Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4
8 September 2026
New PISA report reveals decline in student performance amid chronic teacher shortage and shrinking attention spans
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has released the latest edition of the Programme for International Student Assessment
(PISA). Following the unprecedented drop in performance recorded in 2022, learning outcomes have largely stagnated or continued to decline in many countries. Shorter attention spans, excessive use of AI, and...
Privatisation threatens young children’s rights: Unions and partners call for urgent public investment in early childhood education
Early childhood education (ECE) is increasingly recognised as a cornerstone of the right to education. Yet across the world, a widening gap between public commitments and public investment is allowing privatisation to prosper — often at the expense of children, families, and education workers.
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4
5 June 2026
Belgium: budget cuts to state education adopted in a denial of democracy
Despite strong public opposition and strike action in schools across the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (FWB) called by a united front of education unions, the FWB Parliament, meeting in a plenary session, voted in the early hours of 5 June to approve the government’s planned cuts in education spending.