Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4
10 October 2025
Lebanon: Go Public! Fund Education, from words to action
Informed by the recommendations of the UN High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession
(UNHLP), the Santiago Consensus
and new research focusing on the political economy of education in Lebanon, Education International (EI) member organizations in Lebanon are advocating in the framework of the Go Public! Fund Education
campaign for an...
Standards and working conditions
24 September 2025
France: unions form massive common front to fight austerity and defend high-quality, inclusive education
Responding to a call to strike issued by a broad alliance of unions, on 18 September French education workers mobilised in massive numbers against the budget proposals presented by the François Bayrou government, which has since resigned following the National Assembly’s vote of no confidence. The workers denounced the proposed...
#youngteachers “I owe my union activism to my students”, by Anthony Dowling (TUI, Ireland).
Anthony Dowling
If you are passing through Glasnevin Cemetery on the outskirts of Dublin City Centre, you may come across the noticeable yet simple gravestone of James Larkin. Engraved on it is ‘James Larkin 1876-1947, The Labour Leader’. Larkin’s Gravestone may be simple but the legacy he left behind is much more...