Articles from Mongolia
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Standards and working conditions 4 November 2025 Mongolia: Major union victory as persistent mobilisation and widely supported strike lead to substantial increase in teachers’ basic salary
After more than 13 weeks of strike and nine rounds of negotiations, the teachers’ strike in Mongolia has been called off following a favourable agreement between the Federation of Mongolian Education and Science Unions (FMESU) and Mongolia’s Ministry of Education. Teachers’ basic salary will increase by 50%.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 28 October 2025 North-Asian education unions mobilised for enhanced solidarity and cooperation to Go Public!
Leaders of Education International (EI) member organisations across North Asia have committed to “organise, organise, organise; day and night” and pledged to “strengthen solidarity across North Asia and to lay the foundations for ongoing cooperation.”
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Standards and working conditions 24 October 2025 Mongolia: Strike called by education trade union widely followed
Teachers and education support personnel (ESP) are on strike across the country since October 16th, 2025, urging the government of Mongolia to increase their basic salary to 3.5 million tugriks (around 840 euros) as well as the education budget for 2026.
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Standards and working conditions 10 October 2025 Mongolia: Amid ongoing educators’ sit-ins, trade union brings their demands to the Government
The peaceful sit-ins by teachers and education support personnel in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar are drawing national attention and growing solidarity from other sectors, such as the railway sector workers who have joined the protest in solidarity. Backed by the public strong support, the Federation of Mongolian Education and...
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Leading the profession 6 October 2025 Mongolia: Thousands of teachers and education support personnel rally to demand salary increase and adequate investment in the education
In Ulaanbaatar’s main square, thousands of teachers and education support personnel staged a peaceful demonstration in front of the Parliament building. Their core demand is to raise the basic salary of teachers to 3.5 million tugrik and allocate adequate funding for the education sector. Currently, teachers earn between 1.2 –...
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Standards and working conditions 11 March 2025 Education unions from Southeast Asia strategise next steps of the Go Public! Fund Education campaign
Education International (EI) member organisations from Indonesia, Cambodia, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines came together in Bangkok on March 7 to discuss and plan the next stage of the Go Public! Fund Education campaign in their countries and the region.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 26 June 2024 Mongolia: Campaign leads to salary increase for teachers and education workers and more support for students
Through a series of campaigns in the past year led by the Federation of Mongolian Education and Science Unions (FMESU) significant reforms across multiple educational sectors have led to a salary increase for teachers and education workers, more support for students’ well-being, and a focus on infrastructure for higher education.
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Equity and inclusion 21 June 2024 Mongolia: Major victory for students as union leads effort to increase funds for school meals
As part of its Go Public! Fund Education campaign, the Federation of Mongolian Education and Science Unions (FMESU) advocated for and won a government increase in financing for school meals in early childhood education to boost student well-being.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 18 June 2024 Mongolia: Union launches nationwide call to invest in education
The Federation of Mongolian Education and Science Unions (FMESU), Education International (EI) national affiliate, has held a series of events to call for respect for teachers’ rights and increased investment in education. It also addressed critical challenges in the education sector, such as teacher shortages, inadequate infrastructure, and the provision...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 26 January 2024 International Day of Education: Unionists celebrate the right to education by campaigning for quality public education for all
On January 24, the International Day of Education, education unionists from around the world came together to reaffirm their commitment to the universal right to education and to mark the first year of the Education International global campaign Go Public! Fund Education. The campaign is an urgent call for governments...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 16 October 2023 Mongolia: Federation of Mongolian Education and Science Unions demands investments in education and teachers
The demand of the Federation of Mongolian Education and Science Unions (FMESU) is clear: invest in teachers, invest in education.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 17 April 2023 Mongolia: FMESU demand just and fair salaries for teachers and education support personnel
Thousands of education workers answered the call of the Federation of Mongolian Education and Science Unions (FMESU) and peacefully demonstrated on April 6th in Mongolia's capital Ulaanbaatar to demand increased salaries for teachers and education support personnel.
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Young members 29 September 2022 Mongolia: Ongoing efforts towards trade union transformation and renewal
Following the recent launch of the research “Trade union transformation in the digital economy: the case of the Federation of Mongolian Education and Science Unions (FMESU)”, the Mongolian education union started embarking in activities to implement the three-year project “Trade union transformation and the digital economy”.
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Union renewal and development 29 July 2022 Mongolia: Educators committed to trade union renewal
The research “Trade union transformation in the digital economy: the case of the Federation of Mongolian Education and Science Unions (FMESU)” highlights the challenges the union faces related to the impact of the digital transition.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 September 2019 “Copyright Issues and Teachers' Dilemma in Asia Pacific”, by Dr. Robert Jeyakumar.
Dr. Robert Jeyakumar
I woke up in Budapest on a fine summer morning to deliver a lecture using materials I had prepared in Malaysia in accordance with copyright exceptions allowed in Malaysia. Just before the lecture, I was informed that my materials did not conform to copyright laws in the EU. Dismay! This...
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Trade union rights are human rights 6 May 2019 The VIIth Mongolian Teachers’ Congress reaffirms the importance to promote and invest in quality public education
Nearly 800 delegates from every corner of Mongolia participated in the VIIth Mongolian Teachers’ Congress, where the Prime Minister informed participants of the increase of the national budget allocated to the public education sector and teachers’ continuous professional development.
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Union growth 1 May 2017 This May Day, why not try solidarity?
As the occasion to celebrate and reaffirm the value and values of trade unions, from which their principles continue to inspire, today must also serve as a lens to carefully examine our societies and institutions.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 20 May 2016 Teacher unions push government to boost investment in education
Mongolian education unionists are urging their national public authorities to increase financing to the education system in an effort to improve quality and make education for all a reality.
Teacher unions push government to boost investment in education