education
  2. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 January 2015

    Belgium: Unions ready to participate in Pact for Excellence in Education

    Trade unions in Belgium have responded positively to the announcement of the Pact for Excellence in Education by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, one of Belgium’s three federal communities. However, the unions have also set out conditions for their support.

    Belgium: Unions ready to participate in Pact for Excellence in Education
  3. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 5 January 2015

    New Year’s resolution: 365 opportunities to make education fairer and better

    With only 12 months left to accomplish the Millennium Development Goals, set in 2000, the New Year comes with a wide range of challenges and opportunities for global education.

    New Year’s resolution: 365 opportunities to make education fairer and better
  4. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 18 December 2014

    Worlds of Education: New online edition available now!

    The 44th issue of Education International’s on-line magazine, Worlds of Education, features articles by prominent academics highlighting the crucial role of teachers in the international education policy arena.

    Worlds of Education: New online edition available now!
  5. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 26 November 2014

    The future of the teaching profession discussed in Vienna

    While in Brussels earlier today, European Commission President Jean-Claude Junker announced a heavyweight plan to kick-start growth in the European Union, educators assembled in Vienna urged Commission officials present there to ensure that the education sector would especially benefit from these investments.

    The future of the teaching profession discussed in Vienna
  6. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 5 November 2014

    The Francophone trade union movement mobilising for quality education!

    Local and global concerns about and commitments to education were presented to the Education Minister of Senegal by Francophone education unions affiliated to Education International (EI).

    The Francophone trade union movement mobilising for quality education!
  7. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 3 November 2014

    Georgia: Trade union pushes for quality education and teachers

    Quality education, teachers’ training, and teachers’ living and working conditions were all debated at the 7th National Congress of the Educators and Scientists’ Free Trade Union of Georgia (ESFTUG), an affiliate of Education International (EI).

    Georgia: Trade union pushes for quality education and teachers
  8. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 24 October 2014

    Ukraine: national protest defends teachers and quality education

    With a united voice, trade unions across various sectors are condemning new regulations that may lead to decreasing teacher salaries, job cuts throughout education, and school closures across Ukraine.

    Ukraine: national protest defends teachers and quality education
  9. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 9 October 2014

    Photo action: a mosaic of teaching situations

    On World Teachers’ Day, Education International celebrated the raffle of its first world-wide photo action. The awards have gone out to Russia, Trinidad and Tobago, and Ghana.

    Photo action: a mosaic of teaching situations
  10. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 7 October 2014

    Paris: Quality education receives royal recognition

    The worlds of education and monarchy came together today as the UNESCO-Hamdan Prize was awarded to four organisations, including Education International, for their work and commitment to teachers.

    Paris: Quality education receives royal recognition
  11. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 7 October 2014

    Paris: Quality education receives royal recognition

    The worlds of education and monarchy came together today as the UNESCO-Hamdan Prize was awarded to four organisations, including Education International, for their work and commitment to teachers.

    Paris: Quality education receives royal recognition
  12. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 6 October 2014

    Paris: ‘Teaching today’ the focus of World Teachers Day

    For its 20th anniversary, World Teachers Day centres its attention on improving the working and living conditions of teachers today to pave the way to a better tomorrow for education.

    Paris: ‘Teaching today’ the focus of World Teachers Day
  13. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 3 October 2014

    New documentary highlights daily commitment of teachers around the world

    Dawn is breaking. Teachers around the world begin their day... While each of the respective regions these teachers live in has its distinctive features, its diversity of landscape, culture and history, a common desire unites them all: to impart knowledge to those they teach, to help them reach their full...

    New documentary highlights daily commitment of teachers around the world
  14. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2 October 2014

    New York: Meet-the-teacher day takes on international flavour

    A role reversal took place last week when six teachers from around the world had the chance to visit local classrooms to see how schools in the Big Apple differ from their own.

    New York: Meet-the-teacher day takes on international flavour
  15. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 26 September 2014

    New York: EI calls on the UN to deliver the promise of quality education

    The voices of 30 million teachers are hard to ignore, especially after they called upon the UN yesterday in New York to make sure quality education remains a top priority.

    New York: EI calls on the UN to deliver the promise of quality education
  16. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 26 September 2014

    Teachers take centre stage in New York

    When the United Nations convenes its annual General Assembly, long-winded speeches and policy talk usually own the day, which wasn't the case when global education leaders and students were treated to a programme organised by Education International that combined practice and policy and saw teachers take the same stage as...

    Teachers take centre stage in New York
  17. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 September 2014

    Fiji: Three-day tour to end Unite campaign

    Teacher unions in Fiji have come together in a three-day tour to mark the end of the Unite for Quality Education (Unite) campaign.

    Fiji: Three-day tour to end Unite campaign